Biodiversity and ecosystem processes in freshwater sediments

Ambio

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 571-577

  Palmer, Margaret A ^a,m   Covich, Alan P ^a,l   Finlay, Bland J ^a,k   Gibert, Janine ^a,j   Hyde, Kevin D ^a,i   Johnson, Richard K ^a,h   Kairesalo, Timo ^a,g   Lake, Sam ^a,f   Lovell, Charles R ^a,e   Naiman, Robert J ^a,d   Ricci, Claudia ^a,c   Sabater, Francesc ^a,b   Strayer, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^h MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^m CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT;

EID: 0031458143     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Naiman, R.J., Magnuson, J.J., McKnight, D.M. and Stanford, J.A. 1995. The Freshwater Imperative. Island Press, Washington, DC.
2. Freckman, D.W. et al. 1997. Linking biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of soils and sediments. Ambio 26,556-562.
3. Hawksworth, D.L. and Kalin-Arroyo, M.T. 1995. Magnitude and distribution of biodiversity. In: Global Biodiversity Assessment. Heywood, V.U. and Watson, R.T.(eds). Published for the United Nations Environment Programme, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 107-192.
4. Ricci, C. 1987. Ecology of bdelloids: how to be successful. Hydrobiologia 147, 117-127.
5. Thorp, J.H. and Covich, A.P. 1991. Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates. Academic Press, New York.
6. Finlay, B.J., Corliss, J.O., Esteban, G. F. and Fenchel, T. 1996. Biodiversity at the microbial level: the number of free-living ciliates in the biosphere. Quart. Rev. Biol. 71, 221-237.
7. Fenchel, T, Esteban, G.F. and Finlay, B.J. 1997. Local versus global diversity of micro-organisms. Oikos. (In press).
8. Palmer, M.A. and Strayer, D.L. 1996. Meiofauna In: Methods in Stream Ecology. Hauer, F.R. and Lamberti, O.A. (eds). Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 315-337.
9. Frey, D.G. 1986. The taxonomy and biogeography of the Cladocera. Hydrobiologia 145, 5-17.
10. Botosaneanu, L. (ed.). 1986. Stygofauna Hundi. Brill, London, 740 pp.
11. Strayer, D.L. 1994. Limits to biological distributions in groundwater. In: Groundwater Ecology. Gibert, J., Danielopol, D.L. and Stanford, J.A. (eds). Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 287-310.
12. Stein, B.A. and Flack, S.R. 1997. Species Report Card: The State of US. Plants and Animals. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, 26 pp.
13. Ward, J.V., Voelz, N.J. and Marmorner, P. 1992. Groundwater faunas at riverine sites receiving treated sewage effluent. In: Ground Water Ecology. Stanford, J.A. and Simons, J.J. (eds). American Water Res. Assoc., Bethesda, pp. 351-364.
14. Fenchel, T. and B.J. Finlay. 1995. Ecology and Evolution in Anoxia Worlds. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 276 pp.
15. Chergui, H. and Pattee, E. 1991. The breakdown of wood in the side arm of a large river: preliminary investigations. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 24,1785-1788.
16. Lock, M.A. 1993. Attached microbial communities in rivers In: Aquatic Microbiology: An Ecological Approach. Ford, T.E. (ed.). Blackwell Scientific, Cambridge, pp. 113-138.
17. Webster, J.R. and Meyer, J.L. 1997. Stream organic matter budgets-introduction. J. North Amer. Ben. Soc. 16, 3-161
18. Fenchel, T. and Harrison, P. 1976. The significance of bacterial grazing and mineral cycling for the decomposition of particulate detritus. In: The Role of Terrestrial and Aquatic Organisms in Decomposition Processes. Anderson, J.M., and McFadyen, A. (eds). Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 285-299.
19. Van de Bund, W.J., Goedkoop, W. and Johnson, R.K. 1994. Effects of deposit-feeder. activity on bacterial production and abundance in profundal lake sediment. J. North Amer. Ben. Soc. 13, 532-539.
