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Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands

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This chapter reviews invertebrate ecological research in major peatland areas of Europe, Canada, the United States, and China. The terrestrial invertebrate fauna has been shown to be especially diverse, and numerous taxa appear to be valuable environmental indicators. However, the ecological and functional roles of terrestrial invertebrates remain poorly known, and this kind of knowledge is sorely needed to understand how these organisms affect peatland ecosystems and why this fauna has tangible value for peatland bioassessment. Even less is known about the aquatic fauna. Basic inventories are lacking, the functional importance of the aquatic fauna to ecosystem processes remains essentially unknown, and their value, if any, to bioassessment is still largely undeveloped.

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  1. Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    Darold Batzer

  2. Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Changchun, Jilin, China

    Haitao Wu

  3. Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada

    Terry Wheeler

  4. USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, MN, USA

    Sue Eggert

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Appendix

Appendix

Aquatic invertebrate taxa recorded from peatlands across the globe, arranged from bogs (lower pH) to fens (higher pH). Dark shading of cells indicates ubiquitous taxa, medium shading indicates sporadic occurrence of taxa, and light shading indicates taxa reported from only a single location. Different sampling techniques and sampling intensities were utilized at each location; hence the absence of a taxon from a particular site may be a sampling artifact. (Genus level classifications are available from the applicable references or from S. Eggert or H. Wu for their previously unpublished data.)

 

Okefenokee Swamp (Kratzer and Batzer 2007)

Minnesota bogs (Eggert, unpublished)

Irish bogs (Hannigan and Kelly-Quinn 2012; Hannigan et al. 2011)

Japanese poor-fen (Kato et al. 2009)

Chinese fens (Wu, unpublished)

Minnesota rich fen (Eggert, unpublished)

Irish rich fen (Hannigan and Kelly-Quinn 2012)

pH

3.8–4.7

3.7–4.9

4.3–4.9

4.7–6.3

5.8–6.9

6.5–7.0

6.9–8.3

NEMATODA

       

MOLLUSCA

       

Gastropoda

       

Ancylidae

       

Bithyniidae

       

Lymnaeidae

       

Planorbidae

       

Succineidae

       

Valvatidae

       

Bivalvia

       

Sphaeriidae

       

ANNELIDA

       

Oligochaeta

       

Lumbriculidae

       

Tubificidae

       

Hirudinea

       

Erpobdellidae

       

Glossophoniidae

       

CRUSTACEA

       

Branchiopoda (Cladocera)

       

Branchiura

       

Arguliidae

       

Copepoda

       

Ostracoda

       

Amphipoda

       

Crangonyctidae

       

Gammaridae

       

Isopoda

       

Asellidae

       

Decapoda

       

Atydidae

       

Cambaridae

       

Palaemonidae

       

ACARINA

       

Hydrachnidia

       

INSECTA

       

Collembola

       

Entomobryidae

       

Isotomidae

       

Poduridae

       

Sminthuridae

       

Ephemeroptera

       

Baetidae

       

Caenidae

       

Leptophlebidae

       

Odonata

       

Coenagrionidae

       

Lestidae

       

Aeshnidae

       

Corduliidae

       

Libellulidae

       

Hemiptera

       

Belostomatidae

       

Corixidae

       

Gerridae

       

Hydrometridae

       

Mesoveliidae

       

Naucoridae

       

Nepidae

       

Notonectidae

       

Pleidae

       

Veliidae

       

Coleoptera

       

Dytiscidae

       

Gyrinidae

       

Haliplidae

       

Hydraenidae

       

Hydrophilidae/Helophoridae

       

Noteridae

       

Scirtidae

       

Neuroptera

       

Corydalidae

       

Sialidae

       

Sisyridae

       

Trichoptera

       

Hydroptilidae

       

Leptoceridae

       

Limnephilidae

       

Phryganeidae

       

Polycentropodidae

       

Lepidoptera

       

Pyralidae/Crambidae

       

Diptera

       

Ceratopogonidae

       

Chaoboridae

       

Chironomidae

       

(Chironominae)

       

(Tanypodinae)

       

(Orthocladiinae)

       

Culicidae

       

Dixidae

       

Dolichopodidae

       

Muscidae

       

Psychodidae

       

Ptychopteridae

       

Sciomyzidae

       

Simuliidae

       

Stratiomyidae

       

Syrphidae

       

Tabanidae

       

Tipulidae/Limoniidae

       

TOTAL TAXA

52

24

34

24

49

33

46

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Batzer, D., Wu, H., Wheeler, T., Eggert, S. (2016). Peatland Invertebrates. In: Batzer, D., Boix, D. (eds) Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24978-0_7

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