Ecological Preferences and Indication Potential of Freshwater Bryophytes-Insights from Croatian Watercourses.

ABSTRACT: A comprehensive survey of Croatian watercourses covering the whole of the national territory and investigating inherent watercourse heterogeneity was conducted to explore the ecological responses of the most frequent freshwater bryophytes with respect to water chemistry variables and land use within the catchment area. Direct multivariate ordination (CCA) of vegetation data paired with 18 environmental variables revealed that freshwater bryophytes and their assemblages were segregated along the gradients of water chemistry and the proportion of natural and urban area within the catchment. Generalized additive models (GAM) were employed to explore the ecological responses of individual species. The results showed that most of the investigated species preferred natural, clean, well-oxygenate

SUBMITTER: Rimac A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9788454 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature