Incorporating the hyporheic zone within the river discontinuum: Longitudinal patterns of subsurface copepod assemblages in an Alpine stream

Limnologica

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 288-296

  Di Lorenzo, Tiziana ^a   Stoch, Fabio ^b   Galassi, Diana M P ^b  

^a CNR Istituto per Lo Studio Degli Ecosistemi   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active exchange describers; Alpine stream; Copepods; Hyporheic zone; River discontinuum

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CRUSTACEAN; HYPORHEIC ZONE; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; STREAMWATER;

COPEPODA;

EID: 84876407185     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.limno.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Autorità di Bacino dell'Adige, 2010. Piano di Gestione del Distretto Idrografico delle Alpi Orientali. (accessed 25.01.12). http://www.alpiorientali.it/documenti/premessa.html.
2. Anderson M.J. A new method for non-parametric multivariate analysis of variance. Austral. Ecol. 2001, 26:32-46.
3. Anderson M.J. PERMANOVA: A FORTRAN Computer Program for Permutational Multivariate Analysis of Variance 2005, Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
4. Bou C., Rouch R. Un nouveau champ de recherches sur la faune aquatique souterraine. C. R. Acad. Sci. 1967, 265:369-370.
5. Boulton A.J., Datry T., Kasahara T., Mutz M., Stanford J.A. Ecology and management of the hyporheic zone: stream-groundwater interactions of running waters and their floodplains. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 2010, 29(1):26-40.
6. Boulton A.J., Findlay S., Marmonier P., Stanley E.H., Valett H.M. The functional significance of the hyporheic zone in streams and rivers. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 1998, 29:59-81.
7. Brooks S.S., Boulton A.J. Recolonization dynamics of benthic macroinvertebrates after artificial and natural disturbances in an Australian temporary stream. Aust. J. Mar. Freshw. Res. 1991, 42:295-308.
8. Brunke M., Gonser T. Hyporheic invertebrates-the clinal nature of interstitial communities structured by hydrological exchange and environmental gradients. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 1999, 16(3):344-362.
9. Buffington J.M., Tonina D. Hyporheic exchange in mountain rivers II: effects of channel morphology on mechanics, scales, and rates of exchange. Geogr. Compass 2009, 3(3):1038-1062.
10. Clarke K.R., Gorley R.N. PRIMER v6.1: User Manual/Tutorial 2006, PRIMER-E, Plymouth, UK.
11. Dole-Olivier M.-J. Surface water-groundwater exchanges in three dimensions on a backwater of the Rhône River. Freshw. Biol. 1998, 40:93-109.
12. Dole-Olivier M.-J. The hyporheic refuge hypothesis reconsidered: a review of hydrological aspects. Mar. Freshw. Res. 2011, 62(11):1281-1302.
13. Findlay S. Importance of surface-subsurface exchange in stream ecosystems: the hyporheic zone. Limnol. Oceanogr. 1995, 40(1):159-164.
14. Galassi D.M.P. Groundwater copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda): diversity patterns over ecological and evolutionary scales. Hydrobiologia 2001, 453/454:227-253.
15. Galassi D.M.P., Huys R., Reid J.W. Diversity, ecology and evolution of groundwater copepods. Freshw. Biol. 2009, 54:691-708.
16. Hedger R.D., Dodson J.J., Bergeron N.E., Caron F. Quantifying the effectiveness of regional habitat quality index models for predicting densities of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). Ecol. Freshw. Fish 2004, 13:266-275.
17. Hoehn E., Cirpka O.A. Assessing hyporheic zone dynamics in two alluvial flood plains of the Southern Alps using water temperature and tracers. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss. 2006, 3:335-364.
