Decline in the quality of suspended fine particulate matter as a food resource for chironomids downstream of an urban area

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 515-525

  Rosi Marshall, Emma J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminants; Growth rates; Seston; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

FOOD QUALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTION;

CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 2342568888     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2004.01205.x     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. APHA (1985) Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 15th edn. American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C., 1134 pp.
2. Benke A.C. & Wallace J.B. (1997) Trophic basis of production among riverine caddisflies: implications for food web analysis. Ecology, 78, 1132-1145.
3. Benke A.C., Huryn A.H., Smock L.A. & Wallace J.B. (1999) Length-mass relationships for freshwater macroinvertebrates in North America with particular reference to the southeastern United States. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 18, 308-343.
4. Breitburg D.L., Sanders J.G., Gilmor C.C., Hatfield C.A., Osman R.W., Reidel G.F., Seitzinger S.P. & Sellner K.G. (1999) Variability in responses to nutrients and trace elements, and transmission of stressor effects through an estuarine food web. Limnology and Oceanography, 44, 837-863.
5. Bremer P.J. & Geesey G.G. (1993) Interaction of bacteria with metals in the aquatic environment. In: Particulate Matter and Aquatic Contaminants (Ed. S.S. Rao), pp. 41-64. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, U.S.A.
6. Clements W.H. (1999) Metal tolerance and predator-prey interaction in benthic macroinvertebrate stream communities. Ecological Applications, 9, 1073-1084.
7. Couch C. A., Meyer J.L. & Hall R.O. (1996) Incorporation of bacterial extracellular polysaccharide in blackfly larvae (Simuliidae). Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 15, 289-299.
8. Frick E.A., Buell G.R. & Hopkins E.E. (1996) Nutrient Sources and Analysis of Nutrient Water-Quality Data, Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, 1972-90. U.S. Geological Survey 96-4101.
9. Frick E.A., Hippe D.J., Buell G.R., Couch C.A., Hopkins E.H., Wangsness D.J. & Garrett J.W. (1998). Water Quality in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee- Flint River Basin, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, 1992-95. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1164.
10. Frick E.A., Henderson A.K., Moll D.M., Furlong E.T. & Meyer M.T. (2001) Presence of pharmaceuticals in wastewater effluent and drinking water, Metropolitan Atlanta, GA, July-Sept. 1999. In: Proceedings of the Georgia Water Resources Conference (Ed. K.J. Hatcher). Published by the Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.
11. Fuller R.L. & Desmond C. (1997) Influence of food type on the growth of early and late instars of three mayfly (Ephemeroptera) species. Archiv für Hydrobiologia, 141, 1-11.
12. Fuller R.L. & Mackay R.J. (1981) Effects of food quality on the growth of three Hydropsyche species (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 59, 1133-1140.
13. Fuller R.L., Fry T.J. & Roelofs J.A., 1988. Influence of different food types on the growth of Simulium vittatum (Diptera) and Hydropsyche betteni (Trichoptera). Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 7, 197-204.
14. Gresens S.E. (1997) Interactive effects of diet and thermal regime on growth of the midge Pseudochironomus richardsoni Malloch. Freshwater Biology, 38, 365-373.
15. Hall R.O. & Meyer J.L. (1998) The trophic significance of bacteria in a detritus-based stream food web. Ecology, 79, 1995-2012.
16. Hobbie J.E., Daley R.J. & Jasper S. (1977) Use of nucleopore filters for counting bacteria by flourescence microscopy. Applied Environmental Microbiology, 33, 1224-1228.
17. Lee B.G., Griscom S.B., Lee J.S., Choi H.J., Koh C.H., Luoma S.N. & Fisher N.S. (2000) Influence of dietary uptake and reactive sulfides on metal bioavailability from aquatic sediments. Science, 287, 282-284.
