Trophic relationships: Integrating meiofauna into a realistic benthic food web

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 149-163

  Schmid Araya, J M ^a   Schmid, P E ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feeding habits; Meiofauna; Stream food webs; Trophic relationships

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; FOOD WEB; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; MEIOFAUNA; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 0034090395     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.2000.00594.x     Document Type: Article

References (107)

1. Adamicka P.S. (1991) A food schedule for Cottus gobio L. (Pisces) in Oberer Seebach, Ritrodat-Lunz study area, Austria. Verhandlungen der Internationalen Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, 24, 1941-1943.
2. Admiraal W., Bouwman L.A., Hoekstra L. & Romeyn K. (1983) Qualitative and quantitative interactions between mycrophytobenthos and herbivorous meiofauna on brackish intertidal mudflat. Internationale Revue der Gesamten Hydrobiologie, 68, 175-191.
3. Anderson N.H. & Cummins K.W. (1979) Influences of diet on life histories of aquatic insects. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board Canada, 36, 335-342.
4. Arndt H. (1993) Rotifers as predators on components of the microbial web (bacteria, heterotrophic flagellates, ciliates) - a review. Hydrobiologia, 255/256, 231-246.
5. Baker A.S. & McMachlan A.J. (1979) Food preferences in Tanypodinae larvae (Diptera: Chironomidae). Hydrobiologia, 62, 283-288.
6. Banser K. & Mosher S. (1980) Adult body mass and annual production/biomass relationships of field populations. Ecological Monographs, 50, 355-379.
7. Bell S.S. & Coull B.C. (1978) Field evidence that shrimp predation regulates meiofauna. Oecologia (Berlin), 35, 141-148.
8. Borchardt M.A. & Bott T.L. (1995) Meiofaunal grazing of bacteria and algae in a Piedmont stream. Journal of the North American Benthological Society of, 14, 278-298.
9. Bregnalle F. (1961) Plaice and flounder as consumers of the microscopic bottom fauna. Meddelelser Fra Danmarks Fiskeri-Og Havundersøgelser, 3, 133-182.
10. Briand F. (1983) Environmental control of food web structure. Ecology, 64, 253-263.
11. Briand F. & Cohen J.E. (1987) Environmental correlates of food chain length. Science, 238, 956-960.
12. Brooks J.L. & Dodson S.I. (1965) Predation, body size, and composition of the plankton. Science, 150, 28-35.
13. Brown T.J. & Sibert J.R. (1977) The food of some benthic harpacticoid copepods. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board Canada, 34, 1028-1031.
14. Carman K.R. & Thistle D. (1985) Microbial loop partitioning by three species of benthic copepods. Marine Biology, 88, 143-148.
15. Carney H.J., Havens K.E. & Bersier L.F. (1997) Nonlinear scale dependence and spatiotemporal variability in planktonic food webs. Oikos, 79, 230-240.
16. Carpenter S.R., Kitchell J.F. & Hodgson J.R. (1985) Cascading trophic interactions and lake productivity. Bioscience, 35, 634-639.
17. Closs G.P. & Lake P.S. (1994) Spatial and temporal variation in the structure of an intermittent-stream food web. Ecological Monographs, 64, 1-21.
18. Coffman W.P. & Ferrington L.C. Jr (1984) Chironomidae. An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America (Eds R.W. Merrit and K.W. Cummins), pp. 551-652. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Iowa.
19. Crisp G. & Lloyd Ll. (1954) The community offsets in a patch of woodland mud. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 105, 269-276.
20. Cummins K.W. (1974) Structure and function of stream ecosystems. Bioscience, 24, 631-641.
21. Dash M.C. & Cragg J.B. (1972) Selection of microfungi by Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta) and other members of the soil fauna. Pedobiologia, 12, 282-286.
22. De Morais L.T. & Bodiu J.Y. (1984) Predation on meiofauna by juvenile fish in a Western Mediterranean flatfish nursery. Marine Biology, 82, 209-215.
23. Dole-Olivier M.J., Galassi D.M.P., Marmonier P. & Creuzé des Châtellier M. (2000) The biology and ecology of lotic microcrustaceans. Freshwater Biology, 44, 63-91.
24. Ducklow H.W. (1994) Modeling the microbial food web. Microbial Ecology, 28, 303-319.
25. Duncan A., Schiemer F. & Klekowski R.Z. (1974) A preliminary study of feeding rates on bacterial food by adult females of the benthic nematode, Plectus palustris De Man 1880. Polska Archiwum Hydrobiologii, 21, 249-258.
26. Dusoge K. (1980) The occurrence and role of the predatory larvae of Procladius Skuse (Chironomidae, Diptera) in the benthos of Lake Sniardwy. Ekologia Polska, 28, 155-186.
