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- Title
Impacts of Eucalyptus globulus Plantations on Physiology and Population Densities of Invertebrates Inhabiting Iberian Atlantic Streams.
- Authors
Aitor Larrañaga; Ana Basaguren; Jesús Pozo
- Abstract
The aim of our study was to evaluate the effects of Eucalyptusplantations on population and biochemistry parameters of 3 stream invertebrates. The shredder Echinogammarus spp. had significantly lower densities, proportion of adults and lower accumulation rates of mass, lipid, carbon and nitrogen in eucalypt sites than in native deciduous sites. For the shredder Sericostoma pyrenaicum Pictet similar densities were found in both site types, but mass accumulation rate was again lower in eucalypt sites than in the native ones. Contrastingly, density of the collectorgrazer Habroleptoides confusaSartori and Jacob was higher in eucalypt sites than in native sites and maximum body length and protein accumulation rate was better explained by soluble reactive phosphorus content in the water than with eucalypt cover. © 2009 WILEYVCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
- Subjects
IBERIAN Peninsula; ATLANTIC Ocean Region; EUCALYPTUS globulus; PLANTATIONS; POPULATION density; RIVER ecology; INVERTEBRATES; BIOCHEMISTRY; ECHINOGAMMARUS; BIOACCUMULATION; PICTETIA
- Publication
International Review of Hydrobiology, 2009, Vol 94, Issue 4, p497
- ISSN
1434-2944
- Publication type
Article