期刊
WATER
卷 13, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/w13081028
关键词
riparian zone; riparian vegetation; riparian buffer strip; stream macroinvertebrates; agriculture; taxonomic composition; functional traits
资金
- CROSSLINK project
- Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS) [2016-01945, 2017-00472]
- Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
- Research Council of Norway [264499]
- Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO), Belgium [G0H6516N]
- Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation (CCCDI-UEFISCDI) [BiodivERsA3-2015-49-CROSSLINK]
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany [FKZ: 01LC1621A]
- Formas [2016-01945, 2017-00472] Funding Source: Formas
The study revealed that forested riparian buffers are associated with greater shading, increased gravel content in stream substrates, and faster flow velocities. It also found that riparian vegetation types influence the structural and functional composition of stream invertebrate communities, with implications for stream health and cross-ecosystem connectivity.
Riparian zones form the interface between stream and terrestrial ecosystems and play a key role through their vegetation structure in determining stream biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and regulating human impacts, such as warming, nutrient enrichment and sedimentation. We assessed how differing riparian vegetation types influence the structural and functional composition (based on species traits) of stream invertebrate communities in agricultural catchments. We characterized riparian and stream habitat conditions and sampled stream invertebrate communities in 10 independent site pairs, each comprising one unbuffered reach lacking woody riparian vegetation and a second downstream reach with a woody riparian buffer. Forested riparian buffers were associated with greater shading, increased gravel content in stream substrates and faster flow velocities. We detected changes in invertebrate taxonomic composition in response to buffer presence, with an increase in sensitive Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera (EPT) taxa and increases in key invertebrate species traits, including species with preference for gravel substrates and aerial active dispersal as adults. Riparian vegetation independently explained most variation in taxa composition, whereas riparian and instream habitat together explained most variation in functional composition. Our results highlight how changes in stream invertebrate trait distributions may indirectly reflect differences in riparian habitat, with implications for stream health and cross-ecosystem connectivity.
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