27. Eisenmann H., Traunspurger W. & Meyer E.I. (1997) A new device to extract sediment cages colonized by microfauna from coarse gravel river sediments. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 139, 547-561.
28. Escavarage V., Garcia M.E. & Castel J. 1989) The distribution of meiofauna and its contribution to detritic path ways in tidal flats (Archachon Bay, France). Scientia Marina, 53, 551-559.
29. Feminella J.M. & Stewart K.W. (1986) Diet and predation by three leaf associated stoneflies (Plecoptera) in an Arkansas mountain stream. Freshwater Biology, 16, 521-538.
30. Fenchel T. (1969) The ecology of the marine microbenthos. IV. Structure and function of the benthic ecosystem, its chemical and physical factors and the microfauna communities with special reference to the ciliate Protozoa. Ophelia, 6, 1-182.
31. Fenchel T. (1970) Studies on the decomposition of organic detritus derived from the turtlegrass Thalassia testudinum. Limnology and Oceanography, 15, 14-20.
32. Findlay S. & Tenore K.R. (1982) Effect of a free-living marine nematode (Diplolaimella chitwoodi) on detrital carbon mineralization. Marine Ecology Progress in Series, 8, 161-166.
33. Fryer G. (1957) The feeding mechanism of some freshwater Cyclopoid Copepods. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 129, 1-25.
34. Gerlach S.A. & Schrage M. (1969) Freilebende nematoden als Nahrungs der Sandgarnele Crangon crangon. Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Meiofauna als Nahrung für das marine Makrobenthos. Oecologia, 2, 362-375.
35. Giere O. (1993) Meiobenthology. The Microscopic Fauna in Aquatic Sediments Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
36. Hakenkamp C.C. & Morin A. (2000) The importance of meiofauna to lotic ecosystem functioning. Freshwater Biology, 44, 165-175.
37. Hargrave B.T. (1972) Aerobic decomposition of sediment and detritus as a function of particle surface area and organic content. Limnology and Oceanography, 17, 583-596.
38. Hildrew A.G., Townsend C.R. & Hasham A. (1985) The predatory Chironomidae of an iron-rich stream: feeding ecology and food web structure. Ecological Entomology, 10, 403-413.
39. Hildrew, A.G. (1992) Food web and species interactions. The Rivers Handbook (Eds P. Calow and G.E. Petts), pp. 309-330. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford.
40. Hollowday E.D. (1949) On the capture of plankton Rotifera as food by heliozoan Actinosphaerium eichhorni. Journal of Quekett Microscopical Club, 4, 362-363.
41. Hollowday E.D. (1979) The capture and ingestion of the plankton rotifer Asplanchna priodonta Gosse by the holotrichous ciliate Trachelius. Microscopy, 33, 535-538.
42. Jensen P. (1987) Feeding ecology of free-living aquatic nematodes. Marine Ecology Progress in Series, 35, 187-196.
43. Kaczynski V.W., Feller R.J., Clayton J. & Gerke R.J. (1973) Trophic analysis of juvenile pink and chum salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha and O. keta) in Puget Sound. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board Canada, 30, 1003-1008.
44. Kajak Z. (1980) Role ofvertebrate predators (mainly Procladius sp.) in benthos. Chironomidae: Ecology, Systematics, Cytology, and Physiology (Ed. D. Murray), pp. 339-348. Pergamon Press, New York.
45. Kasimir G. (1990) Mikrobiologische Untersuchungen im Lunzer Seebach. Jahresbericht Biologische Station Lunz, 12, 55-69.
46. Kolasa J. (1991) Turbellaria. Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, (Eds J.H. Thorp and A.P. Covich), pp. 145-163. Academic Press, New York.
47. Kolasa J. (2000) The biology and ecology of lotic microturbellarians. Freshwater Biology, 44, this issue.
48. Koste W. (1978) Rotatoria. Die Rädertiere Mitteleuropas. Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin
49. Lampert W. (1978) Release of dissolved organic carbon by grazing zooplankton. Limnology and Oceanography, 23, 831-834.
50. Lancaster J. & Robertson A. (1995) Microcrustacean prey and macroinvertebrate predators in a stream food web. Freshwater Biology, 34, 123-134.
51. Leichtfried M. (1991) POM in a gravel stream (Ritrodat-Lunz Study Area, Austria, Europe). Verhandlungen der Internationalen Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, 24, 1921-1925.
52. Lindeman R.L. (1942) The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology. Ecology, 23, 399-418.
53. Loden M. (1974) Predation by chironomid (Diptera) larvae on oligochetes. Limnology and Oceanography, 19, 156-159.
54. Lodge D.M., Barko J.W., Strayer D., Melack J.M., Mittelbach G.G., Howarth R.W., Menge B. & Titus J.E. (1988) Spatial heterogeneity and habitat interactions in lake commmunities. Complex Interactions in Lake Communities (Ed. S.R. Carpenter), pp. 181-208. Springer-Verlag, New York.
