Allochthonous aquatic insects increase predation and decrease herbivory in river shore food webs

By J. Henschel, D. Mahsberg, H. Stumpf. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

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2. K. Fausch
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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

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2. K. Fausch
3. C. Baxter
4. Chika Kato
5. E. Wada
6. W. Saunders
7. M. Murakami
8. S. Nakano

Citations in the corpus

• Prey use by web-building spiders: stable isotope analyses of trophic flow at a forest-stream ecotone (2004, background): “Henschel et al. (2001) further demonstrated the essential role of emerging aquatic insects and spiders in riparian food webs by showing that aquatic insect flux promotes aggregation of spiders along stream edges, which in turn depresses terrestrial herbivore populations (e.g. leafhoppers).”
• Linking stream habitats and spider distribution: spatial variations in trophic transfer across a forest–stream boundary (2007, background): “Riparian predators supported by aquatic insects have been demonstrated to depress in situ terrestrial prey populations, and such topdown effects may occasionally cascade to lower trophic levels (Henschel et al. 2001).”
• Tangled webs: reciprocal flows of invertebrate prey link streams and riparian zones (2005, background): “Henschel et al. (2001) and Iwata et al. (2003) also made direct observations of prey use by spiders and birds, respectively, and found that aquatic prey made up 54% of spider diets and 67–82% of bird diets along the lotic systems they studied.”
• Stream meanders increase insectivorous bird abundance in riparian deciduous forests (2003, background): “…that because only 3% of the biomass of emergent aquatic insects returned to the stream, most of them were preyed upon by a variety of terrestrial insectivores, such as birds, bats, spiders and lizards (see also Gray 1993, Power and Rainey 2000, Gende and Willson 2001, Henschel et al. 2001).”
• Dynamics of aquatic insect flux affects distribution of riparian web-building spiders (2003, background): “Henschel et al. (2001) demonstrated that web-building spiders enhanced by aquatic insects depressed terrestrial herbivore populations (such as leafhoppers), in turn releasing riparian plants from grazing pressure.”
• Ecology of freshwater shore zones (2010, background): “Interestingly, the emergence of aquatic insects may increase the populations of terrestrial predators in the shore zone enough to suppress populations of terrestrial herbivores (Henschel et al. 2001).”
• Food source of riparian spiders analyzed by using stable isotope ratios (2004, background): “However, terrestrial consumers at lower trophic level decreased as a result of the increase in their predators caused by the supply of aquatic insects ( Henschel et al. 2001; Sabo & Power 2002).”