20. Husmann, S. 1978. Die Bedeutung der Gnindwasserfauna für biologisches Reinigungsvorgunge im Interstitial von Lockergesteinen. G\VF Wasser Abwasser 199, 293-302.
21. Danielopol, D.L. 1989. Groundwater fauna associated with riverine aquifers. J. N. Amer. Ben. Soc. 8, 18-35.
22. Naiman, R.J. and Rogers, R.A. 1997. Large animals and the maintenance of system-level characteristics in river corridors. BioScience 47,521-529.
23. Petr, T. 1977. Bioturbation and exchange of materials in the mud-water interface. In: Interactions Between Sediments and Fresh Water, Golterman, H. (ed.). W. Junk Press, pp. 216-226.
24. Kelts, K. and Hsu, K. 1978. Freshwater carbonate sedimentation. In: Late chemistry. Geology and Physics. Lerman, A. (ed.). Springer Verlag, New York, pp. 295-322.
25. Dacey, J.W.H. and Klug, M.J. 1979. Methane efflux from lake sediments through water lilies. Science 203, 1253-1255.
26. Plénet, S. 1993. Sensibilité et rôle des Invertébrés vis àvis d'un stress métallique à l'interface eau superficielle/eau souterraine. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Lyon 1, France 184 pp.
27. Pfennig, N. 1989. Ecology of phototrophic purple and green sulfur bacteria. In: Autotrophic Bacteria. Schlegel, H.G. and Bowien, B. (eds). Springer Verlag, New York, pp. 97-116.
28. Hansen, R.S., Bratina, B.J. and Brusseau, O.A. 1993. Phylogeny and ecology of methylotrophic bacteria. In: Microbial growth on Cl Compounds. Murrell, J.C. and Kelly, O.P. (eds). Intercept, Andover, pp.285-302.
29. Bock, E., Koops, H.-P. and Hams, H. 1989. Nitrifying bacteria. In: Autotrophic Bacteria. Schlegel, H.G. and Bowien, B. (eds). Springer Verlag, New York, pp. 81-96.
30. Sweerts, J.-P.R.A., Bar-Gilissen, M.-J., Comelese, A.A., Cappenberg, T.E. 1991. Oxygen-consuming processes at the profundal and littoral sediment-water interface of a small meso-eutrophic lake (Lake Vechten, The Netherlands). Limnol. Oceanogr. 36, 1124-1133.
31. Lovely, D.R. and M.J. Klug. 1983. Sulfate reducers can outcompete methanogens at freshwater sulfate concentrations. Appl. Environ, Microbiol. 45, 187-192.
32. Kiene, R.P. 1991. Production and consumption of methane in aquatic systems. In: Microbial Production and Consumption of Greenhouse Gases: Methane, Nitrogen Oxides, and Halomethanes. Rogers, J.E. and Whitman, W.B. (eds). ASM Press, Washington, DC, pp. 111-146.
33. Schindler, D.W. 1988. Experimental studies of chemical Stressors on whole lake ecosystems. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 23, 11-41.
34. Scheffee, M., Hosper, S.H., Meijer, M-L., Moss, B. and Jepppesen, E. 1993. Alternative equilibria in shallow lakes. Trends Ecol. Evol. S, 275-279.
35. Bender, E.A, Case, TJ. and Gilpin, M.E. 1984. Perturbation experiments in community ecology: theory and practice. Ecology 65,1-13.
36. Lake, P.S. and Underwood, A.J. 1995. Environmental disturbances and scale of measurement: the scales are mostly in front of your eyes. Abstracts of the Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Scaling of Ecological Processes in Freshwater Ecosystems. Monash University, Clayton, Australia.
37. Allan, J. D. and Flecker, A.S. 1993. Biodiversity conservation in running waters. BioScience 43, 32-43.
38. Lodge, D.M., Kershner, M.W., Aloi, J.E. and Covich, A. P. 1994. Direct and indirect effects of an omnivorous crayfish (Orconectes rusticus) on a freshwater littoral food web. Ecology 75,532-547.