55. Lucy F., Costello M.J. &Giller P.S. (1990) Diet of Dinocras cephalotes and Perla bipunctata (Plecoptera, Perlidae) in a South-West Irish stream. Aquatic Insects, 12, 199-207.
56. Malmqvist E., Sjöström P. & Frick K. (1991) The diet of two species of Isoperla (Plecoptera: Perlodidae) in relation to season, site, and sympatry. Hydrobiologia, 213, 191-203.
57. Marcotte M. (1984) Behaviourally defined resources and speciation in Tisbe (Copepoda: Harpacticoida). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 4, 404-416.
58. Martinez N. (1991) Artifacts or attributes? effects of resolution on the Little Rock Lake food web. Ecological Monographs, 61, 367-392.
59. Mc Intyre A.D. (1969) Ecology of marine meiobenthos. Biological Reviews, 44, 245-290.
60. Meyer J.L. (1994) The microbial loop in flowing waters. Microbial Ecology, 28, 195-199.
61. Meyer-Reil L.-A. & Faubel A. (1980) Uptake of organic matter by meiofauna organisms and interrelationships with bacteria. Marine Ecology Progress in Series, 3, 251-256.
62. Meyl A.H. (1961) Fadenwürmer (Nematoden). Einführung in die Kleinlebewelt. Franckh.sche-Verlagshandlung, W. Keller, Stuttgart.
63. Montagna P.A. (1984) In situ measurements of meiobenthic grazing rates on sediment bacteria and edaphic diatoms. Marine Ecology Progress in Series, 18, 119-130.
64. Moore J.W. (1979) Some factors influencing the distribution, seasonal abundance and feeding of subarctic Chironomidae (Diptera). Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 85, 302-325.
65. O'Doherty E.C. (1988) The ecology of meiofauna in an Appalachian headwater stream. PhD Dissertation, University of Georgia.
66. Orcutt J.D. & Pace M.L. (1984) Seasonal dynamics of rotifers and crustacean zooplankton populations in a eutrophic monomictic lake with a note on rotifer sampling. Hydrobiologia, 119, 73-80.
67. Pace M.L. & Cole J.J. (1994) Comparative and experimental approaches to top-down and bottom-up regulation of bacteria. Microbial Ecology, 28, 181-193.
68. Pace M.L. & Orcutt J.D. (1981) The relative importance of protozoans, rotifers, and crustaceans in a freshwater zooplankton community. Limnology and Oceanography, 26, 822-830.
69. Perlmutter D.G. & Meyer J.L. (1991) The impact of a stream-dwelling harpacticoid copepod upon detritally-associated bacteria. Ecology, 72, 2170-2180.
70. Pomeroy L.R. (1974) The ocean's food web, a changing paradigm. Bioscience, 24, 499-504.
71. Pomeroy L.R. (1979) Secondary production mechanisms of continental shelf communities. Ecological Processes in Coastal and Marine Systems (Ed. R.J. Livingston), pp. 163-186. Plenum Press, New York.
72. Porter K.G., Paerl H., Hodson R., Pace M.L., Priscu J., Riemann B., Scavia D. & Stockner J. (1988) Microbial interactions in lake food webs. Complex Interactions in Lake Communities (Ed. S.R. Carpenter), pp. 209-227. Springer-Verlag, New York.
73. Pourriot R. (1965) Recherches sur l'ecologie des rotiferes. Vie et Millieu, (Suppl. 21), 1-224.
74. Pourriot R. (1977) Food and feeding habits of Rotifera. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 8, 243-260.
75. Power M.E. (1990) Effects of fish in River food webs. Science, 250, 411-415.
76. Ricci C. & Balsamo M. (2000) The biology and ecology of lotic rotifers and gastrotichs. Freshwater Biology, 44, 15-28.
77. Rieman F. & Schrage M. (1978) The mucus-trap hypothesis of feeding of aquatic nematodes and implications for biodegradation and sediment texture. Oecologia, 34, 75-88.
78. Roback S.S. (1969) Notes on food of Tanypodinae larvae. Entomological News, 80, 13-18.
79. Roback S.S. (1978) The immature chironomids of the eastern United States III. Tanypodinae, Anatopyniini, Macropelopiini and Natarsiini. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 129, 151-202.
80. Robertson A.L., Rundle S.D. & Schmid-Araya. J.M. (2000) Putting the meio-into stream ecology: current findings and future directions for lotic meiofaunal research. Freshwater Biology, 44, 177-183.
81. Rundle S.D. & Hildrew A.G. (1992) Small fish and small prey in the food webs of some southern English streams. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 12, 25-35.
82. Sanders R.W. & Wickham S.A. (1993) Planktonic protozoa and metazoa: predation, food quality and population control. Marine Microbial Food Webs, 7, 197-223.