18. Kelson K.I., Wells S.G. Geologic influences on fluvial hydrology and bedload transport in small mountainous watersheds, northern New Mexico, U.S.A. Earth Surf. Proc. Landforms 1989, 14:671-690.
19. Lafont M., Durbec A., Ille C. Oligochaete worms as biological describers of the interaction between surface and groundwaters: a first synthesis. Regul. Rivers: Res. Manage. 1992, 7:65-73.
20. Lafont M., Malard F. Oligochaete communities in the hyporheic zone of a glacial river, the Roseg River, Switzerland. Hydrobiologia 2001, 463:75-81.
21. Lafont M., Vivier A. Oligochaete assemblages in the hyporheic zone and coarse surface sediments: their importance for understanding of ecological functioning of watercourses. Hydrobiologia 2006, 564:171-181.
22. Malard F., Galassi D., Lafont M., Dolédec S., Ward J.V. Longitudinal patterns of invertebrates in the hyporheic zone of a glacial river. Freshw. Biol. 2003, 48:1709-1725.
23. Malard F., Tockner K., Dole-Olivier M.-J., Ward J.V. A landscape perspective of surface-subsurface hydrological exchanges in river corridors. Freshw. Biol. 2002, 47:621-640.
24. Manwell B.R., Ryan M.C. Chloride as an indicator of non-point source contaminant migration in a shallow alluvial aquifer. Water Qual. Res. J. 2006, 41(4):383-397.
25. Poole G.C. Fluvial landscape ecology: addressing uniqueness within the river discontinuum. Freshw. Biol. 2002, 47:641-660.
26. Provincia di Trento, 2004. Piano Generale di Utilizzazione dell'Acqua Pubblica. (accessed 01.25.12). http://www.gis.provincia.tn.it/Pdf/Pguap/Documenti_Piano/I3_1.pdf.
27. Rouch R., Danielopol D.L. Species richness of microcrustacea in subterranean freshwater habitats. Comparative analysis and approximate evaluation. Int. Rev. Ges. Hydrobiol. 1997, 82:121-145.
28. Schmidt S.I., Hahn H.J., Hatton T.J., Humpreys W.F. Do faunal assemblages reflect the exchange intensity in groundwater zones?. Hydrobiologia 2007, 583:1-19.
29. Schmidt S.I., Hellweg J., Hahn H.J., Hatton T.J., Humpreys W.F. Does groundwater influence the sediment fauna beneath a small, sandy stream?. Limnologica 2007, 37:208-225.
30. Stanford J.A., Ward J.V. An ecosystem perspective of alluvial rivers: connectivity and the hyporheic corridor. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 1993, 12:48-60.
31. ter Braak C.J.F., Šmilauer P. CANOCO Reference Manual and CanoDraw for Windows User's Guide: Software for Canonical Community Ordination (Version 4.5) 2002, Microcomputer Power, Ithaca, NY, USA.
32. Tonina D., Buffington J.M. Hyporheic exchange in mountain rivers, I: mechanics and environmental effects. Geogr. Compass 2009, 3(3):1063-1086.
33. Ward J.V., Stanford J.A. The serial discontinuity concept: extending the model to floodplain rivers. Regul. Rivers: Res. Manage. 1995, 10:159-168.
34. Ward J.V., Viens J.A. Ecotones of riverine ecosystems: role and typology, spatio-temporal dynamics, and river regulation. Ecohydrol. Hydrobiol. 2001, 1:25-36.
35. Ward J.V., Voelz N.J. Gradient analysis of interstitial meiofauna along a longitudinal stream profile. Stygologia 1990, 5:93-99.
36. Ward J.V., Voelz N.J. Groundwater Fauna of the South Platte River system, Colorado 1994, 391-423. Academic Press, San Diego. J. Gibert, D.L. Danielopol, J.A. Stanford (Eds.).
37. Winemiller K.O., Flecker A.S., Hoeinghaus D.J. Patch dynamics and environmental heterogeneity in lotic ecosystems. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 2010, 29(1):84-99.
38. Winter T.C. Interaction of ground water and surface water. Proceedings of the Ground-Water/Surface-Water Interactions Workshop 2000, 15-19.