New investigations performed with a multi-proxy approach provide robust climate reconstruction for the Late-Glacial in Massif Central, France. The temperature from Coleoptera is obtained Mutual Climatic Range Method, or “MCR” method, based on range of climates corresponding to area occupied today by species identified fossil assemblages. Weighthed Averaging Partial Least Squared (WA-PLS) method...

We measured larval growth rates of 2 dominant stream detritivore groups to assess the mechanism underlying declines in invertebrate production following exclusion of terrestrial litter inputs to a forested headwater stream. Larval Tallaperla spp. (Plecoptera:Peltoperlidae) were chosen as representative shredders and non-Tanypodinae Chironomidae (Diptera) were selected as representative collecto...

Intensive pine (Pinus spp.) management is a primary land use in the southeastern United States. In eastern North Carolina, intensively managed pine stands often occur on land previously ditched and drained. Because modification of natural vegetation and water sources are known to affect dipteran community structure, we studied effects of intensive pine management on abundance and diversity of d...

For the implementation of the Water Framework Directive we need to develop an informative and cost-effective set of biological monitoring and assessment methods, especially for remote areas. Chironomids are known to be an abundant and speciesrich group that dominate the aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages in the north and therefore should be an integral part of monitoring and assessment plans...

Oceanic islands freshwater systems are unique due to their volcanic origin, oceanic situation, catchment morphology and the presence of distinct freshwater communities when compared with continental systems. This study provides an update of Azorean chironomid fauna records, distribution data and includes biogeographical comments, based on collections covering a range of freshwater habitats on s...

Floodplain lakes are rarely analysed for fossil chironomids and usually not incorporated in modern chironomid-climate calibration datasets because of the potential complex hydrological processes that could result from flooding of the lakes. In order to investigate this potential influence of river inundations on fossil chironomid assemblages, 13 regularly inundated lakes and 20 lakes isolated f...

Sediment characteristics are well known to interfere with toxicity, mainly through differences in terms of bioaccumulation. Here, with chironomids exposed to zinc in an artificial and a field sediment, we investigated the differences of zinc accumulation and of effects on the life cycle, at individual and population level. We used biology and energy-based modeling to analyze the data at all the...

Abstract Oxygen-isotope values of invertebrate cuticle preserved in lake sediments have been used palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, generally with the assumption that fractionation oxygen isotopes between and water ( $$\upalpha_{\text{cuticle}-\text{H}_{2}\text{O}}$$ ? cuticle</mml:mte...

Much is known about how climate change impacts ecosystem richness and turnover, but we have less understanding of its influence on structures. Here, use ecological metrics (beta diversity, compositional disorder network skewness) to quantify the community structural responses temperature-sensitive chironomids (Diptera: Chironomidae) during Late Glacial (14 700–11 700 cal a bp) Holocene (11 bp p...