Macroinvertebrate communities and environmental variables used for the analyses

The characteristics of macroinvertebrate community structure can effectively reflect the health status of lake ecosystem and the quality of the lake ecological environment. It is of great significance to identify the limiting factors of macroinvertebrate community structure for the maintenance of lake ecosystem health. In this study, the community composition of macroinvertebrate assemblages and environmental variables in 13 small lakes within Linhuan Lake was investigated.Since this study focused on the relationship between macroinvertebrates and environmental variables, environmental variables for which macroinvertebrate sampling sites were not obtained were not included.