caa a22 4500 477076262 CHVBK 20180405111439.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19961201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02515737 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02515737 Species richness and altitudinal variation in the aquatic metazoan community in bamboo phytotelmata from north Sulawesi [Elektronische Daten] [T. Sota, M. Mogi] 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. Society of Population Ecology, 1996 community nationallicence bamboo phytotelmata nationallicence tropics nationallicence predation nationallicence species richness nationallicence altitudinal variation nationallicence Sota T. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shinshu University, 390, Matsumoto, Japan aut Mogi M. Department of Microbiology, Saga Medical School, 849, Saga, Japan aut Researches on Population Ecology Springer-Verlag 38/2(1996-12-01), 275-281 0034-5466 38:2<275 1996 38 10144 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02515737 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02515737 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sota T. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shinshu University, 390, Matsumoto, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mogi M. Department of Microbiology, Saga Medical School, 849, Saga, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Researches on Population Ecology Springer-Verlag 38/2(1996-12-01), 275-281 0034-5466 38:2<275 1996 38 10144 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer