In this study, we used a stream channel experiment to test the effects of community type and disturbance type on invertebrate communities, with invertebrate drift measurements used as a diagnostic tool to assess community impacts.
Three community types (undisturbed spring, flood-disturbed and agriculture-disturbed) were each established in a recirculating colonist header tank. Each tank fed five stream channels, randomly assigned to disturbance treatments: an undisturbed control, high-flow, nutrients, sediment, and a combined sediment and nutrients treatment.
Data set includes invertebrate community abundances in drift samples and in the channels at the end of the experiment.
For further details, see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42974-023-00149-3
