Free Access
Issue
Ann. Limnol. - Int. J. Lim.
Volume 53, 2017
Page(s) 161 - 174
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/limn/2017004
Published online 03 March 2017
  • Allan J.D., 1995. Stream Ecology. Structure and Functions of Running Waters, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 388 p. [Google Scholar]
  • Andersen T., Cranston P.S. and Epler J.H. (eds.), 2013. Chironomidae of the Holartic Region. Keys and Diagnoses – Larvae, Insect Systematics and Evolution, Supplement 66, Lund, Sweden, 573 p. [Google Scholar]
  • Armitage P., Cranston P.S. and Pinder L.C.V. (eds.), 1995. The Chironomidae. The Biology and Ecology of Non-Biting Midges, Chapman & Hall, London, 572 p. [Google Scholar]
  • Astor T., Strengbom J., Berg M.P., Lenoir L., Marteinsdóttir B. and Bengtsson J., 2014. Underdispersion and overdispersion of traits in terrestrial snail communities on islands. Ecol. Evol., 4, 2090–2102. [Google Scholar]
  • Bady P., Dolédec S., Fesl C., Gayraud S., Bacchi M. and Schöll F., 2005. Use of invertebrate traits for the biomonitoring of European large rivers: the effects of sampling effort on genus richness and functional diversity. Freshwat. Biol., 50, 159–173. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Baranov V.A., 2014. Additions to the inventory of the Portuguese chironomids (Diptera: Chironomidae, based on material from Vaiamonte parish. Dipteron, 30, 2–7. [Google Scholar]
  • Bonada N., Rieradevall M. and Prat N., 2007a. Macroinvertebrate community structure and biological traits related to flow permanence in a Mediterranean river network. Hydrobiologia, 589, 91–106. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Bonada N., Dolédec S. and Statzner B., 2007b. Taxonomic and biological trait differences of stream macroinvertebrate communities between Mediterranean and temperate regions: implications for future climatic scenarios. Glob. Change Biol., 13, 1658–1671. [Google Scholar]
  • Brown L.E., Hannah D.M. and Milner A.M., 2007. Vulnerability of alpine stream biodiversity to shrinking glaciers and snowpacks. Glob. Change Biol., 13, 958–966. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Calle-Martínez D. and Casas J.J., 2006. Chironomid species, stream classification, and water-quality assessment: the case of 2 Iberian Mediterranean mountain regions. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc., 25, 465–477. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Chessel D., Dufour A.B. and Thioulouse J., 2004. The ade4 package – I: one-table methods. R. News, 4, 5–10. [Google Scholar]
  • Chevenet F., Dolédec S. and Chessel D., 1994. A fuzzy coding approach for the analysis of long-term ecological data. Freshwat. Biol., 31, 295–309. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Coffman W.P. and Ferrington L.C., 1996. Chironomidae. In: Merritt R.W. and Cummins K.W. (eds.), An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America (3rd edn), Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, 635–754. [Google Scholar]
  • Cranston P.S., 1982. A Key to the Larvae of the British Orthocladiinae (Chironomidae), Freshwater Biological Associations Scientific Publication no 45, Ambleside, 152 p. [Google Scholar]
  • Cranston P.S., 1995. Morphology. In: Armitage P., Cranston P.S. and Pinder L.C.V. (eds.), The Chironomidae. The Biology and Ecology of Non-biting Midges, Chapman & Hall, London, 11–30. [Google Scholar]
  • Delettre Y.R., 1988. Chironomid wing length, dispersal ability and habitat predictability. Holarct. Ecol., 11, 166–170. [Google Scholar]
  • Delettre Y.R. and Morvan N., 2000. Dispersal of adult aquatic Chironomidae (Diptera) in agricultural landscapes. Freshwat. Biol., 44, 399–411. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Devin S., Beisel J.-N., Usseglio-Polatera P. and Moreteau J.-C., 2005. Changes in functional biodiversity in an invaded freshwater ecosystem: the Moselle River. Hydrobiologia, 542, 113–120. [Google Scholar]
