Environmental determinants of leech assemblage patterns in lotic and lenitic habitats

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Authors	KUBOVÁ Nela SCHENKOVÁ Jana HORSÁK Michal
Year of publication	2013
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Limnologica
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2013.05.001
Field	Zoology
Keywords	Hirudinida; Species diversity and composition; Lotic and lenitic habitats; Environmental predictors; Prey availability; Response curves
Description	Leeches (Clitellata: Hirudinida) are abundant predators or ecto-parasites inhabiting various freshwater habitats; however many biotic and abiotic drivers of their assemblage patterns have been deduced rather than directly tested. To study species richness and composition changes in leech assemblages, 109 sites of running and stagnant water bodies were sampled in three regions of the Czech Republic.
Related projects:	Diversity of Biotic Communities and Populations: Causal Analysis of variation in space and time