Species richness and altitudinal variation in the aquatic metazoan community in bamboo phytotelmata from north Sulawesi |
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Authors: | T Sota and M Mogi |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shinshu University, 390 Matsumoto, Japan;(2) Department of Microbiology, Saga Medical School, 849 Saga, Japan |
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Abstract: | We compared the aquatic metazoan community structure in bamboo stumps between a lowland (Kosinggolan; 200 m a.s.l.) and a
highland site (Moat; 1030–1050 m a.s.l.) in North Sulawesi. The lowland bamboo stumps harbored 38 taxa including 2 predators,
and the highland stumps harbored 35 taxa including 2 predators. In total 45 taxa were recorded, including 3 predators. Dominant
detritivores were Tipulidae, Scirtidae, Chironomidae, Culicidae and Ceratopogonidae. The sole dominant predators wereToxorhynchites mosquito larvae, which occurred in 67% and 28% of stumps at the lowland and the highland sites, respectively. Although the
mean biomass per stump did not differ significantly between the sites, the mean number of species per stump was significantly
smaller at the lowland site. In addition, the variation in species composition among stumps was greater at the lowland site
than at the highland site. Among dominant taxonomic groups, the number of non-predatory culicid species per stump was smaller
at the lowland site where their predator,Toxorhynchites, was more abundant, although both sites had the same number of culicid species. In the presence ofToxorhynchites, the density and biomass of other culicids per stump were reduced significantly. The difference in predator density might
affect differences in the local-scale community structure of individual bamboo stumps. |
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Keywords: | community bamboo phytotelmata tropics predation species richness altitudinal variation |
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