Decreased habitat specialization in macroinvertebrate assemblages in anthropogenically disturbed streams

作者：Mykra Heikki; Heino Jani

来源：Ecological Complexity, 2017, 31: 181-188.

DOI：10.1016/j.ecocom.2017.07.002

• Abundance-occupancy relationship
• Community ecology
• Environmental degradation
• Niche width
• Outlying mean index
• Specialization

Abstract(#br)Habitat specialists are considered to be more sensitive to anthropogenic disturbance than habitat generalists. However, a number of studies have shown that habitat specialists can be tolerant to or even benefit from environmental degradation, suggesting that the effect of disturbance on...

• 出版日期2017-9