  • Dolédec S. and Chessel D., 1987. Rythmes saisonniers et composantes stationnelles en milieu aquatique. I. – Description d'un plan d'observation complet par projection de variables. Acta Oecol. – Oec. Gen., 8, 403–426. [Google Scholar]
  • Dolédec S. and Statzner B., 2010. Responses of freshwater biota to human disturbances: contribution of J-NABS to developments in ecological integrity assessments. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc., 29, 286–311. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Dray S. and Dufour A.B., 2007. The ade4 package: implementing the duality diagram for ecologists. J. Stat. Softw., 22, 1–20. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Dray S., Dufour A.B. and Chessel D., 2007. The ade4 package – II: two-table and K-table methods. R. News, 7, 47–52. [Google Scholar]
  • European Commission, 2000. Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for community action in the field of water policy. Off. J. Eur. Comm., L327, 1–73. [Google Scholar]
  • Feio M.J. and Dolédec S., 2012. Integration of invertebrate traits into predictive models for indirect assessment of stream functional integrity: a case study in Portugal. Ecol. Indic., 15, 236–247. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Feio M.J., Aguiar F.C., Almeida S.F.P., Ferreira J., Ferreira M.T., Elias C., Serra S.R., Buffagni A., Cambra J., Chauvin C., Delmas F., Dörflinger G., Erba S., Flor N., Ferréol M., Germ M., Mancini L., Manolaki P., Marcheggiani S., Minciardi M.R., Munné A., Papastergiadou E., Prat N., Puccinelli C., Rosebery J., Sabater S., Ciadamidaro S., Tornés E., Tziortzis I., Urbanic G., and Vieira C., 2014. Least disturbed conditions for European Mediterranean rivers. Sci. Total Environ., 476–477, 745–756. [Google Scholar]
  • Franquet E., 1996. Occupation d'un espace fluvial par les Diptères Chironomidés à l'aval du Rhône : répartition des espèces selon la nature du substrat et les conditions de débit. PhD thesis, Université Lyon 1, Villeurbanne. [Google Scholar]
  • Gasith A. and Resh V.H., 1999. Streams in Mediterranean climate regions: abiotic influences and biotic responses to predictable seasonal events. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst., 30, 51–81. [Google Scholar]
  • Goddeeris B.R., 1990. Life cycle characteristics in Tanytarsus sylvaticus (van der Wulp, 1859) (Chironomidae, Diptera). Ann. Limnol. - Int. J. Lim., 26, 51–64. [CrossRef] [EDP Sciences] [Google Scholar]
  • Greffard M.-H., Saulnier-Talbot É. and Gregory-Eaves I., 2011. A comparative analysis of fine versus coarse taxonomic resolution in benthic chironomid community analyses. Ecol. Indic., 11, 1541–1551. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Harrison S.S.C., Pretty J.L., Shepherd D., Hildrew A.G., Smith C. and Hey R.D., 2004. The effect of instream rehabilitation structures on macroinvertebrates in lowland rivers. J. Appl. Ecol., 41, 1140–1154. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Hawkins C.P. and Norris R.H., 2000. Effects of taxonomic resolution and use of subsets of fauna on the performance of RIVPACS-type models. In: Wright J.F., Sutcliffe D.W. and Furse M.T. (eds.), Assessing the Biological Quality of Freshwaters RIVPACS and Other Techniques, Freshwater Biological Association, Ambleside, Cumbria, 217–228. [Google Scholar]
  • Heino J., Mykrä H., Kotanen J. and Muotka T., 2007. Ecological filters and variability in stream macroinvertebrate communities: do taxonomic and functional structure follow the same path? Ecography, 30, 217–230. [CrossRef] [MathSciNet] [Google Scholar]
  • Hershey A.E. and Dodson S.I., 1987. Predator avoidance by Cricotopus: cyclomorphosis and the importance of being big and hairy. Ecology, 68, 913–920. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • INAG, 2008. Manual para a avaliação biológica da qualidade da água em sistemas fluviais segundo a directiva quadro da água, Protocolo de amostragem e análise para os macroinvertebrados bentónicos, Ministério do Ambiente, do Ordenamento do Território e do Desenvolvimento Regional, Instituto da Água, I.P., Portugal, 61 p. [Google Scholar]
