Habitat loss drives threshold response of benthic invertebrate communities to deposited sediment in agricultural streams

Abstract

Agricultural land uses can impact stream ecosystems by reducing suitable habitat, altering flows, and increasing inputs of diffuse pollutants including fine inorganic sediment (

Keywords

diffuse pollution; fine inorganic sediment; global change; nitrate; nonlinear response; riparian management; sedimentation; stream invertebrate communities; threshold impact

Published in

Ecological Applications
2013, volume: 23, number: 5, pages: 1036-1047

SLU Authors

• Burdon, Francis

  • University of Canterbury

UKÄ Subject classification

Ecology

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1890/12-1190.1

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/90121