Macrobenthic communities in water bodies and streams of Svalbard, Norway
Author
Chertoprud, Mikhail V.
Author
Palatov, Dmitry M.
Author
Dimante-Deimantovica, Inta
text
Journal of Natural History
2017
2017-11-22
51
47 - 48
2809
2825
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2017.1395092
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2017.1395092
1464-5262
5184004
10.
Metriocnemus
gr.
fuscipes
. The community is typical for moss and rocky bottoms in small semi-flowing waters (pools interconnected with streams and springs, and low current streams overgrown with moss).
Silt-associated macrobenthic communities
Those communities are associated with soft bottoms and burrowing species dominance of chironomids (
Chironomidae
and
Tanypodinae
subfamilies).