caa a22 4500 477076084 CHVBK 20180405111438.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02514972 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02514972 Sota Teiji Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shinshu University, 390, Matsumoto, Japan aut Effects of capacity on resource input and the aquatic metazoan community structure in phytotelmata [Elektronische Daten] [Teiji Sota] Aquatic metazoan communities in treeholes and bamboo stumps were studied on Tsushima Island, Japan, in March and June in relation to the habitat size and the resouce amount. The amount of leaf detritus increased with an increase in the capacity (volume) of the phytotelma. The input rate of leaves depended upon the opening area of the phytotelma. Twenty-one metazoan inhabitant taxa consisted of 17 dipteran saprophages, a helodid beetle larva, a nematoda, a naidid, and a predator,Toxorhynchites towadensis mosquito larva. Treeholes harbored 17 taxa and bamboo stumps 20; 16 taxa were common in both phytotelmata. The number of taxa and the biomass of metazoa per phytotelma was positively correlated with the capacity. The densities of dominant saprophages such as helodid, chironomid, andCulicoides larvae were positively correlated with the capacity of phytotelmata, and the variation in their abundance contributed much to the variation in the species composition in individual phytotelmata. With an increase in capacity, treeholes harbored more helodids andCulicoides, whereas bamboo stumps harbored more chironomids andDasyhelea. Thus, the amount of resource, species richness and biomass per phytotelma largely depended upon the capacity, and the difference in community structure between treeholes and bamboo stumps was attributable to the differential colonization patterns of different taxa. Society of Population Ecology, 1996 phytotelmata nationallicence treehole nationallicence bamboo stump nationallicence metazoan community nationallicence habitat size nationallicence species diversity nationallicence biomass nationallicence Researches on Population Ecology Springer-Verlag 38/1(1996-06-01), 65-73 0034-5466 38:1<65 1996 38 10144 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02514972 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02514972 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sota Teiji Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shinshu University, 390, Matsumoto, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Researches on Population Ecology Springer-Verlag 38/1(1996-06-01), 65-73 0034-5466 38:1<65 1996 38 10144 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer