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Riparian and microhabitat factors determine the structure of the EPT community in Andean headwater rivers of Ecuador

"This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Vimos-Lojano, D.J., F. Martínez-Capel, and H. Hampel. 2017. Riparian and Microhabitat Factors Determine the Structure of the EPT Community in Andean Headwater Rivers of Ecuador. Ecohydrology 10 (8). Wiley: e1894. doi:10.1002/eco.1894, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1894. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving."[EN] This research was conducted in the high-Andean basin of the Zhurucay River in southern Ecuador. In 4 river reaches, 19 sampling campaigns were conducted per reach spread over a period of 35months. The biotic samples were selected in the periods with greatest flow stability. Parallel to each sampling, 37 environmental variables grouped into 3 factors (riparian corridor, hydromorphology, and water quality) were recorded. The study aimed to analyse during periods of stable flow the influence of these environmental factors on the structure and density of the EPT community (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera) in a quasi-pristine aquatic ecosystem. Multivariate statistical analysis revealed that the Froude number, gravel type, and width/depth ratio are the most relevant hydromorphological variables explaining variations in EPT density. Xiphocentronidae, Contulma, and Helicopsyche were observed to have a relationship with the order of the river, while Ochrotrichia, Nectopsyche, and Phylloicus varied with the type of riparian vegetation. Phylloicus, Ochrotrichia, and Nectopsyche were common in lentic sites, while the proportion of gravel and the width/depth ratio restricted the genus Helicopsyche. The only relevant water quality factor was the total phosphorus, which was related with 2 taxa. In conclusion, although macroinvertebrates are currently employed in water quality studies, riparian vegetation and hydromorphological factors are determinant for their communities in pristine Andean rivers. Such factors are therefore crucial in the study of environmental flows and the assessment of the ecological integrity.This research was funded by the SENESCYTPIC 11-726 Project (Interpretation of hydro-ecological processes as a basis for assessing the ecological flow in the Paute and Jubones watershed), the hydroelectric company CELECEP, and DIUC (Investigation Department of the University of Cuenca). Thanks are due to the SENESCYT project PIC 11-715 (Impact of land use change in the hydrogeochemistry of Andean basins) for providing the hydrological data used in this study. Further, financial support was provided by SENESCYT through a fellowship granted to the first author for carrying out his doctoral programme and through the PROMETEO fellowship awarded to the third author. 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A short gamma-ray burst apparently asssociated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z=0.225

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are bright, brief flashes of high energy photons that have fascinated scientists for 30 years. They come in two classes: long (>2 s), softspectrum bursts and short, hard events. The major progress to date on understanding GRBs has been for long bursts which are typically at high redshift (z ~ 1) and are in sub-luminous star-forming host galaxies. They are likely produced in core-collapse explosions of massive stars. Until the present observation, no short GRB had been accurately (<10") and rapidly (minutes) located. Here we report the detection of X-ray afterglow from and the localization of short burst GRB050509b. Its position on the sky is near a luminous, non-starforming elliptical galaxy at a redshift of 0.225, exactly the type of location one would expect if the origin of this GRB is the long-proposed fiery merger of neutron star (NS) or black hole (BH) binaries. The X-ray afterglow is found to be weak and fading below detection within a few hours and no optical afterglow is detected to stringent limits, explaining the past difficulty in localizing short GRBs.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures updated figure