Does macrophyte fractal complexity drive invertebrate diversity, biomass and body size distributions?

By L. Mcabendroth, P. Ramsay, A. Foggo, Simon Rundle, D. Bilton. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Distribution differences and active habitat choices of invertebrates between macrophytes of different morphological complexity (2011, background): “The effect of habitat complexity on animal abundance is often confounded by habitat area (e.g., Taniguchi et al. 2003; McAbendroth et al. 2005; Warfe and Barmuta 2006).”
Quantifying habitat structure: surface convolution and living space for species in complex environments (2008, background): “D has been shown to be a relatively good indicator of structural complexity, with more complex habitats having a higher D and supporting more animals, for both rocky substrates (Beck 1998, Schmid 2000) and plants (Shorrocks et al. 1991, McAbendroth et al. 2005, Thomaz et al. 2007).”
Invasive seaweeds transform habitat structure and increase biodiversity of associated species (2017, background): “Journal of Ecology © 2017 British Ecological Society relationships of species complexity (e.g. Gunnarsson 1992; McAbendroth et al. 2005).”
Effects of macrophyte heterogeneity and food availability on structural parameters of the macroinvertebrate community in a Pampean stream (2011, background): “As animals should perceive and use the habitat proportionally to their own body size (Gee & Warwick, 1994; McAbendroth et al., 2005; Robson et al., 2005), in a same fractal habitat the area perceived (and available) for smaller organisms will be greater than the area perceived by larger organisms…”
Existing in plenty: abundance, biomass and diversity of ciliates and meiofauna in small streams (2008, background): “Moreover, there are indications that invertebrate abundance and biomass are influenced by substrate complexity but that species richness is not (McAbendroth et al., 2005).”
Environmental correlates of plant and invertebrate species richness in ponds (2011, background): “The structural complexity of the plant community also plays a role in determining biomass of invertebrates, although not the species richness (McAbendroth et al. 2005).”
Eco-engineering urban infrastructure for marine and coastal biodiversity: Which interventions have the greatest ecological benefit? (2018, background): “Additionally, because responses of organisms to 137 complexity are dependent on body size (Hacker & Steneck 1990; McAbendroth et al. 2005), 138 an organism may benefit most from an intervention that adds microhabitats that are a similar 139 order of magnitude to its size (Köhler, Hansen & Wahl…”