Impacts of multiple anthropogenic stressors on stream macroinvertebrate community composition and functional diversity.

ABSTRACT: Ensuring the provision of essential ecosystem services in systems affected by multiple stressors is a key challenge for theoretical and applied ecology. Trait-based approaches have increasingly been used in multiple-stressor research in freshwaters because they potentially provide a powerful method to explore the mechanisms underlying changes in populations and communities. Individual benthic macroinvertebrate traits associated with mobility, life history, morphology, and feeding habits are often used to determine how environmental drivers structure stream communities. However, to date multiple-stressor research on stream invertebrates has focused more on taxonomic than on functional metrics. We conducted a fully crossed, 4-factor experiment in 64 stream mesocosms fed by a pristine montane

SUBMITTER: Juvigny-Khenafou NPD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7790656 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature