Community structure, life histories and secondary production of stoneflies in two small mountain streams with different degree of forest cover

Submitted: 20 May 2015
Accepted: 5 October 2015
Published: 13 October 2015
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Our study examines community structure and nymphal biology (life cycles and secondary production) of stoneflies in two adjacent mountain streams with different degree of forest cover in the Prosiečanka River Basin (Chočské Vrchy Mts., West Carpathians). One of the streams has non-forested catchment, converted to meadows and pastures, while the other one has catchment with 60% covered by spruce forest. Differences in forest cover and in thermal regime of the streams were reflected by the difference of stonefly communities at their structural and functional level. Species Nemoura cinerea and Leuctra aurita created stonefly assemblage in non-forested stream, whereas Nemoura cinerea also occurred in naturally forested stream together with species Leuctra armata, Leuctra nigra, Leuctra prima, Siphonoperla neglecta and Arcynopteryx dichroa. All examined species had maximally annual life cycle and in eudominant species Nemoura cinerea one month shift was found in nymphal hatching and adult emergence between streams. Total secondary production of stoneflies in undisturbed stream (126.46 mg DW m-2 y-1) was more than two times higher than the production in non-forested stream (47.39 mg DW m-2 y-1). 

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Slovak Grant Agency VEGA

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Beracko, Pavel, Andrea Kušnírová, Michaela Partlová, and Jana Ciceková. 2015. “Community Structure, Life Histories and Secondary Production of Stoneflies in Two Small Mountain Streams With Different Degree of Forest Cover”. Journal of Limnology 75 (1). https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2015.1262.

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