Establishing habitat-specific indicator species in Tierra del Fuego with freshwater macroinvertebrates

• Published in: New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
• Main Authors: Anderson, Christopher Brian, Johnson, Montana, Lopez, María Eugenia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis
• Subjects: AQUATIC INSECTS; BIOINDICATORS; PATAGONIA; STREAM ECOLOGY; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Austral; Patagonia; Argentina; Lopez; Beaver Pond; Beaver Ponds; Pond Lake; Springtail; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/63417

As a tool to understand Tierra del Fuego’s basic ecology and detect changes due to human pressures, this study develops habitat bioindicators. We compared the freshwater benthic macroinvertebrates at 61 study sites in six habitat types: grassland streams, urbanised streams, forested streams, beaver...