Weak Response of Animal Allochthony and Production to Enhanced Supply of Terrestrial Leaf Litter in Nutrient-Rich Lakes

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• 作者：T. Mehner ; K. Attermeyer ; M. Brauns ; S. Brothers ; J. Diekmann ; U. Gaedke…
• 关键词：stable isotopes ; terrestrial subsidy ; carbon budget ; ecological efficiency ; benthic food web ; pelagic food web
• 刊名：Ecosystems
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：19
• 期：2
• 页码：311-325
• 全文大小：656 KB
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• 作者单位：T. Mehner (1)
  K. Attermeyer (1)
  M. Brauns (2)
  S. Brothers (1) (3)
  J. Diekmann (1) (4)
  U. Gaedke (4)
  H.-P. Grossart (1) (4)
  J. Köhler (1)
  B. Lischke (4)
  N. Meyer (5)
  K. Scharnweber (1) (6)
  J. Syväranta (1) (7)
  M. J. Vanni (1) (8)
  S. Hilt (1)
  
  1. Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin and Neuglobsow, Germany
  2. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department River Ecology, Magdeburg, Germany
  3. School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Bovey Building, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
  4. Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
  5. Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  6. Evolutionary Biology Centre, Department of Ecology and Genetics; Limnology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
  7. Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Silkeborg, Denmark
  8. Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Ecology
  Plant Sciences
  Zoology
  Environmental Management
  Geoecology and Natural Processes
  Nature Conservation
  
• 出版者：Springer New York
• ISSN：1435-0629

文摘

Ecosystems are generally linked via fluxes of nutrients and energy across their boundaries. For example, freshwater ecosystems in temperate regions may receive significant inputs of terrestrially derived carbon via autumnal leaf litter. This terrestrial particulate organic carbon (POC) is hypothesized to subsidize animal production in lakes, but direct evidence is still lacking. We divided two small eutrophic lakes each into two sections and added isotopically distinct maize litter to the treatment sections to simulate increased terrestrial POC inputs via leaf litter in autumn. We quantified the reliance of aquatic consumers on terrestrial resources (allochthony) in the year subsequent to POC additions by applying mixing models of stable isotopes. We also estimated lake-wide carbon (C) balances to calculate the C flow to the production of the major aquatic consumer groups: benthic macroinvertebrates, crustacean zooplankton, and fish. The sum of secondary production of crustaceans and benthic macroinvertebrates supported by terrestrial POC was higher in the treatment sections of both lakes. In contrast, total secondary and tertiary production (supported by both autochthonous and allochthonous C) was higher in the reference than in the treatment sections of both lakes. Average aquatic consumer allochthony per lake section was 27–40%, although terrestrial POC contributed less than about 10% to total organic C supply to the lakes. The production of aquatic consumers incorporated less than 5% of the total organic C supply in both lakes, indicating a low ecological efficiency. We suggest that the consumption of terrestrial POC by aquatic consumers facilitates a strong coupling with the terrestrial environment. However, the high autochthonous production and the large pool of autochthonous detritus in these nutrient-rich lakes make terrestrial POC quantitatively unimportant for the C flows within food webs.