In-stream litter decomposition along an altitudinal gradient: does substrate quality matter?

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• 作者：Aingeru Martínez ; Silvia Monroy ; Javier Pérez ; Aitor Larrañaga…
• 关键词：Resource quality ; Temperature ; Surrounding forest ; Microbial respiration ; Macroinvertebrates
• 刊名：Hydrobiologia
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：766
• 期：1
• 页码：17-28
• 全文大小：825 KB
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• 作者单位：Aingeru Martínez (1)
  Silvia Monroy (1)
  Javier Pérez (1)
  Aitor Larrañaga (1)
  Ana Basaguren (1)
  Jon Molinero (1)
  Jesús Pozo (1)
  
  1. Laboratory of Stream Ecology, Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, P.O. Box 644, 48080, Bilbao, Spain
  
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Hydrobiology
  Ecology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-5117

文摘

In temperate streams, water temperature and organic matter inputs from surrounding forest vary along the altitude. We tested if the different features of streams of similar size determined by an altitudinal gradient might differentially affect the processing rate of different quality leaves (alder, oak and beech). To distinguish the relative contribution of microbial decomposition from overall decomposition, fine- and coarse-mesh bags were used. We determined decomposition rates, leaf-N and -P concentration, microbial respiration (fine bags), invertebrate colonisation (coarse bags) and density and identity of benthic invertebrates in three second-order streams. Alder decomposed faster than the other species in all three streams and regardless of mesh size due to its lower values of C:N, C:P and N:P. Unexpectedly, microbial decomposition rate did not vary among streams for any of the leaf species. The total decomposition rate of alder and oak showed a negative trend along the altitudinal gradient, the magnitude of the change in decomposition rates being similar for both species. The density and structure of the invertebrate community differed along the altitudinal gradient, related to temperature and surrounding vegetation, determining the decomposition rate. Unexpectedly, sensitivity of decomposition rate of different quality leaves to temperature does not differ along the gradient. Keywords Resource quality Temperature Surrounding forest Microbial respiration Macroinvertebrates