IV. Litter Breakdown and Streams Long-Term Patterns in Leaf Breakdown in Streams in Response to Watershed Logging

By E. F. Benfield, J. Webster, J. Tank, J. Hutchens. 2001

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Litter quality, stream characteristics and litter diversity influence decomposition rates and macroinvertebrates (2006, background): “…rate of the same species differs among streams (Carpenter, Odum & Mills, 1983; Minshall et al., 1983; Benfield et al., 1991), whereas others show no such interaction (Francis et al., 1983; Cortes, Graça & Monzón, 1994; Whiles & Wallace, 1997; Pozo et al., 1998; Benfield et al., 2001).”
Resource quality and stoichiometric constraints on stream ecosystem functioning (2009, background): “…riparian vegetation (Cummins et al., 1989), which is itself influenced by a range of natural and anthropogenic factors, including forest succession (Benfield et al., 2001), invasions of exotic species (Lecerf et al., 2007a) and species replacement (e.g. forestry plantations: Graça et al., 2002).”
Leaf decomposition and invertebrate colonization responses to manipulated litter quantity in streams (2008, background): “This hypothesis proposes that shredders would aggregate most in litter bags exposed in resource-depleted environments (e.g., Benfield et al. 2001, Rowe and Richardson 2001), whereas shredders would be distributed across a larger number of resource islands in control reaches and, especially, in…”