Temporal patterns of diversity, abundance and evenness for invertebrate communities from coastal freshwater and brackish water rock pools
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Aquatic invertebrate data were collected from 49 erosional, Jamaican,rock pools between 1989 and 1998 and used to describe temporal patterns ofspecies diversity. This unique series of pools on the north coast of Jamaica,classified as either brackish (31) or freshwater (18), was used to determinehowdiversity changes over time, whether there was a difference between poolclassifications, and the impacts of environmental variables. Mean communitymetrics (richness, diversity, evenness, abundance) were not significantlydifferent between freshwater and brackish pools. However, there weresignificantdifferences among the eight sampling dates and differences over time dependedonpool classification. Measures of diversity for freshwater pools were relativelyconstant over time, implying little change at the community level. Brackishpools showed significant differences over time in species richness, totalabundance, and evenness implying that community composition and structure werenot static but changed in response to either environmental or biotic changes(possibly initiated by environmental change).Some temporal changes in community metrics could be linked to temporal changesin environmental variables. In brackish water pools, a significant increase inpool salinity between January 1991 and January 1992 corresponded to an increasein species richness, likely due to an increase in marine fauna. Similarly,changes in abundance and evenness corresponded to changes in temperature,dissolved oxygen, and pH. In addition, physicochemical variables used in thisstudy were shown to affect community metrics and those relationships dependedonpool classification. Most relationships between community metrics andenvironmental variables were negative with the exception of Simpson's diversityindex for which positive relationships were found. This may indicate that, aspool conditions become less favorable, a few species flourish and dominate thecommunity.
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