II. Leaf Litter Processing and Invertebrates The Role of Invertebrates on Leaf Litter Decomposition in Streams - a Review

By M. Graça. 2001

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The role of organisms in hyporheic processes: gaps in current knowledge, needs for future research and applications (2012, background): “Many biological actors interact with physical constraints during leaf litter degradation (Gessner et al., 1999; Graça, 2001; Marmonier et al., 2010; Corti et al., in press; Datry et al., in press) and studies are necessary to understand the relative importance of shredding activities of…”
Ergosterol as a Measure of Fungal Biomass (2020, background): “By colonizing and degrading litter, fungi also enhance its palatability to detritivorous invertebrates (shredders) and provide an attractive food source to these consumers (Suberkropp 1992, Graca 2001 ).”
Community and ecosystem consequences of giant knotweed (Polygonum sachalinense) invasion into riparian forests of western Washington, USA (2009, background): “Litter quality (C:N) affects feeding preference, survivorship, growth rate, and fecundity of litterfeeding (shredding) aquatic macro-invertebrates (Quinn et al., 2000; Graça, 2001).”
Litter decomposition in a Cerrado savannah stream is retarded by leaf toughness, low dissolved nutrients and a low density of shredders (2007, background): “The breakdown rates of leaves in streams are affected by external factors, such as temperature (Liski et al., 2003), physical abrasion (Heard et al., 1999), pH (Griffith & Perry, 1993), nutrient availability (Suberkropp & Chauvet, 1995) and presence of consumers (Graça, 2001).”
Stimulation of leaf litter decomposition and associated fungi and invertebrates by moderate eutrophication : implications for stream assessment (2006, methodology): “ Gessner & Chauvet (2002) made a strong case for using plant litter decomposition to assess functional stream integrity.”
Leaf-litter breakdown in 3 streams in temperate, Mediterranean, and tropical Cerrado climates (2006, background): “The relative importance of microbes and invertebrates in leaf-litter breakdown seems to vary across systems (Eggert and Wallace 2003, reviews by Graça 2001, Abelho 2001).”
Litter quality, stream characteristics and litter diversity influence decomposition rates and macroinvertebrates (2006, background): “…rates in streams (Webster & Benfield, 1986; Ostrofsky, 1997; Webster et al., 1999) and supports different microbial (Baldy, Gessner & Chauvet, 1995; Wallace et al., 1997; Hieber & Gessner, 2002) and invertebrate assemblages (Wallace, Webster & Cuffney, 1982; Cummins et al., 1989; Graça, 2001).”
Resource quality and stoichiometric constraints on stream ecosystem functioning (2009, background): “10 S. Hladyz et al. brate-mediated breakdown rates among leaf types were related to fungal biomass, pointing to a strong positive response of leaf-shredding detritivores to microbial conditioning (e.g. Suberkropp, 1992; Graça, 2001).”
Litter diversity, fungal decomposers and litter decomposition under simulated stream intermittency (2011, background): “This could have led to aggregation and thus enhanced feeding pressure on the litter-associated fungi, which are preferred food for litter-consuming stream detritivores and thus are selectively removed (Arsuffi & Suberkropp 1985; Graça 2001).”
Impacts of stream acidification on litter breakdown: implications for assessing ecosystem functioning (2004, background): “Because forested headwater streams receive a large proportion of their energy inputs from allochthonous leaf litter from riparian vegetation (Wallace et al. 1997, 1999), leaf breakdown plays a pivotal functional role (Webster & Benfield 1986; Maltby 1996; Gessner, Chauvet & Dobson 1999; Graça 2001).”
Global patterns of stream detritivore distribution: implications for biodiversity loss in changing climates (2012, background): “Shredders are able to assimilate carbon and other nutrients from this dead organic matter and associated microbes, and to convert a portion of it to animal tissue; they increase the rate at which coarse detritus is transformed into fine detritus; promote food availability for collectors and filter f”
Challenges for freshwater invertebrate conservation (2006, background): “Invertebrates regulate rates of primary production, decomposition, water clarity, thermal stratification, and nutrient cycling in lakes, streams, and rivers (e.g., Mazumder et al. 1990, Feminella and Hawkins 1995, Wallace and Webster 1996, Graça 2001, Vaughn and Hakenkamp 2001, Vanni 2002).”