  • Karr J., 1991. Biological integrity: a long-neglected aspect of water resource management. Ecol. Appl., 1, 66–84. [Google Scholar]
  • King R.S. and Richardson C.J., 2002. Evaluating subsampling approaches and macroinvertebrate taxonomic resolution for wetland bioassessment. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc., 21, 150–171. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Lenat D.R. and Resh V.H., 2001. Taxonomy and stream ecology – the benefits of genus- and species-level identifications. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc., 20, 287–298. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Lencioni V., Marziali L. and Rossaro B., 2007. I Ditteri Chironomidi. Morfologia, tassonomia, ecologia, fisiologia e zoogeografia, Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Trento. Quaderni del Museu Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, 1, 172 p. [Google Scholar]
  • Lencioni V., Marziali L. and Rossaro B., 2012. Chironomids as bioindicators of environmental quality in mountain springs. Freshwat. Sci., 31, 525–541. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Lencioni V., Bernabò P., Cesari M., Rebecchi L. and Cesari M., 2013. Thermal stress induces HSP70 proteins synthesis in larvae of the cold stream non-biting midge Diamesa cinerella Meigen. Arch. Insect. Biochem. Physiol., 83, 1–14. [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  • Lindegaard C.B. and Brodersen K.P., 1995. Distribution of Chironomidae (Diptera) in the River Continuum. In: Cranston P. (ed.), Chironomids: from Genes to Ecosystems, CSIRO Publications, Melbourne, 257–271. [Google Scholar]
  • Makkonen M., Berg M.P., van Hal J.R., Callaghan T.V., Press M.C. and Aerts R., 2011. Traits explain the responses of a sub-arctic Collembola community to climate manipulation. Soil Biol. Biochem., 43, 377–384. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Marziali L., Giordano A., Cazzola M., Erba S., Toppi E., Buffagni A. and Rossaro B., 2010. Responses of Chironomid larvae (Insecta, Diptera) to ecological quality in Mediterranean river mesohabitats (South Italy). River Res. Applic., 26, 1036–1051. [Google Scholar]
  • Moller Pillot H.K.M., 2009. Chironomidae Larvae – Biology and Ecology of the Chironomini, KNNV Publishing, The Netherlands, 270 p. [Google Scholar]
  • Moller Pillot H.K.M., 2013. Chironomidae Larvae – Biology and Ecology of the Aquatic Orthocladinae, KNNV Publishing, The Netherlands, 312 p. [Google Scholar]
  • Móra A., Csépes E., Tóth M. and Dévai G., 2008. Spatio-temporal variations of macroinvertebrate community in the Tisza River (NE Hungary). Acta Zool. Acad. Sci. Hung., 54, 181–190. [Google Scholar]
  • Poff N.L., 1996. A hydrogeography of unregulated streams in the United States and an examination of scale-dependence in some hydrological descriptors. Freshwat. Biol., 36, 71–91. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Portuguese Environmental Agency, 2007. Sistema Nacional de Informação de Ambiente. Available online at: http://sniamb.apambiente.pt/Home/Default.htm. Last accessed 12 July 2016. [Google Scholar]
  • Prat N. and Rieradevall M., 2014. Guia para el reconocimiento de las larvas de Chironomidae (DIPTERA) de los ríos mediterráneos. Version 1. Available online at: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/60584. Last accessed 12 July 2016. [Google Scholar]
  • Prat N., Puig M.A., González G. and Millet X., 1983. Chironomid longitudinal distribution and macroinvertebrate diversity along the Llobregat River (NE Spain). Mem. Am. Entomol. Soc., 34, 267–278. [Google Scholar]
  • Puntí T., Rieradevall M. and Prat N., 2007. Chironomidae assemblages in reference condition Mediterranean streams: environmental factors, seasonal variability and ecotypes. Fundam. Appl. Limnol., 170, 149–165. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Puntí T., Rieradevall M. and Prat N., 2009. Environmental factors, spatial variation and specific requirements of Chironomidae in Mediterranean reference streams. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc., 28, 247–265. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • R Core Team, 2015. R: a Language and Environment for Statistical Computing, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. Available online at: http://www.r-project.org/. [Google Scholar]
