A comparison of modelled and actual distributions of eleven benthic macroinvertebrate species in a Central European mountain catchment

Abstract The article deals with Czech and German nationalist discourses and practices in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as they relate to tourism in the Krkonoše/Riesengebirge, the highest Central European mountain range between the Alps and Scandinavia. It will discuss the discourses developed in relation to mountain tourism and nationalism (metaphors of battlefields, wedges, walls, gates, and bastions), different symbolical cores of mountains, and practices of tourist and nationalist organizations (tourist trails and markings, excursions, the ownership of mountains huts, languages used, memorials, and the construction of roads). It will examine how these discourses and practices changed from the first Czech-German ethnic conflicts in the 1800s until the end of interwar Czechoslovakia. Finally, it will discuss the Czech culture of defeat in the shadow of the Munich Agreement, which meant the occupation of the Giant Mountains by Nazi Germany.

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Development of benthic macroinvertebrate species distribution models using the Bayesian optimization

Journal of The Korean Society of Water and Wastewater ◽

10.11001/jksww.2021.35.4.259 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 259-275

Author(s):

ByeongGeon Go ◽

Jihoon Shin ◽

Yoonkyung Cha

Keyword(s):

Species Distribution ◽

Species Distribution Models ◽

Bayesian Optimization ◽

Benthic Macroinvertebrate ◽

Distribution Models ◽

Macroinvertebrate Species

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Phylogeography of the moonwort fern Botrychium lunaria (Ophioglossaceae) based on chloroplast DNA in the Central-European Mountain System

Alpine Botany ◽

10.1007/s00035-017-0188-8 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 127 (2) ◽

pp. 185-196 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Alessio Maccagni ◽

Christian Parisod ◽

Jason R. Grant

Keyword(s):

Chloroplast Dna ◽

Central European ◽

Mountain System ◽

European Mountain

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Responses of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Species to Manipulation of Interstitial Detritus in Carnation Creek, British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences ◽

10.1139/f85-017 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 139-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Joseph M. Culp ◽

Ronald W. Davies

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Microbial Activity ◽

Tsuga Heterophylla ◽

Benthic Macroinvertebrate ◽

Alnus Rubra ◽

Detritus Processing ◽

Specific Manner ◽

Species Specific ◽

Macroinvertebrate Species ◽

Trophic Feeding

Experimental manipulations were conducted in Carnation Creek, British Columbia, to determine the response of macroinvertebrate distribution and abundance to differences in detritus source and quantity. Four treatments (no detritus, low hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), low alder (Alnus rubra), high alder) with a standardized substrate were established in a riffle and left for 28 d. Densities and/or biomasses of 12 of the 20 colonizing macroinvertebrate taxa were significantly different among the detritus treatments. Microbial activity, detritus processing, and macroinvertebrate abundances were highest in substrate patches with alder detritus. Compared with the no detritus and low hemlock treatments, the low alder treatment increased the abundances of nine taxa and decreased three taxa, while the high alder treatment increased the abundances of six taxa and decreased six taxa. Thus, detritus source and quantity strongly influenced macroinvertebrate community composition within the streambed. Although most of the macroinvertebrates in all treatments were either collector–gatherer or shredder detritivores, these macroinvertebrates responded to changes in detritus in a species-specific manner. Therefore, the Carnation Creek experiments emphasize the importance of interstitial detritus in the substrate as a factor that influences the microdistribution of the benthos at the species, rather than trophic feeding, assemblage level.

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