Whole-lake carbon-13 additions reveal terrestrial support of aquatic food webs

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6971, 2004, Pages 240-243

  Pace, Michael L ^a   Cole, Jonathan J ^a   Carpenter, Stephen R ^b   Kitchell, James F ^b   Hodgson, James R ^c   Van De Bogert, Matthew C ^a   Bade, Darren L ^b   Kritzberg, Emma S ^d   Bastviken, David ^e  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c ST NORBERT COLLEGE   (United States)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; CARBON; LAKES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

FOOD WEBS; ORGANIC CARBON;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CARBON 13; ORGANIC MATTER;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CARBON ISOTOPE; FOOD WEB; ORGANIC CARBON;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; LAKE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; DAPHNIA; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; MICHIGAN; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 1642553411     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02227     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Polis, G. A., Anderson, W. B. & Holt, R. D. Toward an integration of landscape and food web ecology: the dynamics of spatially subsidized food webs. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 28, 289-316 (1997).
2. Nakano, S. & Murakami, M. Reciprocal subsidies: dynamic interdependence between terrestrial and aquatic food webs. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. 98, 166-170 (2001).
3. Cyr, H. & Pace, M. L. Magnitude and patterns of herbivory in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Nature 361, 148-150 (1993).
4. Wetzel, R. G. Death, detritus, and energy flow in aquatic ecosystems. Freshw. Biol. 33, 83-89 (1995).
5. Lindeman, R. L. The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology. Ecology 23, 399-418 (1942).
6. Kalff, J. Limnology: Inland Water Ecosystems 366-368 (Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002).
7. Birge, E. A. & Juday, C. The organic content of the water of small lakes. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 66, 357-372 (1927).
8. Cole, J. J., Pace, M. L., Carpenter, S. R. & Kitchell, J. F. Persistence of net heterotrophy in lakes during nutrient addition and food web manipulations. Limnol. Oceanogr. 45, 1718-1730 (2000).
9. Hessen, D. O. in Aquatic Humic Substances (eds Hessen, D. O & Tranvik, L. J.) 285-315 (Springer, New York, 1998).
10. Grey, J., Jones, R. I. & Sleep, D. Seasonal changes in the importance of the source of organic matter to the diet of zooplankton in Loch Ness, as indicated by stable isotope analysis. Limnol. Oceanogr. 46, 505-513 (2001).
11. Tranvik, L. J. in Aquatic Humic Substances (eds Hessen, D. O & Tranvik, L. J.) 259-283 (Springer, New York, 1998).
12. Roditi, H. A., Fisher, N. S. & Sanudo-Wilbelmy, S. A. Uptake of dissolved organic carbon and trace elements by zebra mussels. Nature 407, 78-80 (2000).
13. Kerner, M. et al. Self-organization of dissolved organic matter to micelle-like microparticles in river water. Nature 422, 150-154 (2003).
14. Wallace, J. B., Eggert, S. L., Meyer, J. L. & Webster, J. R. Multiple trophic levels of a forest stream linked to terrestrial litter inputs. Science 277, 102-104 (1997).
15. Peterson, B. J., Howarth, R. W. & Garritt, R. H. Multiple stable isotopes used to trace organic matter in estuarine food webs. Science 227, 1361-1363 (1985).
16. 13C addition and coupled model. Limnol. Oceanogr. 47, 1664-1675 (2002).
17. Carpenter, S. R. & Kitchell, J. F. (eds) The Trophic Cascade in Lakes (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1993).
18. aq: theoretical considerations and experimental results. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59, 1131-1138 (1995).
19. Mook, W. G., Bimmerson, J. C. & Staverman, W. H. Carbon isotope fractionation between dissolved bicarbonate and gaseous carbon dioxide. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 22, 169-176 (1974).
20. 13C in nature and in the laboratory: growth rate effects in some haptophyte algae. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 11, 279-292 (1997).
21. Jones, R. I., Grey, J., Sleep, D. & Arvola, L. Stable isotope analysis of zooplankton carbon nutrition in humic lakes. Oikos 86, 97-104 (1999).
22. Bastviken, D., Ejlertsson, J., Sundh, I. & Tranvik, L. Methane as a source of carbon and energy for lake pelagic food webs. Ecology 84, 1000-1012 (2003).
23. Post, D. M. et al. Seasonal effects of variable recruitment of a dominant piscivore on pelagic food web structure. Limnol. Oceanogr. 42, 722-729 (1997).
24. Cole, J. J., Caraco, N. F. & Likens, G. E. Short-range atmospheric transport: A significant source of phosphorous to an oligotrophic lake. Limnol. Oceanogr. 35, 1230-1237 (1990).
25. Cole, J. J & Pace, M. L. Hydrologic variability of small, northern lakes measured by the addition of tracers. Ecosystems 1, 310-320 (1998).
26. Hilborn, R. & Mangel, M. The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data 114-117 (Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1997).
27. Burham, K. P. & Anderson, D. R. Model Selection and Inference: a Practical Information Theoretic Approach (Springer, New York, 1998).
28. Efron, B. & Tibshirani, R. J. An Introduction to the Bootstrap (Chapman & Hall, New York, 1993).