Connectivity and seasonality cause rapid taxonomic and functional trait succession within an invertebrate community after stream restoration.

ABSTRACT: General colonization concepts consent that a slow process of microhabitat formation and subsequent niche realization occurs during early stages after new habitat is released. Subsequently, only few species are able to colonize new habitat in the early onset of succession, while species richness increases steadily over time. Although most colonization studies have been performed in terrestrial ecosystems, running water ecosystems are equally or even more prone to colonization after disturbance due to their dynamic nature. We question how invertebrate succession patterns reconcile with general colonization concepts. With this study we provide insight into the colonization process in newly created lowland stream trajectories and answer how within-stream bio- and functional diversity develops

SUBMITTER: Westveer JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5967745 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature