Trait modality distribution of aquatic macrofauna communities as explained by pesticides and water chemistry.

ABSTRACT: Analyzing functional species' characteristics (species traits) that represent physiological, life history and morphological characteristics of species help understanding the impacts of various stressors on aquatic communities at field conditions. This research aimed to study the combined effects of pesticides and other environmental factors (temperature, dissolved oxygen, dissolved organic carbon, floating macrophytes cover, phosphate, nitrite, and nitrate) on the trait modality distribution of aquatic macrofauna communities. To this purpose, a field inventory was performed in a flower bulb growing area of the Netherlands with significant variation in pesticides pressures. Macrofauna community composition, water chemistry parameters and pesticide concentrations in ditches next to flower bu

SUBMITTER: Ieromina O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4921112 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature