Trophic relations in a stream food web: importance of fatty acids for macroinvertebrate consumers

By Mónica Torres-Ruíz, J. Wehr, Alissa A. Perrone. Journal of The North American Benthological Society, 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. Y. Vadeboncoeur
2. M. Kainz
3. Stuart E. Bunn
4. Michael T. Brett
5. Fen Guo
6. F. Sheldon
7. S. Taipale
8. T. Vrede

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Y. Vadeboncoeur
2. M. Kainz
3. Stuart E. Bunn
4. J. Rasmussen
5. F. Sheldon
6. Fen Guo
7. M. Power
8. Michael T. Brett

Citations in the corpus

• The Various Roles of Fatty Acids (2018, background): “For instance, in a small forested stream, the FA content and profile of: (i) autochthonous food sources such as periphyton, green algae, red algae and bryophytes; (ii) allochthonous food resources resulting from benthic and transported organic matter; and (iii) macroinvertebrate consumers, can be us”
• Fatty Acid Ratios in Freshwater Fish, Zooplankton and Zoobenthos – Are There Specific Optima? (2009, background): “5 (Bell et al. 1994 ; Goedkoop et al. 2000 ; Torres-Ruiz et al. 2007) and only traces of DHA (Bell et al.”
• How important are terrestrial organic carbon inputs for secondary production in freshwater ecosystems (2017, background): “…of primary producers varies tremendously between terrestrial and aquatic basal resources and even within algal groups (Guschina & Harwood, 2006; Torres-Ruiz et al., 2007; Brett et al., 2009; Galloway & Winder, 2015; Guo, Kainz, Sheldon & Bunn, 2015; Hixson, Sharma, Kainz, Wacker & Arts, 2015).”
• The importance of high-quality algal food sources in stream food webs - current status and future perspectives (2016, methodology): “…been recognised as higher quality food sources than terrestrial matter for the growth and reproduction of invertebrates because of their lower C : N and C : P ratios (Frost & Elser, 2002; Cross et al., 2005; Lau et al., 2009a) and higher PUFA content (Torres-Ruiz et al., 2007; Lau et al., 2009a).”
• Attached Algae: The Cryptic Base of Inverted Trophic Pyramids in Freshwaters (2017, background): “Fatty acid analysis of stream invertebrate assemblages across systems points to a strong reliance on attached algae despite the abundance of terrestrial organic matter in rivers (Torres-Ruiz et al. 2007; Lau et al. 2009, 2014; Guo et al. 2016a; Brett et al. 2017).”
• High-quality algae attached to leaf litter boost invertebrate shredder growth (2016, background): “…of long- chain SAFAs (i.e., 20 ∶ 0, 22 ∶ 0 and 24 ∶ 0) as a biomarker of terrestrial C (terrFA), and 16 ∶ 1ω7 as a biomarker of diatoms (Napolitano et al. 1994, Torres-Ruiz et al. 2007) to explore the nutritional role of high-quality algae attached to leaf litter in invertebrate shredder growth.”