18. Markosova R. (1991) Growth of bacterioplankton on dissolved organic carbon in Hamilton Harbor and Western Lake Ontario. Water Pollution and Restoration Journal of Canada, 26, 173-185.
19. Merritt R.W. & Cummins K.W. (1996) An Introduction to Aquatic Insects of North America. Kendall-Hunt Publishing, Dubuque, IA, U.S.A.
20. Meyer J.L., Hax C., Wallace J.B., Eggert S.L. & Webster J.R. (2000) Terrestrial litter inputs as determinants of food quality of organic matter in a forest stream. Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie: Verhandlungen, 27, 1346-1350.
21. Pandian T.J. &Marian M.P. (1986) An indirect procedure for the estimation of assimilation efficiency of aquatic insects. Freshwater Biology, 16, 93-98.
22. Paul M.J. & Meyer J.L. (2001) Streams in the urban landscape. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 32, 333-365.
23. Polis G.A & Hurd S.D. (1995) Allochthonous input across habitats, subsidized consumers, and apparent trophic cascades: examples from an ocean-land surface. In: Food webs: Integration of Patterns and Dynamics (Eds G.A. Polis & K.O. Winemiller), pp. 275-285. Chapman & Hall, New York, NY, U.S.A.
24. Rao S.S., Dutka B.J. & Taylor C.M. (1993) Ecological implication of fluvial suspended particulates. In: Particulate Matter and Aquatic Contaminants (Ed. S.S. Rao), pp. 157-168. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, U.S.A.
25. Roditi H.A. & Fisher N.S. (1999) Rates and routes of trace element uptake in zebra mussels. Limnology and Oceanography, 44, 1730-1749.
26. Rose S., Crean M.S., Sheheen D.K. & Ghazi A.M. (2001) Comparative dynamics in Atlanta metropolitan region stream and street runoff. Environmental Geology, 40, 983-992.
27. Rosillon D. (1988) Food preference and relative influence of temperature and food quality on life history characteristics of a grazing mayfly, Ephemerella ignita (Poda). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 66, 1474-1481.
28. Rosi-Marshall E.J. (2002) Quality of suspended fine particulate matter in aquatic ecosystems and its role as a conduit of metals in riverine food webs. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, U.S.A.
29. Rosi-Marshall E.J. & Wallace J.B. (2002) Invertebrate food webs along a stream resource gradient. Freshwater Biology, 47, 129-141.
30. Schlekat C.E., Decho A.W. & Chandler G.T. (1999) Dietary assimilation of Cd associated with bacterial exopolymer sediment coatings by the estuarine amphipod Leptocheirus plimulosus: effects of Cd concentration and salinity. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 183, 205-216.
31. Science Advisory Board (2000) Review of the Biotic Ligand Model of the Acute Toxicity of Metals. USEPA Science Advisory Board, Washington, DC. EPA-SAB-EPEC-00-006.
32. Servais P. & Garnier J. (1993) Contribution of heterotrophic bacterial production to the carbon budget of the River Seine (France). Microbial Ecology, 25, 19-33.
33. US FWPCA §307 (1997) Toxic and Pretreatment Effluent Standards: Part 130.3-Water Quality Standards. US Code of Federal Regulations §1316.
34. Vos J.H., Ooijevaar M.A.G., Postma J.F. & Admiral W. (2000) Interaction between food availability and food quality during growth of early instar chironomid larvae. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 19, 158-168.
35. Waldbauer G.P. (1968) The consumption and utilization of food by insects. Advances in Insect Physiology, 5, 229-282.
36. Wallace J. B., Benke A.C., Lingle A.H. & Parsons K. (1987) Trophic pathways of macroinvertebrate primary consumers in sub-tropical blackwater stream. Archiv für Hydrobiologia Supplement, 74, 423-451.
37. Wallace J.B., Eggert S.L., Meyer J.L. & Webster J.R. (1997) Multiple trophic levels of a forest stream linked to terrestrial litter inputs. Science, 277, 102-104.
38. Wang W. & Fisher N.S. (1999). Assimilation efficiencies of chemical contaminants in aquatic invertebrates; a synthesis. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 18, 2034-2045.