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Response of Chironomids (Diptera, Chironomidae) to Environmental Factors at Different Spatial Scales
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: Received: 16 March 2024 / Approved: 16 March 2024 / Online: 18 March 2024 (09:59:37 CET)
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Rossaro, B.; Marziali, L. Response of Chironomids (Diptera, Chironomidae) to Environmental Factors at Different Spatial Scales. Insects 2024, 15, 272. Rossaro, B.; Marziali, L. Response of Chironomids (Diptera, Chironomidae) to Environmental Factors at Different Spatial Scales. Insects 2024, 15, 272.
Abstract
Factors responsible of species distribution were intensively investigated in the past, including response at different spatial scales. The aim of the present research is to review the most relevant factors explaining chironomid species distribution focusing to factors operating at different spatial scales, such as latitude, longitude, altitude, water temperature, dissolved oxygen, nutrients acting at regional, country, water basin extension. Data including chironomid species abundances from different lentic and lotic waters from Italy and other surrounding countries were analyzed with different multivariate methods: partial canonical correspondence analysis and multiple discriminant analysis. Spatial analysis included univariate Moran’I correlograms, multivariate Mantel correlograms and Moran’s Eigenvectors Maps (MEM) calculation. The results confirmed previous conclusions, that is habitat type including different running waters reaches (kryal, krenal, rhthral, potamal) and different lake types is the most significant factor in separating chironomid assemblages and spatial factors act only as indirect influencers..
Keywords
aquatic insects; environmental factors; spatial factors
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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