TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schafft, Malwina
A1  - Wagner, Norman
A1  - Schütz, Tobias
A1  - Veith, Michael
T1  - A near-natural experiment on factors influencing larval drift in Salamandra salamandra
T2  - Scientific Reports
N2  - The larval stage of the European fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) inhabits both lentic and lotic habitats. In the latter, they are constantly exposed to unidirectional water flow, which has been shown to cause downstream drift in a variety of taxa. In this study, a closed artificial creek, which allowed us to keep the water flow constant over time and, at the same time, to simulates with predefined water quantities and durations, was used to examine the individual movement patterns of marked larval fire salamanders exposed to unidirectional flow. Movements were tracked by marking the larvae with VIAlpha tags individually and by using downstream and upstream traps. Most individuals showed stationarity, while downstream drift dominated the overall movement pattern. Upstream movements were rare and occurred only on small distances of about 30 cm; downstream drift distances exceeded 10 m (until next downstream trap). The simulated flood events increased drift rates significantly, even several days after the flood simulation experiments. Drift probability increased with decreasing body size and decreasing nutritional status. Our results support the production hypothesis as an explanation for the movements of European fire salamander larvae within creeks.
KW  - Animal behaviour
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Herpetology
KW  - Hydrology
KW  - Limnology
KW  - Feuersalamander
KW  - Larve
KW  - Künstliches Fließgewässer
KW  - Drift
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1859
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:385-1-18599
VL  - 2022
IS  - Band 12 (2022)
PB  - Springer Nature
CY  - London
ER  -