Influence of thermal regime and land use on benthic invertebrate communities inhabiting headwater streams exposed to contrasted shading

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 505, Issue , 2015, Pages 1112-1126

  Dohet, Alain ^a   Hlúbiková, Daša ^a   Wetzel, Carlos E ^a   L'Hoste, Lionel ^a   Iffly, Jean François ^a   Hoffmann, Lucien ^a   Ector, Luc ^a  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Aquatic insects; Climate change; Cold stenothermy; Headwater streams; Riparian buffer zone

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RIVERS; RUNOFF; TEMPERATURE;

AQUATIC INSECTS; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; COLD WATER TEMPERATURES; COLD-STENOTHERMY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HEADWATER STREAM; RIPARIAN BUFFER ZONES;

RIVER POLLUTION;

BENTHOS; BUFFER ZONE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HEADWATER; INSECT; LAND USE; RIPARIAN ZONE; STREAMWATER; THERMAL REGIME;

AGAPETUS FUSCIPES; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECDYONURUS VENOSUS; EPHEMEROPTERA; HABROLEPTOIDES CONFUSA; LAND USE; LEUCTRA; NONHUMAN; ODONTOCERUM ALBICORNE; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PH; PLANT SHADING; PLECOPTERA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRECIPITATION; RHITHROGENA SEMICOLORATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; STREAM (RIVER); SYNAGAPETUS IRIDIPENNIS; TINODES ROSTOCKI; TRICHOPTERA; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATES; DATA; ECOSYSTEMS; INSECTS; POLLUTION;

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84909992750     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.10.077     Document Type: Article

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