Structural and functional responses of invertebrate communities to climate change and flow regulation in alpine catchments.

ABSTRACT: Understanding and predicting how biological communities respond to climate change is critical for assessing biodiversity vulnerability and guiding conservation efforts. Glacier- and snow-fed rivers are one of the most sensitive ecosystems to climate change, and can provide early warning of wider-scale changes. These rivers are frequently used for hydropower production but there is minimal understanding of how biological communities are influenced by climate change in a context of flow regulation. This study sheds light on this issue by disentangling structural (water temperature preference, taxonomic composition, alpha, beta and gamma diversities) and functional (functional traits, diversity, richness, evenness, dispersion and redundancy) effects of climate change in interaction with flow

SUBMITTER: Bruno D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6850064 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature