Effects of Sand Sedimentation on Colonization of Stream Insects
- 1 September 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
- Vol. 33 (9) , 1881-1886
- https://doi.org/10.1139/f76-240
Abstract
Driftnets, basket samplers, and artificial streams were used to investigate the influence of heavy sand accumulations on insect drift, colonization, and upstream movements in Emerald Creek, northern Idaho. Most riffle insects successfully passed through low-velocity, sandy reaches 80 m long. Upstream movements on sand were impeded by flows as low as 12 cm/s, except for the heavily cased caddisfly Dicosmoecus sp.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Catastrophic Drift of Insects in a Woodland StreamEcology, 1968