Projected effects of Climate-change-induced flow alterations on stream macroinvertebrate abundances.

ABSTRACT: Global change has the potential to affect river flow conditions which are fundamental determinants of physical habitats. Predictions of the effects of flow alterations on aquatic biota have mostly been assessed based on species ecological traits (e.g., current preferences), which are difficult to link to quantitative discharge data. Alternatively, we used empirically derived predictive relationships for species' response to flow to assess the effect of flow alterations due to climate change in two contrasting central European river catchments. Predictive relationships were set up for 294 individual species based on (1) abundance data from 223 sampling sites in the Kinzig lower-mountainous catchment and 67 sites in the Treene lowland catchment, and (2) flow conditions at these sites describ

SUBMITTER: Kakouei K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5869304 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature