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Eine Frage des Maßstabes: Welche Faktoren und Prozesse bestimmen die Struktur von Lebensgemeinschaften in Fließgewässern?

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Source: GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, Volume 4, Number 3, 1995, pp. 137-145(9)

Publisher: oekom verlag

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.4.3.4

Main subjects of modern stream ecology are among others the structure and stability of benthic communities, by which is meant their taxonomic and functional composition, their spatial and temporal dynamies as well as the factors and processes that influence them. The hierarchical organization of running waters, which themselves are part of superior landscape structures, plays an important role. Spatial extensions and temporal persistences of organizational scales differ from each other by magnitudes. The differing factors and processes on every organizational scale also have an impact on the structure of benthic communities. Hence, distinct eeological questions require appropriate temporal and spatial scales and suitable methods. The present article focuses on these relationships.

Keywords: COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINATING FACTORS AND PROCESSES; HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF STREAM SYSTEMS; SPATIAL SCALE; STREAM ECOLOGY; TEMPORAL SCALE

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 May 1995

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