Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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Discontinuities in stream networks: the effects of tributary size and type on benthic invertebrate communities downstream from confluences

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Year: 2018, 2018
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Brochu, Melissa, Thesis advisor (ths): Jones, Nicholas E, Thesis advisor (ths): Frost, Paul C, Degree committee member (dgc): Melles, Stephanie J, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>The network composition hypothesis (NCH) suggests that i) large confluence symmetry ratios (drainage area of the tributary relative to the mainstem) and ii) landscape differences (differences in landscape characteristics between the mainstem and tributary drainages) lead to greater ecological changes below confluences. As a test of the NCH, 34 confluences were sampled in southern Ontario… more