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Tierra del Fuego rivers reveal key to thriving macroinvertebrate communities

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Drivers of macroinvertebrate metacommunity structure in Tierra del Fuego rivers
Amanda Paola Villatarco Vazquez, Daniel A. Fernández, Ricardo Albariño

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The researchers studied stream bugs in Tierra del Fuego rivers to understand how they are distributed. They found that different bugs live in different areas based on environmental factors (like water quality) at larger scales. But at smaller scales, bugs move around a lot between areas, which can override environmental factors. Bugs in different parts of the river have similar diversity, but the types of bugs change more with the size of the area. This means that in smaller areas, bugs move around more randomly, while in larger areas, environmental factors play a bigger role in where bugs live.