caa a22 4500 445893680 CHVBK 20180317145624.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10750-010-0525-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10750-010-0525-z Community structure and composition of microfaunal egg bank assemblages in riverine and floodplain sediments [Elektronische Daten] [Nathan Ning, Daryl Nielsen] Dormancy may be an important aspect influencing the ecology of riverine microfauna, yet fundamental knowledge concerning riverine egg bank communities is still scant compared with that for communities in floodplain habitats. We investigated the microfaunal egg bank communities in slackwater habitats of an Australian floodplain river, and compared them with the communities occurring in nearby floodplain wetlands. This was achieved by taking replicate sediment cores from paired examples of each habitat and later incubating the resting stages within these sediment cores. Results from the study indicated that the egg bank communities in each habitat differed in both composition and structure, with only 12 of the 31 taxa recorded being common to both habitat types. This suggests that in addition to supporting microfaunal persistence in the main channel, riverine egg bank communities represent an important source of microfaunal diversity together with floodplain egg bank communities in river-floodplain systems. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Diversity nationallicence Dormancy nationallicence Microcrustaceans nationallicence Rotifers nationallicence Zooplankton nationallicence Ning Nathan Department of Environmental Management and Ecology, La Trobe University, PO Box 821, 3689, Wodonga, VIC, Australia aut Nielsen Daryl The Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre, La Trobe University, PO Box 991, 3689, Wodonga, VIC, Australia aut Hydrobiologia Springer Netherlands 661/1(2011-02-01), 211-221 0018-8158 661:1<211 2011 661 10750 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0525-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0525-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ning Nathan Department of Environmental Management and Ecology, La Trobe University, PO Box 821, 3689, Wodonga, VIC, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nielsen Daryl The Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre, La Trobe University, PO Box 991, 3689, Wodonga, VIC, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Hydrobiologia Springer Netherlands 661/1(2011-02-01), 211-221 0018-8158 661:1<211 2011 661 10750 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer