The stabilizing effect of resting eggs banks of the Daphnia longispina species complex for longitudinal taxon heterogeneity in long and narrow reservoirs

Abstract

We compared the spatial distribution of taxa from the Daphnia longispina complex in the active water column community and in the resting egg banks in five long narrow reservoirs in the Czech Republic (Central Europe). We concluded that the spatial heterogeneity of Daphnia taxonomic composition observed in reservoirs is substantially strengthened by the presence of spatially heterogeneous egg banks.