@misc{10481/99871,
year = {2012},
month = {11},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/99871},
abstract = {In this work we present the results of a one-year study on the macroinvertebrate community in an
intermittent stream in southern Spain. We have studied the taxonomic composition, diversity and food
web monthly in order to consider temporal variability in these parameters. More than 60 macroinver-
tebrate taxa have been recorded in the stream, but they do not cohabit at the same time. Many of them
join the community at the beginning of the wet period. Afterwards, some new taxa incorporate but some
others disappear. This leads to huge fluctuations in the diversity of the community and in the food web
of different sampling dates. These variations are linked to environmental disturbances, mainly to flow
peaks and minimums. From a relatively well structured, but simple, food web at the beginning of the
wet period, it can be seen how several trophic levels disappear with time, and how several organisms
change or extend their trophic function within it. We relate these variations to the intermediate disturb-
ance hypothesis and discuss the resilience of the community of this intermittent stream},
keywords = {community},
keywords = {drought},
keywords = {macroinvertebrates},
keywords = {Functional Feeding Groups},
keywords = {Shannon-Wiener’s index},
keywords = {Simpson’s inde},
title = {Diversity patterns and food web structure in a Mediterranean intermittent stream},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/iroh.201201541},
author = {López Rodríguez, Manuel Jesús and Peralta Maraver, Ignacio Fernando and Gaetani, Brunella and Sainz-Cantero Caparrós, Carmen Elisa and Fochetti, Romolo and Tierno De Figueroa, José Manuel},
}