Structuring functional groups of aquatic insects along the resistance/resilience axis when facing water flow changes.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how differences in intensity and frequency of hydrological disturbances affect the resistance and resilience of aquatic organisms is key to manage aquatic systems in a fast-changing world. Some aquatic insects have strategies that improve the permanence (resistance), while others use strategies that favor recolonization (resilience). Therefore, we carried out a manipulative experiment to understand the influence of functional characteristics of aquatic insects in their permanence and recolonization against hydrological disturbances in streams in the biodiversity hotspot of the Cerrado of Brazil. We placed 200 artificial substrates in five streams and submitted them to changing water flow regimes that differed both in frequency and intensity, and we observed the response of th

SUBMITTER: Godoy BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8956860 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature