Ecological Archives A016-026-A1

Claudia Gratton and Robert F. Denno. 2006. Arthropod food web restoration following removal of an invasive wetland plant. Ecological Applications 16:622–631.

Appendix A (Table A1). Taxon list of dominant arthropods in different trophic categories (detritus/algal feeders, herbivores, predators, and spiders) analyzed in each habitat type (reference spartina, restored spartina, mixed spartina-phragmites, and phragmites) at the Alloway Creek restoration site (Salem County, New Jersey) in August 2001.

Trophic group        
Taxon
Reference spartina
Restored spartina
Mixed spartina-phragmites
Phragmites
Detritus/algal feeders
 
 
 
 
Chironomidae
x
x
x
x
Collembola
x
x
x
x
Ephydridae E
x
x
x
x
Gammarus sp.
x
x
x
x
 
 
 
 
 
Herbivores
 
 
 
 
Cheotopsis sp.
x
x
x
x
Chloropidae A
x
x
x
 
Chloropidae B
x
 
x
x
Curculionidae
 
 
x
 
Languria sp.
x
x
x
x
Megamelus lobatus
x
x
x
x
Prokelisia sp.
x
x
x
x
Trigonotylus uhleri
x
x
x
x
Tetramesa phragmitidis
 
 
 
x
Hyalopterus pruni
 
 
 
x
Chaetococcus phragmitis
 
 
 
x
Lasioptera hungarica
 
 
 
x
 
 
 
 
 
Predators
 
 
 
 
Achalchus sp.
x
x
x
x
Tachytrechus sp.
x
x
x
x
Dolichopodidae C
 
x
x
x
Hydrometridae
 
 
x
 
Mesoveliidae
x
 
x
x
Pseudoscorpionidae
 
 
x
 
Sciomyzidae
 
 
x
 
Staphilinidae A
 
 
x
 
Tytthus vagus
x
x
x
 
Veliidae
x
x
x
x
Pselaphidae A
 
 
 
x
Pseudoscorpionidae
 
 
 
x
Staphilinidae A
 
 
 
x
 
 
 
 
 
Spiders
 
 
 
 
Clubiona imm.
x
x
x
x
Grammonota trivittata
x
x
x
x
Hentzia imm.
x
x
x
x
Hogna sp.
 
x
 
 
Pachygnatha imm.
x
x
x
x
Pardosa sp.
x
x
x
x
Singa eugeni
 
 
x
 
Tetragnatha imm.
x
x
x
x
Lycosid imm.
x
 
 
 

   Note: Not all taxa were collected at all replicate sampling locations within a habitat type.

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