Dragonflies community assembly in artificial habitats: Glimpses from field and manipulative experiments.

ABSTRACT: Several factors act on community structure, so determining species composition and abundance patterns. Core processes operating at local scales, such as species-environment matching and species interactions, shape observed assemblages. Artificial habitats (simplified structure) are useful systems for assessing the main factors affecting community composition and disentangling their assembly rules. Drinking troughs (brickwork tanks for free-ranging cattle watering) are widespread in Italy and represent a suitable aquatic habitat for colonization by various aquatic organisms. Dragonflies larvae are usually found in drinking troughs and often exhibit strong species interactions and striking community assembly patterns. Our primary aim was to search for Odonata communities exhibiting non-rando

SUBMITTER: Cerini F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6588213 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature