Consumer vs environmental productivity control of bacterial diversity and bacteria-mediated organic matter decomposition

Oikos

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 441-450

  Jiang, Lin ^a   Adams Krumins, Jennifer ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BACTERIVORY; CILIATE; DECOMPOSITION; ORGANIC MATTER; PREDATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLPIDIUM; COLPIDIUM STRIATUM; PROTISTA;

EID: 33845657469     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.14961.x     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. Aarssen, L.W. 1997. High productivity in grassland ecosystems: effected by species diversity or productive species? - Oikos 80: 183-184.
2. Abrams, P. A. 1995. Monotonic or unimodal diversity-productivity gradients: what does competition theory predict? - Ecology 76: 2019-2027.
3. Bohannan, B. J. M. and Lenski, R. E. 2000. The relative importance of competition and predation varies with productivity in a model community. - Am. Nat. 156: 329-340.
4. Chase, J. M. and Leibold, M. A. 2002. Spatial scale dictates the productivity-biodiversity relationship. - Nature 416: 427-430.
5. Chase, J. M., Leibold, M. A., Downing, A. L. et al. 2000. The effects of productivity, herbivory, and plant species turnover in grassland food webs. - Ecology 81: 2485-2497.
6. Chase, J. M., Abrams, P. A., Grover, J. P. et al. 2002. The interaction between predation and competition: a review and synthesis. - Ecol. Lett. 5: 302-315.
7. Chesson, P. 2000. Mechanisms of maintenance of species diversity. - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 31: 343-366.
8. Cochran-Stafira, D. L. and von Ende, C. N. 1998. Integrating bacteria into food webs: studies with Sarracenia purpurea inquilines. - Ecology 79: 880-898.
9. Connell, J. H. and Orias, E. 1964. The ecological regulation of species diversity. - Am. Nat. 98: 399-414.
10. Crawley, M. J., Johnston, A. E., Silvertown, J. et al. 2005. Determinants of species richness in the park grass experiment. - Am. Nat. 165: 179-192.
11. Duffy, J. E. 2002. Biodiversity and ecosystem function: the consumer connection. - Oikos 99: 201-219.
12. Duffy, J. E., Richardson, J. P. and Canuel, E. A. 2003. Grazer diversity effects on ecosystem functioning in seagrass beds. - Ecol. Lett. 6: 637-645.
13. Duffy, J. E., Richardson, J. P. and France, K. E. 2005. Ecosystem consequences of diversity depend on food chain length in estuarine vegetation. - Ecol. Lett. 8: 301-309.
14. Elton, C. S. 1958. The ecology of invasions by animals and plants. - Methuen.
15. Fenchel, T. and Harrison, P. 1976. The significance of bacterial grazing and mineral cycling for the decomposition of particulate detritus. - In: Anderson, J. M. and MacFadyen, A. (eds), The role of terrestrial and aquatic organisms in the decomposition processes. Blackwell, pp. 285-289.
16. Fukami, T. and Morin, P. J. 2003. Productivity-biodiversity relationships depend on the history of community assembly. - Nature 424: 423-426.
17. Gamfeldt, L., Hillebrand, H. and Jonsson, P. R. 2005. Species richness changes across two trophic levels simultaneously affect prey and consumer biomass. - Ecol. Lett. 8: 696-703.
18. Gough, L., Osenberg, C. W., Gross, K. L. et al. 2000. Fertilization effects on species density and primary productivity in herbaceous plant communities. - Oikos 89: 428-439.
19. Holt, R. D., Grover, J. and Tilman, D. 1994. Simple rules for interspecific dominance in systems with exploitative and apparent competition. - Am. Nat. 144: 741-771.
20. Hooper, D. U., Chapin, F. S., Ewel, J. J. et al. 2005. Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge. - Ecol. Monogr. 75: 3-35.
21. Huston, M. A. 1994. Biological diversity: the coexistence of species on changing landscapes. - Cambridge Univ. Press.
22. Huston, M. A. 1997. Hidden treatments in ecological experiments: re-evaluating the ecosystem function of biodiversity. - Oecologia 110: 449-460.
23. Hutchinson, G. E. 1959. Homage to Santa Rosalia, or why are there so many kinds of animals? - Am. Nat. 93: 145-159.
24. Jiang, L. and Morin, P. J. 2005. Predator diet breadth influences the relative importance of bottom-up and top-down control of prey biomass and diversity. - Am. Nat. 165: 350-363.
25. Jurgens, K. and Matz, C. 2002. Predation as a shaping force for the phenotypic and genotypic composition of planktonic bacteria. - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 81: 413-434.
26. Kassen, R., Buckling, A., Bell, G. et al. 2000. Diversity peaks at intermediate productivity in a laboratory microcosm. - Nature 406: 508-512.
27. Kaunzinger, C. M. K. and Morin, P. J. 1998. Productivity controls food-chain properties in microbial communities. - Nature 395: 495-497.
28. Kinzig, A. P., Pacala, S. W. and Tilman, D. (eds) 2002. The functional consequences of biodiversity: empirical progress and theoretical extensions. - Princeton Univ. Press.
29. Kondoh, M. 2001. Unifying the relationships of species richness to productivity and disturbance. - Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 268: 269-271.
30. Leibold, M. A. 1996. A graphical model of keystone predators in food webs: trophic regulation of abundance, incidence, and diversity patterns in communities. - Am. Nat. 147: 784-812.
31. Leibold, M. A. 1999. Biodiversity and nutrient enrichment in pond plankton communities. - Evol. Ecol. Res. 1: 73-95.
32. Leibold, M. A., Chase, J. M., Shurin, J. B. et al. 1997. Species turnover and the regulation of trophic structure. - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 28: 467-494.
33. Loreau, M., Naeem, S. and Inchausti, P. (eds) 2002. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: synthesis and perspectives. - Oxford Univ. Press.
34. Lubchenco, J. 1978. Plant species diversity in a marine intertidal community: importance of herbivore food preferences and algal competitive abilities. - Am Nat. 112: 23-39.
35. Martinez, J., Smith, D. C., Steward, G. F. et al. 1996. Variability in ectohydrolytic enzyme activities of pelagic marine bacteria and its significance for substrate processing in the sea. - Aquat. Microbial Ecol. 10: 223-230.
36. Mittelbach, G. G., Steiner, C. F., Scheiner, S. M. et al. 2001. What is the observed relationship between species richness and productivity? - Ecology 82: 2381-2396.
37. Mulder, C. P. H., Koricheva, J., Huss-Danell, K. et al. 1999. Insects affect relationships between plant species richness and ecosystem processes. - Ecol. Lett. 2: 237-246.
38. Naeem, S., Hahn, D. R. and Schuurman, G. 2000. Producer-decomposer co-dependency influences biodiversity effects. - Nature 403: 762-764.
39. Olff, H. and Ritchie, M. E. 1998. Effects of herbivores on grassland plant diversity. - Trends Ecol. Evol. 13: 261-265.
40. Paine, R. T. 1966. Food web complexity and species diversity. - Am. Nat. 100: 65-75.
41. Paine, R. T. 2002. Trophic control of production in a rocky intertidal community. - Science 296.
42. Pimm, S. L. 1982. Food webs. - Chapman and Hall.
43. Pinhassi, J., Zweifel, U. L. and Hagstrom, A. 1997. Dominant marine bacterioplancton species found among colony-forming bacteria. - Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63: 3359-3366.
44. Pinhassi, J., Azam, F. and Hemphala, J. et al. 1999 Coupling between bacterioplancton species composition, population dynamics and organic matter degradation. - Aquat Microbial Ecol. 17: 13-26.
45. Polis, G. A. and Winemiller, K. O. 1996. Food webs: contemporary perspectives. - Chapman and Hall.
46. Power, M. E., Tilman, D., Estes, J. A. et al. 1996. Challenges in the quest for keystones. - Bioscience 46: 609-620.
47. Preston, F. W. 1962. The canonical distribution of commonness and rarity: part I. - Ecology 43: 185-215.
48. Proulx, M. and Mazumder, A. 1998. Reversal of grazing impact on plant species richness in nutrient-poor vs nutrient-rich ecosystems. - Ecology 79: 2581-2592.
49. Rajaniemi, T. K. 2003. Explaining productivity-diversity relationships in plants. - Oikos 101: 449-457.
50. Ratsak, C. H., Maarsen, K. A. and Kooijman, S. 1996. Effects of protozoa on carbon mineralization in activated sludge. - Water Res. 30: 1 -12.
51. Ribblett, S. G., Palmer, M. A. and Coats, D. W. 2005. The importance of bacterivorous protists in the decomposition of stream leaf litter. - Freshwater Biol. 50: 516-526.
52. Rosenzweig, M. L. and Abramsky, Z. 1993. How are diversity and productivity related? - In: Ricklefs, R. E. and Schluter, D. (eds), Species diversity in ecological commmunties: historical and geographical perspectives. Univ. of Chicago Press, pp. 52-65.
53. Scholes, L., Warren, P. H. and Beckerman, A. P. 2005. The combined effects of energy and disturbance on species richness in protist microcosms. - Ecol. Lett. 8: 730-738.
54. Sherr, B. F., Sherr, E. B. and Berman, T. 1982. Decomposition of organic detritus: a selective role of microflagellate protozoa. - Limnol. Oceanogr. 27: 765-769.
55. Sih, A., Crowley, P., McPeek, M., Petranka, J. et al. 1985. Predation, competition, and prey communities: a review of field experiments. - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 16: 269-311.
56. Spiller, D. A. and Schoener, T. W. 1998. Lizards reduce spider species richness by excluding rare species. - Ecology 79: 503-516.
57. Srivastava, D. S. and Lawton, J. H. 1998. Why more productive sites have more species: an experimental test of theory using tree-hole communities. - Am. Nat. 152: 510-529.
58. Steiner, C. F. and Leibold, M. A. 2004. Cyclic assembly trajectories and scale-dependent productivity-diversity relationships. - Ecology 85: 107-113.
59. Stevens, C. J., Dise, N. B., Mountford, J. O. et al. 2004. Impact of nitrogen deposition on the species richness of grasslands. - Science 303: 1876-1879.
60. Suding, K. N., Collins, S. L., Gough, L. et al. 2005. Functional- and abundance-based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to N fertilization. - Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 102: 4387-4392.
61. Thebault, E. and Loreau, M. 2003. Food-web constraints on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships. - Proc. Natl Acad. Sci USA 100: 14949-14954.
62. Tilman, D. 1982. Resource competition and community structure. - Princeton Univ. Press.
63. Tilman, D. and Pacala, S. 1993. The maintenance of species richness in plant communities. - In: Ricklefs, R. E. and Schluter, D. (eds), Species diversity in ecological communities: historical and geographical perspectives. Univ. of Chicago Press.
64. Tilman, D., Lehman, C. L. and Thomson, K. T. 1997. Plant diversity and ecosystem productivity: theoretical considerations. - Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 94: 1857-1861.
65. Torsvik, V., Goksoyr, J. and Daae, F. L. 1990. High diversity in DNA of soil bacteria. - Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 56: 782-787.
66. Waide, R. B., Willig, M. R., Steiner, C. F. et al. 1999. The relationship between productivity and species richness. - Annu. Rev. Ecol Syst. 30: 257-300.
67. Wetzel, R. G. and Likens, G. E. 1991. Limnological analyses. - Springer-Verlag.
68. Worm, B. and Duffy, J. E. 2003. Biodiversity, productivity and stability in real food webs. - Trends Ecol. Evol. 18: 628-632.
69. Worm, B., Lotze, H. K., Hillebrand, H. et al. 2002. Consumer versus resource control of species diversity and ecosystem functioning. - Nature 417: 848-851.
70. Wright, D. H. 1983. Species-energy theory: an extension of species-area theory. - Oikos 41: 496-506.