global scale variation in the salinity sensitivity of riverine macroinvertebrates eastern australia, france, israel and south africa全球范围内变化的盐度敏感性河的大型无脊椎动物东部澳大利亚、法国、以色列和南非.pdfVIP

Global Scale Variation in the Salinity Sensitivity of Riverine Macroinvertebrates: Eastern Australia, France, Israel and South Africa 1 2 3 3¤ 4 Ben J. Kefford *, Graeme L. Hickey , Avital Gasith , Elad Ben-David , Jason E. Dunlop , 5 6 4 7 Carolyn G. Palmer , Kaylene Allan , Satish C. Choy , Christophe Piscart 1 Centre for Environmental Sustainability, School of the Environment, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, New South Wales, Australia, 2 Northwest Institute for Bio-Health Informatics (NIBHI), University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 4 Department of Environment and Resource Management, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 5 Institute of Water Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 6 Department of ` ´ ´ Zoology, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia, 7 UMR CNRS 5023 Ecologie des Hydrosystemes Naturels et Anthropises, Universite de Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France Abstract Salinity is a key abiotic property of inland waters; it has a major influence on biotic communities and is affected by many natural and anthropogenic processes. Salinity of inland waters tends to increase with aridity, and biota of inland waters may have evolved greater salt tolerance in more arid regions. Here we compare the sensitivity of stream macroinvertebrate species to salinity from a relatively wet region in France (Lorraine and Brittany) to that in three relatively arid