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SUBMITTER: Dzubakova K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6227859 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dzubakova Katharine K Peter Hannes H Bertuzzo Enrico E Juez Carmelo C Franca Mário J MJ Rinaldo Andrea A Battin Tom J TJ
Biology letters 20181010 10
The loss of environmental heterogeneity threatens biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. It is therefore important to understand the relationship between environmental heterogeneity and spatial resilience as the capacity of ecological communities embedded in a landscape matrix to reorganize following disturbance. We experimented with phototrophic biofilms colonizing streambed landscapes differing in spatial heterogeneity and exposed to flow-induced disturbance. We show how streambed roughness a ...[more]