39. Nalepa, T.F. and Schloesser, D.W. (eds). 1993. Zebra Mussels: Biology, Impacts, and Controls. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida.
40. Kelly, J.R. and Harwell, M.A. 1990. Indicators of ecosystem recovery. Environ. Afgmt 74,527-545.
41. Palmer, M.A., Allan, J.D. and Butman, C.A. 1996. Dispersal as a regional process affecting the local dynamics of marine and stream invertebrates. Trends Ecol. Evol. 11, 322-326.
42. Dole-OIivier, J.J., Marmonier, P. and Beffy, J.L. 1997. Response of invertebrates to lotie disturbance: is the hyporheic zone a patchy refugium. Freshwater Biol. 37, 257-276.
43. Davies, I.J. 1989. Population collapse of the crayfish Orconectes virilis in response to experimental whole-lake acidification. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sei. 46,910-922.
44. Charnier, A.C. 1987. Effects of pH on microbial degradation of leaf litter in seven streams of the English Lake District. Oecologia 71,491-500.
45. Wallace, J.B., Cuffney, T.F., Webster, J.R., Lugthart, G.J., Chung, K. and Goldowitz, B.S. 1991. Five-year study of export of fine organic particles from headwater streams: effects of season, extreme discharges, and invertebrate manipulations. Limnol. Oceanogr. 36,670-682.
46. Fisher, S.O., Gray, L.J., Grimm, N.B. and Busch, D.E. 1982. Temporal succession in a desert stream ecosystem following flash flooding. Ecol. Monogr. 52,93-110.
47. Bourrelly, P. 1981. Les algues d'eau douce. Tome lis Les algues jaunes et brunes: chrysophyc.es, pheophyc.es, Kanihophyc.es et diatom.es. N. Boubee, Paris.
48. Bourrelly, P. 1985. Les algues d'eau douce. Tome III: Les algues bleues et rouges: les eugleniens, peridiniens et cryplomonadines. N. Boubee, Paris.
49. Bourrelly, P. 1990. Les algues d'eau douce. Tome I: Les algues vertes. N. Boubee, Paris.
50. Hutchinson, G.E. 1967. A treatise on Limnology. Volume 2: Introduction to Lake Biology and the Limnoplankton. Wiley, New York.
51. Hutchinson, G.E. 1975. A Treatise on Limnology. Volume 3: Limnological Botany. Wiley, New York.
52. Hutchinson, G.E. 1993. A Treatise on Limnology. Volume 4: The Zoobenthos. Wiley, New York.
53. Parker, S.P. 1982. (ed.). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw Hill, New York.
54. Goh, T.K. and Hyde, K.D. 1996. Biodiversity of freshwater fungi. J. Ind. Microbiol. 17,328-345.
55. Hyde, K.D., Wong, S.W. and Jones, E.B.G. 1997. Freshwater ascomycetes. In: Biodiversity of Tropical Microfungi. Hyde, K.D. (éd.). Hong Kong Univ. Press, Hong Kong, pp. 179-187.
56. Stock, M.S. 1995. The ecological and historical determinants of crustacean diversity in groundwaters: why are there so many species? Mem. de Biospeologie 22,139-160.
57. Sket, B. 1996. Biotic diversity of hypogean habitats in Slovenia and its cultural importance. In: International Biodiveristy Seminar. Ecco XIV. Meeting Gozd. Martuljek, June 30-July4,1995, pp. 50-74.
58. Rouch, R. and D.L. Danielopol. 1997. Species richness of microcrustacea in subterranean freshwater habitats. Comparative analysis and approximate evaluation. Int. Rev. ges. Hydrobiol. 82,121-145.
59. Strayer, D.L. 1985. The benthic micrometazoans of Mirror Lake, New Hampshire. Arch Hydrobiol. Suppl. 72,287-426.
60. Acknowledgements. The authors are grateful to the freshwater domain editorial committee: Alan Covich, Sam Lake, David Strayer and Janine Gibert.