Macroinvertebrate relationships with water temperature and water flow in subtropical monsoon streams of Central China: Implications for climate change

Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 221-231

  Li, Fengqing ^a   Cai, Qinghua ^a   Jiang, Wanxiang ^a   Qu, Xiaodong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Macroinvertebrate; Water flow; Water temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MACROINVERTEBRATE; STREAMWATER; WATER FLOW; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CHINA;

EID: 84875983949     PISSN: 18639135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2012/0220     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Ballinger, A. & Lake, P. S., 2006: Energy and nutrient fluxes from rivers and streams into terrestrial food webs. - Mar. Res. 57: 15-28.
2. Barnett, T. P., Adam, J. C. & Lettenmaier, D. P., 2005: Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snowdominated regions. - Nature 438: 303-309.
3. Beniston, M., 2000: Environmental change in mountains and uplands. - Arnold, London.
4. Bradley, D. C. & Ormerod, S. J., 2001: Community persistence among upland stream invertebrates tracks the North Atlantic Oscillation. - J. Anil. Ecol. 70: 987-996.
5. Briers, R. A., Gee, J. H. R. & Geoghegan, R., 2004: Effects of the North Atlantic Oscillation on growth and phenology of stream insects. - Ecography 27: 811-817.
6. Brown, L. E., Hannah, D. M. & Milner, A. M., 2007: Vulnerability of alpine stream biodiversity to shrinking glaciers and snowpacks. - Glob. Change Biol. 13: 958-966.
7. Burgmer, T., Hillebrand, H. & Pfenninger, M., 2007: Effects of climate-driven temperature changes on the diversity of freshwater macroinvertebrates. - Oecologia 151: 93-103.
8. Collier, K. J. & Quinn, J. M., 2003: Land-use influences macroinvertebrate community response following a pulse disturbance. - Freshwat. Biol. 48: 1462-1481.
9. Daufresne, M., Roger, M. C., Capra, H. & Lamouroux, N., 2004: Longterm changes within the invertebrate and fish communities of the Upper Rhone River: effect of climatic factors. - Glob. Change Biol. 10: 124-140.
10. Dudgeon, D., 2007: Going with the flow: global warming and the challenge of sustaining river ecosystems in monsoonal Asia. - Water Sci. Technol. 7: 69-80.
11. Durance, I. & Ormerod, S. J., 2007: Climate change effects on upland stream macroinvertebrates over a 25-year period. - Glob. Change Biol. 13: 942-957.
12. Durance, I. & Ormerod, S. J., 2009: Trends in water quality and discharge offset long-term warming effects on river macroinvertebrates. - Freshwater Biol. 54: 388-455.
13. Elliott, J. M., Hurley, M. A. & Maberly, S. C., 2000: The emergence period of sea trout fry in a Lake District stream correlates with the North Atlantic Oscillation. - J. Fish Biol. 56: 208-210.
14. Fahrig, L., 2003: Effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. - Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 34: 487-515.
15. Fochetti, R., 2008: Global diversity of stoneflies (Plecoptera; Insecta) in freshwater. - Hydrobiologia 595: 365-377.
16. Haidekker, A. & Hering, D., 2008: Relationship between benthic insects (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Coleoptera, Trichoptera) and temperature in small and medium-sized streams in Germany: A multivariate study. - Aquat. Ecol. 42: 463-481.
17. Harte, J., Ostling, A., Green, J. L. & Kinzig, A., 2004: Climate change and extinction risk. - Nature 427: 145-148.
18. Heinrich, I., Weidner, K., Helle, G., Vos, H., Lindesay, J. & Banks, J. C. G., 2009: Interdecadal modulation of the relationship between ENSO, IPO and precipitation: insights from tree rings in Australia. - Clim. Dynam. 33: 63-73.
19. Hörmann, G., Köplin, N., Cai, Q. & Fohrer, N., 2009: Using a simple model as a tool to parametrize the SWAT model of the Xiangxi river in China. - Quat. Int. 208: 116-120.
20. Huang, X., Chen, W. & Cai, Q., 2000: Survey, observation and analysis of lake ecology. - Standards Press of China, Beijing.
21. IPCC, 2007: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
22. Jiang, T., Zhang, Q., Zhu, D. & Wu, Y., 2006: Yangtze floods and droughts (China) and teleconnections with ENSO activities (1470-2003). - Quat. Int. 144: 29-37.
23. Jiang, W., Cai, Q., Tang, T., Wu, N., Fu, X., Li, F. & Liu, R., 2008: Spatial distribution of macroinvertebrates in Xiangxi River. - Chin. J. Appl. Ecol. 19: 2443-2448.
