Macroinvertebrates

Question 1

What is voltinism?

Answer 1

Refers to the number of times a species completes a life cycle in a year.

Question 2

What is hemimetabolous?

Answer 2

1 stage of life resembles adult, just smaller

Question 3

What is holometabulous?

Answer 3

early life stage begins as larvae->pupa->adult

Adult and larva stage utilize different habitat

Question 4

What are the functional feeding groups among aquatic invertebrates?

Answer 4

Scrapers, grazers, shredders, predators, collectors

Question 5

What ecological processes are influenced by macros?

Answer 5

Integral to food webs, main fish diet, transfer of nutrients from benthos to water column, create of substrate, vital to decomposition, control primary production

Question 6

What is secondary production?

Answer 6

Summation of consumer biomass produced over a given period,

Question 7

What ranges of mode do macros utilize?

Answer 7

Downstream drift active or passive usually at night to avoid predation, upstream, hyporheic zone, aerial

Question 8

How are macros related to water quality?

Answer 8

They have varying levels of tolerance to pollutants.