INFLUENCE OF GRAIN-SIZE ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF TUBIFICID OLIGOCHAETE SPECIES

Authors
SAUTER G GUDE H
Citation
G. Sauter et H. Gude, INFLUENCE OF GRAIN-SIZE ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF TUBIFICID OLIGOCHAETE SPECIES, Hydrobiologia, 334(1-3), 1996, pp. 97-101
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Journal title
Hydrobiologia → ACNP
ISSN journal
00188158
Volume
334
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
97 - 101
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-8158(1996)334:1-3<97:IOGOTD>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
The grain size fraction less than 63 mu m is an important environmenta l factor affecting the distribution and abundance of many of the tubif icid species of Lake Constance. In substrates with a heterogeneous gra in size where tubificids can be selective many species occur almost ex clusively in their particle size preference range, which is highly spe cies specific.