Intermittent pool beds are permanent cyclic habitats with distinct wet, moist and dry phases.

ABSTRACT: Recognition that intermittent pools are a single habitat phase of an intermittent pool bed that cycles between aquatic and terrestrial habitat greatly enhances their usefulness for addressing general questions in ecology. The aquatic phase has served as a model system in many ecological studies, because it has distinct habitat boundaries in space and time and is an excellent experimental system, but the aquatic to terrestrial transition and terrestrial phase remain largely unstudied. We conducted a field experiment within six replicate natural intermittent pool beds to explore macroinvertebrate community dynamics during the transition from aquatic to terrestrial habitat and during the terrestrial phase. We monitored and compared macroinvertebrate communities within leaf packs that i) remai

SUBMITTER: Dell AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4171517 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature