Author： Death Russell G.
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 0018-8158
Source： Hydrobiologia, Vol.513, Iss.1-3, 2004-02, pp. : 171-182
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Abstract
Spatial resource overlap by benthic invertebrates was investigated between stones in 11 freshwater habitats (10 streams and a wind-swept lake shore) of similar physicochemical nature but different thermal and hydrologic stability in the Cass-Craigieburn region, New Zealand. Both overlap and breadth of stone use by the invertebrate taxa decreased as stability declined, in part because of the lower number of species available with which to share resources at unstable sites. Although there was no evidence for resource partitioning of stones, communities at stable sites and on more stable substrates differed from those that would have been expected to accumulate by chance colonisation alone. Stone assemblages at unstable sites are dominated by the same general suite of species well suited to surviving disturbances, while conditions at stable sites allow more specialised taxa to colonise individual stones differentially.
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