83. Schmid P.E. (1993) Random patch dynamics of larval Chironomidae (Diptera) in the bed sediments of a gravel stream. Freshwater Biology, 30, 239-255.
84. Schmid P.E. (1994) Is prey selectivity by predatory Chironomidae a random process ? Verhandlungen der Internationalen Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, 25, 1656-1660.
85. Schmid P.E. & Schmid-Araya J.M. (1997) Predation on meiobenthic assemblages: resource use of a tanypod guild (Chironomidae, Diptera) in a gravel stream. Freshwater Biology, 38, 67-91.
86. Schmid-Araya J.M. (1994) Temporal and spatial distribution of benthic microfauna in sediments of a gravel streambed. Limnology and Oceanography, 39, 1813-1821.
87. Schmid-Araya J.M. (2000) Invertebrate recolonization patterns in the hyporheic zone of a gravel stream. Limnology and Oceanography (in press).
88. Schmid-Araya J.M. & Schmid P.E. (1995) Preliminar results on diet of stream invertebrates species: the meiofaunal assemblages. Jahresbericht Biologische Station Lunz, 15, 23-31.
89. Schönborn W. (1984) The annual energy transfer from the communities of Ciliata to the population of Chaetogaster diastrophus (Gruithuisen) in the River Saale. Limnologica, 16, 15-23.
90. Sephton T.W. (1987) Some observations on the food of larvae of Procladius bellus (Diptera: Chironomidae). Aquatic Insects, 9, 195-202.
91. Sibert J.R. (1979) Detritus and juvenile salmon production in the Nanaimo Estuary: II. Meiofauna available as food for juvenile chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta). Journal of the Fisheries Research Board Canada, 36, 497-503.
92. Sibert J.R., Brown T.J., Healey M.C., Kask B.A. & Nauman R.J. (1977) Detritus-based food webs: exploitation by juvenile chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta). Science, 196, 649-650.
93. Sleigh M.A., Baldock B.M. & Baker J.H. (1992) Protozoan communities in chalk streams. Hydrobiologia, 248, 53-64.
94. Sorokin Y.I. & Paveljeva E.B. (1972) On the quantitative characteristics of the pelagic ecosystems of Dalnee Lake (Kamchatka). Hydrobiologia, 40, 519-552.
95. Spittler P. (1976) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Nahrungsauswahl von Zooplanktern eutropher Küstengewässer. Wissenschaftiche Zeitschrift Universität Rostock, Mathematik und Natur. R , 25, 305-310.
96. Stockner J. & Porter M.L. (1988) Microbial food webs in freshwater planktonic ecosystems. Complex Interactions in Lake Communities (Ed. S.R. Carpenter), pp. 69-83. Springer-Verlag, New York.
97. Strong D.R. (1992) Are trophic cascades all wet? Differentitation and donor-control in speciose ecosystems. Ecology, 73, 747-754.
98. Sugihara G., Schoenly K. & Trombla A. (1989) Scale invariance in food web properties. Science, 245, 48-52.
99. Swan C.M. & Palmer M.A. (2000) What drives small-scale spatial patterns in lotic meifauna communities? Freshwater Biology, 44, 109-121.
100. Tavares-Cromar A.F. & Williams D.D. (1996) The importance of temporal resolution in food web analysis: Evidence from a detritus-based stream. Ecological Monographs, 66, 91-113.
101. Taylor W.D. (1980) Observations on the feeding and growth of the predacious oligochaete Chateogaster langi on ciliated Protozoa. Transactions of the American Microscopy Society of, 99, 360-367.
102. Tenore K.R. & Rice D.L. (1980) A review of trophic factors affecting secondary production of deposit-feeders. Marine Benthic Dynamics (Eds K.R. Tenore and B.C. Coull), pp. 325-340. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia.
103. Tenore K.R., Tietjen J.H. & Lee J.H. (1977) Effect of meiofauna on incorporation of aged, Zostera marina, detritus by the polychaete Nephthys incisa. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board Canada, 34, 563-567.
104. Tokeshi M. (1991) On the feeding habits of Thienemannimyia festiva (Diptera: Chironomidae). Aquatic Insects, 13, 9-16.
105. Warren P.H. (1989) Spatial and temporal variation in the structure of a freshwater food web. Oikos, 55, 299-311.
106. Wetzel R.G., Rich P.H., Miller M.C. & Allen H.L. (1972) Metabolism of dissolved and particulate detrital carbon in a temperate hard-water lake. Memorie Dell' Istituto Italiano Di Idrobiologia, 29, 185-243.
107. Wiszniewski J. (1947) Remarques relatives aux recherches recentes sur le psammon d'eaux douces. Archiwum Hydrobiologii Rybactwa, 13, 7-36.