Consumer body composition and community structure in a stream is altered by pH
Consumer body composition and community structure in a stream is altered by pH
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pH 值会改变溪流中消费者的身体成分和群落结构
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10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02305.x
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2010
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2.7
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LARRAÑAGA A
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LARRAÑAGA A
1. Low pH inhibits microbial conditioning of leaf‐litter, which forms the principal energy input to many headwater streams. This reduces food quality and availability for the shredder assemblage, thereby creating a potential bottleneck in the flux of energy and biomass through acidified food webs.2. We explored the consequences of acidity on the well‐characterised community of Broadstone Stream in southeast England, by quantifying the physiological condition (protein and lipid content) of three dominant shredder species (Leuctra nigra,L. hippopusandNemurella pictetii) and relating this to changes in the numerical abundance and biomass of invertebrates across a longitudinal pH gradient (5.3–6.5).3. Total taxon richness increased with pH, as did shredder diversity. The acid‐tolerant stonefly,L. nigra, exhibited a positive correlation between pH and protein content, but its abundance was suppressed in the less acid reaches. These results suggest that the impacts of environmental stressors might be manifested differently at the population (i.e. numerical and biomass abundance) versus the physiological (i.e. protein content of individuals) levels of organisation. Body composition ofL. hippopusandN. pictetiidid not exhibit any significant relationship with stream pH in the field.4. The survey data were corroborated with a laboratory rearing experiment usingN. pictetii, in which survival rate, growth rate, and protein and lipid content of individuals were measured in stream water of differing pH and acid versus circumneutral microbial conditioning regimes. Acid‐conditioned leaves were associated with increased mortality and reduced protein content in consumers’ tissues, with acid water also having the latter effect.5. Our results suggest that biochemical constraints within key taxa might create energy flux bottlenecks in detrital‐based food webs, and that this could ultimately determine the productivity of the entire system. Hence assays of the body composition of macroinvertebrates could be an effective new tool that complements population level studies of the impacts of stressors in fresh waters.
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