TY - JOUR
T1 - Aquatic invertebrate communities exhibit both resistance and resilience to seasonal drying in an intermittent coastal stream
AU - Bogan, Michael T.
AU - Hwan, Jason L.
AU - Cervantes-Yoshida, Kristina
AU - Ponce, Julian
AU - Carlson, Stephanie M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Thanks to S?bastien Nussl? for statistical and coding assistance with linear mixed modeling efforts. MT Bogan was supported by a David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship. JL Hwan and K Yoshida-Cervantes were supported by NSF Graduate Research Fellowships (#0946797 and 1106400, respectively). J Ponce was supported by the UC Berkeley Biology Scholars Program. SM Carlson was supported by a Rose Hills Program grant from UC Berkeley. This manuscript was greatly improved by the comments of two anonymous reviewers.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
PY - 2017/9/1
Y1 - 2017/9/1
N2 - Species inhabiting intermittent streams must survive flow cessation and drying in situ (resistance) or recolonize temporary habitats when flow returns (resilience). Some studies have found that species are resistant to seasonal drying and can persist in small remnant pools after flow ceases, while others observed rapid declines in species richness when flow ceases. However, relatively few studies have demonstrated both resistance across dry seasons and resilience across multiple wet and dry cycles. Here, we quantify seasonal and interannual changes in aquatic invertebrate community structure from 2009 to 2012 in a coastal California intermittent stream. We predicted that temporary pools and riffles would have lower richness and distinct assemblages when compared to perennial pools, and that richness would decline across the dry season. Temporary riffles exhibited lower richness values than pools, but we found no richness differences, and small compositional differences, between perennial and temporary pools. Furthermore, invertebrate richness, density, and composition changed significantly in temporary pools only immediately before drying, when depths declined >80%. These results suggest that invertebrate communities at John West Fork were not only resilient (exhibiting recovery in <6 months) to flow cessation, but also were resistant to declining water levels across the dry season.
AB - Species inhabiting intermittent streams must survive flow cessation and drying in situ (resistance) or recolonize temporary habitats when flow returns (resilience). Some studies have found that species are resistant to seasonal drying and can persist in small remnant pools after flow ceases, while others observed rapid declines in species richness when flow ceases. However, relatively few studies have demonstrated both resistance across dry seasons and resilience across multiple wet and dry cycles. Here, we quantify seasonal and interannual changes in aquatic invertebrate community structure from 2009 to 2012 in a coastal California intermittent stream. We predicted that temporary pools and riffles would have lower richness and distinct assemblages when compared to perennial pools, and that richness would decline across the dry season. Temporary riffles exhibited lower richness values than pools, but we found no richness differences, and small compositional differences, between perennial and temporary pools. Furthermore, invertebrate richness, density, and composition changed significantly in temporary pools only immediately before drying, when depths declined >80%. These results suggest that invertebrate communities at John West Fork were not only resilient (exhibiting recovery in <6 months) to flow cessation, but also were resistant to declining water levels across the dry season.
KW - California
KW - Drought
KW - Recovery
KW - Seasonal variation
KW - Temporary habitat
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U2 - 10.1007/s10750-017-3205-4
DO - 10.1007/s10750-017-3205-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85018698562
VL - 799
SP - 123
EP - 133
JO - Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health
JF - Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health
SN - 0018-8158
IS - 1
ER -