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INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF HYDROBIOLOGY
Volume 91, Issue 6, Pages 521-538Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.200510846
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epiphytic gastropods; Yangtze shallow lakes; community structure; empirical models; preference analyses
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Epiphytic gastropods in Yangtze lakes have suffered from large-scale declines of submersed macrophytes during past decades. To better understand what controls gastropod community, monthly investigations were carried out in four Yangtze lakes during December, 2001-March, 2003. Composed of 23 species belonging to Pulmonata and Prosobranchia, the community is characterized by the constitution of small individuals. The average density and biomass were 417 +/- 160 ind/m(2) and 18.05 +/- 7.43 g/m(2), with maxima a-round August. Submersed macrophyte biomass is shown to be the key factor affecting species number, density, and biomass of gastropods. Accordingly, a series of annual and seasonal models yielding high predictive powers were generated. Preference analyses demonstrated that pulmonates and prosobranchs with different respiratory organs prefer different macrophyte functional groups.
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