ANALYSIS OF MACROINVERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGES IN RELATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN STREAMS
ANALYSIS OF MACROINVERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGES IN RELATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN STREAMS
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落基山溪流中大型无脊椎动物群落与环境梯度的关系分析
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2001
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B. Hill
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M. Griffith;P. Kaufmann;A. Herlihy;B. Hill
Using redundancy analysis (RDA) and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA), we assessed relationships among chemical and physical characteristics and macroinvertebrate assemblages at stream sites sampled by the Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (R-EMAP) in the mineral belt of the Southern Rockies Ecoregion in Colorado. We contrasted results of analyses where community structure was summarized as community metrics and analyses based on genera abundances. Our objective was to identify metrics or taxa diagnostic of major environmental stressors in these streams. When RDA was used to analyze the community metrics data, three axes were significant, accounting for 96% of the metric–environment relation. The first RDA axis was correlated with dissolved cadmium, sediment zinc, and total suspended solids, variables that indicate it was related to mining effects. The second and third RDA axes were correlated with water temperature, mean substrate embeddedness, mean canopy density at the bank...