期刊
POLAR BIOLOGY
卷 45, 期 2, 页码 285-296出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-021-02987-1
关键词
Glacial streams; Biometric analyses; Emergence; Nutrient supply; Climate change
资金
- University of Innsbruck
- Medical University of Innsbruck
- Research Council of Norway
- Svalbard Science Forum
The ecosystem of High Arctic streams, dominated by chironomids, is greatly influenced by extreme environmental conditions with water temperature and nutrient supply playing important roles in larval growth.
The fauna of streams in the High Arctic, dominated by chironomids, is shaped by extreme environmental conditions that represent the physiological limits for benthic invertebrates. Despite their ecological importance, little is known of chironomid life histories, development strategies and the key abiotic drivers limiting larval growth in High Arctic streams. We investigated the larval development and growth in three High Arctic rivers with contrasting water sources, thermal regimes and nutrient characteristics. Populations of the larvae of Diamesa bohemani (Goetghebuer 1932) and Diamesa aberrata (Lundbeck 1898) from two sampling occasions in July and August 2016 were morphometrically analysed to determine life history patterns and instream productivity. Water temperature differences lead to diverging development patterns on local spatial scales. The lowest larval growth was in a groundwater/snowmelt fed stream with low food concentration and quality, suggesting that stream productivity is not primarily water source dependant, but is dependent on the nutrient supply. Glacially influenced streams are clearly more productive than previously assumed, resulting in comparable secondary production to groundwater/snowmelt-fed streams.
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