Factors Affecting Macroinvertebrate Distribution in a Mediterranean Intermittent Stream

LITERATURE CITED

• Boulton , A. J. and Lake , P. S. 1992 . The ecology of two intermittent streams in Victoria, Australia. III. Temporal changes in faunal composition . Freshwater Biol. , 27 : 123 – 138 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cummins , K. W. , Wilzback , M. A. , Gates , D. M. , Perry , J. B. and Tagliaferri , W. B. 1989 . Shredders and riparian vegetation . BioScience , 39 : 24 – 30 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Delucchi , C. M. 1988 . Comparison of community structure among streams with different temporal flow regimes . Can. J. Zool. , 66 : 579 – 586 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fisher , S. G. , Gray , L. J. , Grimm , N. B. and Busch , D. E. 1982 . Temporal succession in a desert stream ecosystem following flash flooding . Ecol. Monogr. , 52 : 93 – 110 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gasith , A. and Resh , V. H. 1999 . Streams in Mediterranean climate regions: abiotic influences and biotic responses to predictable seasonal events . Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. , 30 : 51 – 81 .
   Google Scholar
• Giller , P. S and Gee , J. H.R. 1987 . “ The analysis of community organization: the influence of equilibrium, scale and terminology. ” . In Organization of Communities: Past and Present Edited by: Gee , J. H.R. and Giller , P. S. 519 – 542 . Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Publications .
   Google Scholar
• Home , J. K. and Schneider , D. C. 1995 . Spatial variance in ecology . Oikos , 74 : 18 – 26 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hutchinson , G. E. 1957 . Concluding remarks . Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology , 22 : 415 – 427 .
   Google Scholar
• Johnson , S. L. and Vaughn , C. C. 1995 . A hierarchical study of macroinvertebrate recolonization of a disturbed patches along a longitudinal gradient in a prairie river . Freshwater Biol. , 34 : 531 – 540 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lake , P. S. 2000 . Disturbance, patchiness, and diversity in streams . J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. , 19 : 573 – 592 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Levin , S. A. 1992 . The problem of pattern and scale in ecology . Ecology , 73 : 1943 – 1967 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mackay , R. J. and Kalff , J. 1973 . Ecology of two related species of caddis fly larvae in the organic substrate in a woodland stream . Ecology , 54 : 499 – 511 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Molina , C. M. , Vidal-Abarca , R. and Suarez , M. L. 1994 . “ Floods in arid south-east Spanish areas: a historical and environmental review. ” . In Coping with Floods. Edited by: Rossi , G. 271 – 278 . The Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers .
   Google Scholar
• Pinna , M. , Fonnesu , A. , Sangiorgio , F. and Basset , A. 2004 . Influence of summer drought on spatial patterns of resource availability and detritus processing in Mediterranean stream sub-basin (Sardinia, Italy) . International Review of Hydrobiology , 89 : 484 – 499 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pires , A. M. , Cowx , I. G. and Coelho , M. M. 1999 . Seasonal changes in fish community structure of intermittent streams in the middle reaches of the Guadiana Basin (Portugal) . J. Fish Biol. , 54 : 235 – 249 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Poff , N. L. 1997 . Landscape filters and species traits: toward mechanistic understanding and prediction in stream ecology . J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. , 16 : 391 – 409 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Poff , N. L. and Ward , J. V. 1989 . Implications of streamflow variability and predictability for lotic community structure: a regional analysis of streamflow patterns . Can. J. Fish Aquat. Sci. , 46 : 1805 – 1817 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rabeni , C. F. and Minshall , G. W. 1977 . Factors affecting microdistribution of stream benthic insects . Oikos , 29 : 33 – 43 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Resh , V. N. , Brown , A. V. , Covich , A. P. , M.E , Gurtz. , Li , H. W. , Minshall , G. W. , Reice , S. R. , Sheldon , A. L. , Wallace , J. B. and Wissmar , R. C. 1988 . The role of disturbance in stream ecology . J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. , 7 : 433 – 455 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sheldon , F. , Boulton , A. J. and Puckridge , J. T. 2002 . Conservation value of variable connectivity: aquatic invertebrate assemblages of channel and floodplain habitats of a central Australian arid-zone river, Cooper Creek . Biological Conservation , 103 : 13 – 31 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Scrimgeour , G. J. and Winterbourn , M. J. 1989 . Effects of floods on epilithon and benthic macroinvertebrate populations in an unstable New Zealand river . Hydrobiologia , 171 : 33 – 44 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sousa , W. P. 1984 . The role of disturbance in natural communities . Ann. Review Ecol. Syst. , 15 : 353 – 391 .
   Google Scholar
• Southwood , T. R. E. 1988 . Tactics, strategies and templets . Oikos , 52 : 3 – 18 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Steams , S. C. 1989 . Trade-offs in life history evolution . Functional Ecology , 3 : 259 – 268 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• ter Braak , C. J. F. 1987 . -1992. CANOCO—a FORTRAN program for Canonical Community Ordination. Microcomputer Power, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A
   Google Scholar
• Vannote , R. L. , Minshall , G. W. , Cummins , K. W. , Sedell , J. R. and Cushing , C. E . 1980 . The river continuum concept . Can. J. Fish Aquat. Sci. , 37 : 130 – 137 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Williams , D. D. and Hynes , H. B.N. 1976 . The recolonization mechanisms of stream benthos . Oikos , 27 : 265 – 272 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar