Responses of macroinvertebrates to dryingdisturbance: A test of the hyporheic refuge hypothesis

在本研究中，我们展示了河床下潜流带大型无脊椎动物群落的群落结构。当地表水发生干燥时，几个常见类群的种群密度增加。我们的研究结果表明，在干旱事件中，下潜带是无脊椎动物的避难所，因此下潜带应该是生态系统保护的目标栖息地。

In this study, we demonstrated the community structure of lotic macroinvetebrate assemblages in hyporheic zone below streambed.Population densities of several common taxa were found to increase in the hyporheic zone when the drying of surface water occurred. Our results suggested that hyporheic zone served as a refugia for invertebrate during drying event and thus hyporheic zone shouldbe a target habitat of lotic ecosystem conservation.