Effects of Macrobenthos Relative to Floating-Leaved Plants on the Wintering Shorebird Assemblages at Shengjin Lake, China

In shallow lakes, floating-leaved plants can produce dense lakebeds that dramatically alter freshwater ecosystems and impact macrobenthic communities. Shorebirds are morphologically diverse utilize different foraging strategies; they partition food resources to achieve coexistence due differences in availability. this study, we defined shorebird guilds using a principal component analysis explained composition terms of availability by comparing communities Euryale ferox artificial planting areas, Trapa spp. natural growth control areas. The Mantel test Spearman were used correlate taxa with guilds. We recorded four the three study including insects, gastropods, oligochaetes, bivalves. Fifteen species belonging families across Our results suggest an important cause communities, epifaunal macrobenthos (insects gastropods) infaunal (oligochaetes bivalves) take on patterns diversity habitats. potentially coherent. Different limited thus correlated differently macrobenthos. Therefore, relative affect assemblages affecting resources.