Invertebrate Richness and Hatching Decrease with Sediment Depth in Neotropical Intermittent Ponds.

Unlabelled: Some groups of invertebrates from intermittent wetlands produce dormant stages in response to environmental fluctuations. Dormancy is a strategy to survive such fluctuations and to persist in extreme aquatic habitats, such as temporary habitats. We investigated the hatching responses of invertebrate dormant stages across different depths of sediment in intermittent ponds.