Spatial and temporal trends in stream macroinvertebrate communities: the influence of catchment disturbance |
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Authors: | Carl Richards G. Wayne Minshall |
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Affiliation: | (1) Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota-Duluth, 5013 Miller Trunk Highway, 55811 Duluth, MN, USA;(2) Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, 83209 Pocatello, ID, USA |
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Abstract: | Macroinvertebrate communities of five headwater streams in catchments disturbed by wildfire were compared with five similar streams with no catchment disturbance. Over the five years of observation, communities in disturbed streams were more similar to one another than they were to reference streams. Communities in disturbed streams exhibited more year-to-year variation than reference streams, although some indication of decreasing variation was evident through time, and species richness was greater in reference streams than disturbed streams. No increasing trend in richness over time was observed in disturbed streams. Stability of the relative abundance structure and persistence of dominant taxa through time may be characteristic of temperate streams over moderate time intervals. Local effects of catchment-wide disturbance have persistent effects that alter these trends. |
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Keywords: | disturbance recovery fire streams stability macroinvertebrates watershed |
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