Community structure 1

Session 3 (Contributed)
Monday, June 7, 1:30 PM-3:15 PM, IRC4
Moderator: C. O'Reilly

1:30 (15) Temporal patterns in biotic assemblages of parafluvial ponds on a Rocky Mountain floodplain.
S.C. Chilcote and J.A. Stanford. Flathead Lake Biological Station, Division of Biological Sciences, The University of Montana, Polson, MT 59860-9659, USA.

1:45 (16) The ratio of periphyton to plankton under variable nutrient regimens in a fen peatland .
S.E. Zeiler and R.L. Lowe. Bowling Green State Universty

2:00 (17) Morphological traits and the environment: toward a mechanistic understanding of the distribution of aquatic chironomids (Diptera: Chironomidae).
B.R. Creutzburg and C.P. Hawkins. Department of Aquatic, Watershed, and Earth Resources, and Ecology Center, Utah State University, 5210 Old Main Hill, Logan, Utah, USA, 84322-5210

2:15 (18) Using pupal exuviae to characterize the Chironomidae fauna of the Kenai River, Alaska.
D.C. Wartinbee. Department of Biology, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Kenai Peninsula College, Soldotna, Alaska 99669

2:30 (19) Subfossil chironomid assemblages in the Pyrenean lakes .
M. Rieradevall¹, R. Casanovas-Berenguer¹, N. Prat¹, and J. Catalan². ¹Department of Ecology, University of Barcelona, Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain, ²Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes, Accés Cala St. Francesc, 14, 17300 Blanes, Spain

2:45 (20) Small-sized benthic communities in differing streams.
J. Reiss and J.M. Schmid-Araya. School of Biological Sciences, University of London, Mile End Road London E1 4NS, United Kingdom

3:00 (21) Temporal dynamics of a headwater stream meiofaunal community.
A. Arnold¹, M. Dobson¹, and A. Robertson². ¹Department of Environmental & Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M1 5GD,UK, ²School of Life Sciences, University of Surrey Roehampton, London, SW15 3SN, UK