Changes in the shape of zooplankton biomass-size spectra at ecological scaling in a fluctuating ecosystem (Empordà Wetlands, NE Spain)

Vie et Milieu

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-40

  Brucet, Sandra ^a   Quintana, X D ^a   Moreno Amich, R ^a   Boix, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mediterranean coastal lagoons; Pareto model; Salt marshes; Size distribution

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; WETLAND; ZOOPLANKTON;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

EID: 18244376362     PISSN: 02408759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Ahrens MA, Peters RH 1991. Patterns and limitations in limnoplankton size spectra. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 48: 1967-1978.
2. Baca RM, Threlkeld ST 2000. Using size distributions to detect nutrient and sediment effects within and between habitats. Hydrobiologia 435: 197-211.
3. Blanco JM, Echevarria F, García CM 1994. Dealing with size-spectra: Some conceptual and mathematical problems. In J Rodríguez & WKW Li eds, The size structure and metabolism of the pelagic ecosystem. Scientia Marina 58: 17-29.
4. Boix D 2000. Estructura i dinàmica de la comunitat animal aquàtica de l'estanyol temporani d'Espolla. Doct Thesis, Univ Girona, Spain.
5. Boix D, Sala J, Quintana XD, Moreno-Amich R 2004. Succession of the animal community in a Mediterranean temporary pond. J N Am Benthol Soc 23(1): 29-49.
6. Boudreau PR, Dickie LM 1989. Biological models of fiheries production based on physiological and ecological scalings of body size. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 46: 614-623.
7. Brucet S 2003. Zooplankton structure and dynamics in Mediterranean marshes (Empordà Wetlands): a size-based approach. Doct Thesis, Univ Girona, Spain.
8. Calders WA 1984. Size, function and life History. Harvard Univ Press.
9. Dickie LM, Kerr SR, Boudreau PR 1987. Size-dependant processes underlying regularities in ecosystem structure. Ecol Monogr 57 (3): 233-250.
10. Duarte C, Agustí S, Peters RH 1987. An upper limit to the abundance of aquatic organisms. Oecologia 74: 272-276.
11. García-Jiménez C 1991. Estudio de un medio acuático fluctuante: la laguna atalasohalina de Fuente de Piedra (Málaga). Doct Thesis, Univ Málaga.
12. Gasol JM, Guerrero R, Pedrós-Alió C 1991. Seasonal variations in size structure and procaryotic dominance in sulfurous lake Cis. Limnol Oceanogr 36: 860-872.
13. Grasshoff K, Ehrhadt M, Kremling K 1983. Methods of seawater analysis. 2nd Ed Verlag Chemie, 418 p.
14. Hansen B, Bjørnsen PK, Hansen PJ 1994. The size ratio between planktonic predators and their prey. Limnol Oceanogr 39: 395-403.
15. Kerr SR, Dickie LM 2001. The biomass spectrum. A predator-prey theory of aquatic production. Complexity in ecological systems series. Columbia Univ press. New York, 315 p.
16. Krebs CJ 2001. Ecology. 5th Ed. Addison-Wesley-Longman, 617 p.
17. McQueen DJ, Post JR, Mills EL 1986. Trophic relationships in freshwater pelagic ecosystems. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 43: 1571-1581.
18. Peters RH 1983. The Ecological Implications of Body Size, Cambridge Univ Press.
19. Platt T, Denman K 1977. Organisation in the pelagic ecosystem. Helgol Wiss Meeres 30: 575-581.
20. Poulet SA 1977. Grazing of marine copepod development stages on naturally occurring particles. J Fish Res Board Can 34: 2381-2387.
21. Pueyo S 1994. Esdeveniments hidrològics extrems. In Armengol J, Pueyo S, Rodríguez MA eds, Contribucions a l'establiment de cabals de compensació per a la part valenciana de la conca del riu Xúquer. Informe per a la Direcció General de Qualitat d'Aigües del Departament de Medi Ambient de la Generalitat valenciana: 98-113.
22. Quintana XD 1995. Fluctuacions a la maresma dels Aiguamolls de l'Empordà i estructura de la comunitat biològica. Doct Thesis. Univ Girona, Spain.
23. Quintana XD, Moreno-Amich R, Comín FA 1998a. Nutrient and plankton dynamics in a Mediterranean salt marsh dominated by incidents of flooding. Part 1. Differential confinement of nutrients. J Plankton Res 20 (11): 2089-2107.
24. Quintana XD, Moreno-Amich R, Comín FA 1998b. Nutrient and plankton dynamics in a Mediterranean salt marsh dominated by incidents of flooding. Part 2. Response of the zooplankton community to disturbances. J Plankton Res 20 (11): 2109-2127.
25. Quintana XD, Comín FA, Moreno-Amich R 2002. Biomass-spectra in aquatic communities in shallow fluctuating Mediterranean salt marshes (Empordà wetlands, NE Spain). J Plankton Res 24: 1149-1161.
26. Quiñones R, Platt T, Rodríguez J 2003. Patterns of biomass-size spectra from oligotrophic waters of the Northwest Atlantic. Progr Oceanogr 57: 405-427.
27. Rodríguez J 1994. Some comments on the size-based structural analysis of the pelagic ecosystem. Sci Mar 58 (1-2): 1-10.
28. Rodríguez J, Echevarria F, Jiménez-Gómez F 1990. Physiological and ecological scalings of body size in an oligrotrophic, high mountain lake (La Caldera, Sierra Nevada, Spain. J Plankton Res 12 (3): 593-599.
29. Rodríguez J, Mullin MM 1986. Relation between biomass and body weight of plankton in a steady-state oceanic ecosystem. Limnol Oceanogr 31: 361-370.
30. Sheldon RW, Prakash A, Sutcliffe WH Jr 1972. The size distribution of particles in the ocean. Limnol Oceanogr 17: 327-340.
31. Sprules WG 1988. Effects of trophic interactions on the shape of pelagic size spectra. Int Ver Theor Angew Limnol Ver 23: 234-240.
32. Sprules WG, Goyke AP 1994. Size-based structure and production in the pelagia of lakes Ontario and michigan. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 51: 2603-2611.
33. Sprules WG, Munawar M 1986. Plankton size spectra in relation to ecosystem productivity, size and perturbation. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 43: 1789-1794.
34. Talling JF, Driver D 1963. Some problems in the estimation of chlorophyll a in phytoplankton. Proc Conf Primary Productivity Measurements, Marine and Freshwater, Univ Hawaii, 1961. U.S. Atomic Energy Comm, TID7633: 142-146.
35. Vidondo B 1996. Description and dynamics of size-structured systems. PhD thesis, Politech Univ Catalonia, 138 p.
36. Vidondo B, Prairie YT, Blanco JM, Duarte CM 1997. Some aspects of the analysis of size spectra in aquatic ecology. Limnol Oceanogr 42 (1): 184-192.
37. Wells ML, Goldberg ED 1994. The distribution of colloids in the North Atlantic and Sourthen Oceans. Limnol Oceanogr 39: 286-302.
38. Winiwarter P, Cempel C 1992. Life symptoms: the behaviour of open systems with limited energy dissipation capacity and evolution. Syst Res 9: 9-34.