Relative importance of benthic microalgae, phytoplankton and the detritus of smooth cordgrass Spartina alterniflora and the common reed Phragmites australis to brackish-marsh food webs

By S. Wainright, M. Weinstein, K. Able, C. Currin. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography

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• Salt marshes as nurseries for nekton: testing hypotheses on density, growth and survival through meta-analysis (2003, background): “For example, stable isotope analyses have demonstrated that nutrient sources for fishes and crustaceans vary with estuarine location, habitat type, dominant vegetation type and season (Currin et al. 1995, Deegan & Garritt 1997, Hughes et al. 2000, Wainright et al. 2000, Weinstein et al. 2000).”
• Spatial patterns of autochthonous and allochthonous resources in aquatic food webs (2008, background): “Stable isotope analyses have revealed that the macrozoobenthos, which are important consumers in most estuaries, shift their main food source from benthic microalgae to allochthonous materials from river or sea as the composition of suspended organic matter changes (e.g., Cifuentes et al. 1996; Wai”
• Restoration of Arthropod Assemblages in a Spartina Salt Marsh following Removal of the Invasive Plant Phragmites australis (2005, background): “…are significant components of the diet of fish (Fundulus heteroclitus, James et al. 2001), an important marsh consumer and link to open-water habitats (Wainright et al. 2000), it is likely that changes in arthropod assemblages will also impact food resources of a variety of estuarine consumers.”
• Modification of Sediments and Macrofauna by an Invasive Marsh Plant (2001, methodology): “Investigations by Weinstein and Balletto (1999) and Wainright et al. (2000) in mid-Atlantic Spartina alterniflora marshes indicate that fishes occupying Phragmites-invaded habitat obtain nutrition from animals that feed on Phragmites detritus.”
• Feeding of the bivalve Theora lubrica on benthic microalgae : isotopic evidence (2003, background): “Mar Ecol Prog Ser 22:141–152 Stribling JM, Cornwell JC (1997) Identification of important primary producers in a Chesapeake Bay tidal creek system using stable isotopes of carbon and sulfur.”
• Vegetation type and the intertidal macroinvertebrate fauna of a brackish marsh: Phragmites vs. Spartina (2001, background): “For example, conversion from Spartina to Phragmites may reduce the local abundance of taxa that feed on edaphic or epiphytic microalgae (Wainright et al. 2000) or that inhabit intertidal, standing-water microhabitats resulting from the high microtopograpic relief of the Spartina marsh (Kneib 1997,…”
• Diversity of benthic organic matter flows through polychaetes and crabs in a mangrove estuary: δ13C and δ34S signals (2002, background): “…likely to interact trophically since both the nereid polychaetes and fiddler crabs reportedly feed mainly on benthic diatoms; however, they also have the capability of tak- ing small living animals (Macnae 1968, Fauchald & Jumars 1979, Tsuchiya & Kurihara 1979, Kikuchi & Wada 1996, Wilson 2000).”
• Mechanisms of marsh habitat alteration due toPhragmites: Response of young-of-the-year mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) to treatment forPhragmites removal (2003, background): “…composition may not differ relative to other vegetation types (Fell et al. 1998; Meyer et al. 2001), that F. heteroclitus may feed in Phragmites marshes (Fell et al. 1998), and that Phragmites may be contributing to food chains for this species and to marsh food webs (Wainright et al. 2000).”
• Spatial shifts in food sources for macrozoobenthos in an estuarine ecosystem: Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses (2005, background): “Thus, the roles of some macrozoobenthos in an estuarine food web are likely to change spatially, although few studies have examined this (but Wainright et al., 2000).”
• Isotopic evidence for phytoplankton as a major food source for macrobenthos on an intertidal sandflat in Ariake Sound, Japan (2005, background): “For instance, several investigations have revealed the potential for vascular plants in wetlands (e.g. Wainright et al. 2000), riverine terrestrial organic matter (e.g. Incze et al. 1982, Kikuchi & Wada 1996, Riera & Richard 1996, 1997, Fry 1999), seaweeds (e.g. Adin & Riera 2003), seagrass…”