  • Rabeni C.F. and Wang N., 2001. Bioassessment of streams using macroinvertebrates: are the Chironomidae necessary? Environ. Monit. Assess., 71, 177–185. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Reynoldson T.B., Norris R.H., Resh V.H., Day K.E. and Rosenberg D.M., 1997. The reference condition: a comparison of multimetric and multivariate approaches to assess water-quality impairment using benthic macroinvertebrates. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc., 16, 833–852. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Rieradevall M., Chaves M.L. and Prat N., 2007. High altitude Chironomidae (Diptera) of Serra da Estrela (Portugal): additions to the Portuguese and Iberian Peninsula Fauna. Graellsia, 63, 273–278. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Robert P. and Escoufier Y., 1976. A unifying tool for linear multivariate statistical methods: the RV-coefficient. J. R. Stat. Soc. C – Appl., 25, 257–265. [Google Scholar]
  • Rosenberg D.M. and Resh V.H., 1993. Freshwater Biomonitoring and Benthic Macroinvertebrates, Chapman & Hall, New York, 488 p. [Google Scholar]
  • Rossaro B., Lencioni V., Boggero A. and Marziali L., 2006. Chironomids from Southern Alpine running waters: ecology, biogeography. Hydrobiologia, 562, 231–246. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Saether O.A. and Spies M., 2013. Fauna Europaea: Chironomidae. In: Beuk P. and Pape T. (eds.), Fauna Europaea: Diptera, Fauna Europaea Version 2.6.2. Available online at: http://www.faunaeur.org/. Last accessed 12 July 2016. [Google Scholar]
  • Serra S.R.Q., Cobo F., Graça M.A.S., Dolédec S. and Feio M.J.F., 2016. Synthesising the trait information of European Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera): toward a new database. Ecol. Indic., 61, 282–292. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Statzner B., Bady P., Dolédec S. and Schöll F., 2005. Invertebrate traits for the biomonitoring of large European rivers: an initial assessment of trait patterns in least impacted river reaches. Freshwat. Biol., 50, 2136–2161. [Google Scholar]
  • Statzner B., Bonada M. and Dolédec S., 2008. Biological attributes discriminating invasive from native European stream macroinvertebrates. Biol. Invasions, 10, 517–530. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
  • Stoddard J., Larsen D.P., Hawkins C.P., Johnson R.K. and Norris R.H., 2006. Setting expectations for the ecological condition of streams: the concept of reference condition. Ecol. Appl., 16, 1267–1276. [Google Scholar]
  • Ter Braak C.F.J., 1988. Partial canonical correspondence analysis. In: Bock H.H. (ed.), Classification and Related Methods of Data Analysis, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 551–558. [Google Scholar]
  • Tokeshi M., 1995. Life cycles and population dynamics. In: Armitage P., Cranston P.S. and Pinder L.C.V. (eds.), The Chironomidae. The Biology and Ecology of Non-biting Midges, Chapman & Hall, London, 225–268. [Google Scholar]
  • Usseglio-Polatera P., Bournaud M., Richoux P. and Tachet H., 2000. Biomonitoring through biological traits of benthic macroinvertebrates: how to use species trait data bases? Hydrobiologia, 422/423, 173–181. [Google Scholar]
  • Vallenduuk H.J. and Moller Pillot H.K.M., 2007. Chironomidae Larvae – General Ecology and Tanypodinae, KNNV Publishing, The Netherlands, 144 p. [Google Scholar]
  • Wymer D.A. and Cook S.B., 2003. Effects of Chironomidae (Diptera) taxonomic resolution on multivariate analyses of aquatic insect communities. J. Freshwat. Ecol., 18, 179–186. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.

Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.

Initial download of the metrics may take a while.