Long-term climate and hydrologic regimes shape stream invertebrate community responses to a hurricane disturbance

Disturbances can produce a spectrum of short- and long-term ecological consequences that depend on complex interactions of the characteristics of the event, antecedent environmental conditions, and the intrinsic properties of resistance and resilience of the affected biological system. We used Hurricane Harvey’s impact on coastal rivers of Texas to examine the roles of storm-related changes in hydrology and long-term precipitation regime on the response of stream invertebrate communities to hurricane disturbance. We detected declines in richness, diversity, and total abundance following the storm, but responses were strongly tied to direct and indirect effects of long-term aridity and short-term changes in stream hydrology. The amount of rainfall a site received drove both flood duration and flood magnitude across sites, but lower annual rainfall amounts (i.e., aridity) increased flood magnitude and decreased flood duration. Across all sites, flood duration was positively related to the..., Please see the associated manuscript for full methods. , , # Long-term climate and hydrologic regimes shape stream invertebrate community responses to a hurricane disturbance

### Strickland\_et\_al\_2024\_core.csv - aquatic benthic invertebrate core sampling data

UID = unique identifier for site_date
Transect = meter spot along transect 0, 25, 50, 75
Site.Code = 9 sites 2 or 3 letter code, see manuscript
MONTH, DAY, YEAR = separate columns for sampling date
Count.XXXX = count of lowest taxonomic resolution, NA should be removed
StormCode = sampling date grouping used for data exploration; was the sampling immediate, before site has recovered to the long-term baseline average total abundance (pre-recovery), recovery, or after-recovery (average)

### Strickland\_et\_al\_2024\_kick.csv - aquatic invertebrate kick sampling data

UID = unique identifier for site_date
Site.Code = 9 sites 2 or 3 letter code, see manuscript
Month, Day, Year = separate columns for sampling date
Cycle = numeric code to explain the overall sampling event number across s...