Evaluation of the Relationship between Stream Habitat Quality and Taxa and Trait Richness and Diversity in Piedmont Streams in North Carolina
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Sites
2.2. Aquatic Insects
2.3. Habitat Diversity
2.4. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Taxa and Trait Richness and Diversity
3.2. Microhabitats
4. Discussion
4.1. Taxa and Trait Patterns at the Watershed Scale
4.2. Taxa and Trait Patterns at the Reach Scale
5. Application to Stream Restorations
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Taxa Metric | Kendall’s Rank Correlation Tau | |||
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Microhabitats | Taxa Richness (S) | Taxa Shannon Diversity (H′) | Trait Richness (S) | Trait Shannon Diversity (H′) |
Pool | 0.363 ** | 0.277 * | 0.285 | 0.270 |
Run | 0.423 ** | 0.250 | 0.446 ** | 0.312 * |
Backwater | 0.359 ** | 0.117 | 0.172 | 0.032 |
Root Wad | 0.186 | 0.118 | 0.089 | 0.069 |
Undercut Bank | 0.071 | 0.241 | 0.028 | 0.136 |
Leaf Pack | 0.345 ** | 0.357 ** | 0.229 | 0.29 * |
Small Wood | 0.117 | 0.188 | 0.290 * | 0.274 * |
Large Wood | 0.228 | 0.210 | 0.185 | 0.171 |
Riffle Index | 0.489 ** | 0.261 | 0.558 *** | 0.341 ** |
Habitat Diversity | 0.383 ** | 0.331 * | 0.155 | 0.210 |
Goodness of Fit | Regression Model | ||
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Adj. R2 | p | ||
Taxa Richness | 0.674 | 1.3 × 10−6 | 22.443 + 2.942 (RiffleInd) + 0.486 (LgWood) − 6.728 (Run) + 0.697 (LeafPack) |
Taxa Diversity (H′) | 0.4144 | 6.9 × 10−4 | 2.248 + 0.026 (LeafPack) + 0.024 (RiffleInd) + 0.010 (UndercutBank) |
Trait Richness | 0.410 | 7.6 × 10−4 | 48.736 + 0.137 (RiffleInd) + 2.568 (HabitatHʹ) + 0.014 (SmWood) |
Trait Diversity (H′) | 0.261 | 6.4 × 10−3 | 3.636 + 0.003 (LeafPack) + 0.003 (RiffleInd) |
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Roux, A.J.; Clinton, S.M. Evaluation of the Relationship between Stream Habitat Quality and Taxa and Trait Richness and Diversity in Piedmont Streams in North Carolina. Hydrobiology 2023, 2, 363-381. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrobiology2020024
Roux AJ, Clinton SM. Evaluation of the Relationship between Stream Habitat Quality and Taxa and Trait Richness and Diversity in Piedmont Streams in North Carolina. Hydrobiology. 2023; 2(2):363-381. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrobiology2020024
Chicago/Turabian StyleRoux, Anthony J., and Sandra M. Clinton. 2023. "Evaluation of the Relationship between Stream Habitat Quality and Taxa and Trait Richness and Diversity in Piedmont Streams in North Carolina" Hydrobiology 2, no. 2: 363-381. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrobiology2020024
APA StyleRoux, A. J., & Clinton, S. M. (2023). Evaluation of the Relationship between Stream Habitat Quality and Taxa and Trait Richness and Diversity in Piedmont Streams in North Carolina. Hydrobiology, 2(2), 363-381. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrobiology2020024