24. Jones, P. D., 1988: The influence of ENSO on global temperatures. - Clim. Monit. 17: 80-89
25. Kawai, T., 1985: An Illustrated Book of Aquatic Insects of Japan. - Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
26. Klanderud, K. & Totland, O., 2005: Simulated climate change altered dominance hierarchies and diversity of an alpine biodiversity hotspot. - Ecology 86: 2047-2054.
27. Lake, P. S., 2000: Disturbance, patchiness, and diversity in streams. - J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 19: 573-592.
28. Li, F., Cai, Q., Fu, X. & Liu, J., 2009a: Construction of habitat suitability models (HSMs) for benthic macroinvertebrate and their applications to instream environmental flows - a case study in Xiangxi River of Three Gorges Reservior region, China. - Prog. Nat. Sci. 18: 1417-1424
29. Li, F., Cai, Q. & Liu, J., 2009b: Temperature-dependent growth and life cycle of Nemoura sichuanensis (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) in a Chinese mountain stream. - Int. Rev. Hydrobiol. 94: 595-608.
30. Li, F., Ye, L., Liu, R., Cao, M. & Cai, Q., 2007: Investigation on aquatic environmental factors in Xiangxi River watershed. - Ecol Sci, 26: 199-207.
31. Lotze, H. K. & Milewski, I., 2004: Two centuries of multiple human impacts and successive changes in a North Atlantic food web. - Ecol. Appl. 14: 1428-1447.
32. Lytle, D. A. & Poff, N. L., 2004: Adaptation to natural flow regimes. - Trends Ecol. Evol. 19: 94-100.
33. Monaghan, M. T., Robinson, C. T., Spaak, P. T. & Ward, J. V., 2005: Macroinvertebrate diversity in fragmented Alpine streams: implications for freshwater conservation. - Aquat. Sci. 67: 454-464.
34. Morse, J. C., Yang, L. & Tian, L., 1994: Aquatic insects of China useful for monitoring water quality. - Hohai University Press, Nanjing. Naiman, R. J. & Bilby, R. E., 2001: River ecology and management. - Springer, New York.
35. Park, W., Sturdevant, M., Orsi, J., Wertheimer, A., Fergusson, E., Heard, W. & Shirley, T., 2004: Interannual abundance patterns of copepods during an ENSO event in Icy Strait, southeastern Alaska. - Ices J. Mar. Sci. 61: 464-477.
36. Parmesan, C., 2006: Ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change. - Ann. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 37: 637-669.
37. Qu, X., Tang, T., Xie, Z., Ye, L., Li, D. & Cai, Q., 2005: Distribution of the macroinvertebrate communities in the Xiangxi River system and their relationship with environmental factors. - J. Ecol. 20: 233-238.
38. Rolim, S. G., Jesus R. M., Nascimento, H. E. M., Do Couto, H. T. Z. & Chambers, J. Q., 2005: Biomass change in an Atlantic tropical moist forest: the ENSO effect in permanent sample plots over a 22-year period. - Oecologia 142: 238-246.
39. Root, T. L., Price, J. T., Hall, K. R., Schneider, S. H., Rosenzweig, C. & Pounds, J. A., 2003: Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants. - Nature 421: 57-60.
40. Sandin, L., 2003: Benthic macroinvertebrates in Swedish streams: community structure, taxon richness, and environmental relations. - Ecography 26: 269-282.
41. Sellanes, J., Quiroga, E., Neira, C. & Gutiérrez, D., 2007: Changes of macrobenthos composition under different ENSO cycle conditions on the continental shelf off central Chile. - Cont. Shelf Res. 27: 1002-1016.
42. Stewart, I., Cayan, D. C. & Dettinger, M. D., 2004: Changes in snowmelt runoff timing in Western North America under a "business as usual" climate change scenario. - Clim. Change 62: 217-232.
43. Trenberth, K. E., 1997: The definition of El Niño. - B. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 78: 2771-2777.
44. Vannote, R. L., Minshall, G. L., Cummins, K. W., Sedell, J. R. & Gushing, E., 1980: The river continuum concept. - Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 37: 130-137.
45. Vass, K. K., Das, M. K., Srivastava, P. K. & Dey, S., 2009: Assessing the impact of climate change on inland fisheries in River Ganga and its plains in India. - Aquat. Ecosyst. Health Manage. 12: 138-151.
46. Ward, J. V., 1992: Temperature. - In: Ward, J. V. (ed.): Aquatic insect ecology. - Wiley, London.
47. Zhang, Q., Jiang, T., Gemmer, M. & Becker, S., 2005: Precipitation, temperature and runoff analysis from 1950 to 2002 in the Yangtze basin, China. - Hydrol. Sci. J. 50: 65-80.