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Seasonal Dynamics and Factors Shaping Aquatic Insect Assemblages in Mountain Streams of the Pannonian Lowland Ecoregion.

Viktorija Ergović, Dubravka Čerba, Bojana Tubić, Boris Novaković, Miran Koh, Zlatko Mihaljević

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Viktorija ErgovićDepartment of Biology, University of Osijek, Cara Hadrijana 8/a, 31000 Osijek, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0003-4580-3221
Dubravka ČerbaDepartment of Assessment and Aquatic Ecosystems Research, National Water Reference Laboratory of Slovakia, Water Research Institute, Nábr. arm. gen. L. Svobodu 5 (7), 81249 Bratislava, Slovakia.
Bojana TubićDepartment for Hydroecology and Water Protection, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Bulevar despota Stefana 142, 11108 Belgrade, Serbia.ORCID 0000-0003-2050-177X
Boris NovakovićNational Laboratory, Serbian Environmental Protection Agency, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Žabljačka 10a, 11160 Belgrade, Serbia.ORCID 0000-0003-4846-6371
Miran KohDepartment of Biology, University of Osijek, Cara Hadrijana 8/a, 31000 Osijek, Croatia.
Zlatko MihaljevićDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Horvatovac 102a, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0003-4122-2884

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Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia projects number: 3105-13
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Abstract

This study focused on the aquatic insect orders that serve as biological indicators. Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera, Coleoptera, and Odonata were studied with their relationships to physical, chemical, hydrological and morphological variables in 14 streams on three Croatian mountains: Papuk, Medvednica and Psunj. From 675 samples collected in three dominant sediment microhabitats (e.g., macrolithal and mesolithal) in each stream, we identified 130 macroinvertebrate taxa. The most abundant group was Ephemeroptera (36 taxa). Aquatic insect assemblages between Papuk and Psunj showed higher similarity due to the geographical proximity of these two mountains, which is expressed as spatial connectivity. In spring, greater variability and diversity of investigated aquatic insects were observed due to the phenology of studied insects. The combination of environmental and morphological properties (e.g., oxygen concentration and substrate type) had the most significant influence on shaping the assemblage of aquatic insects of Psunj, while morphological properties were the most important in shaping aquatic insect assemblages on Papuk (e.g., streambed width) and Medvednica (e.g., elevation).

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Coleopteracommunity structureCroatiaEPTfunctional feeding groupsOdonatastream macrozoobenthos

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