Periphyton as alternative food source for the filter-feeding cladoceran Daphnia magna

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-23

  Siehoff, Silvana ^a   Hammers Wirtz, Monika ^a   Strauss, Tido ^a   Ratte, Hans Toni ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benthic habitats; Coupling pelagic; Diet switching

Indexed keywords

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DAPHNIIDAE; DESMODESMUS SUBSPICATUS;

EID: 57449097584     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02087.x     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Bohrer R.N. Lampert W. (1988) Simultaneous measurement of the effect of food concentration on assimilation and respiration in Daphnia magna Straus. Functional Ecology, 2, 463 471.
2. Brendelberger H. Jürgens S. (1993) Suspension feeding in Bithynia tentaculata (Prosobranchia, Bithyniidae), as affected by body size, food and temperature. Oecologia, 94, 36 42.
3. Burks R.L., Lodge D.M., Jeppesen E. Lauridsen T.L. (2002) Diel horizontal migration of zooplankton: costs and benefits of inhabiting the littoral. Freshwater Biology, 47, 343 365.
4. DIN (1992) Bestimmung des gelösten Sauerstoffs - Iodometrisches Verfahren. DIN EN 25813 Deutsches Institut für Normung, Beuth, Berlin.
5. Elendt B.P. (1990) Selenium deficiency in crustacea - an ultrastructural approach to antennal damage in Daphnia magna Straus. Protoplasma, 154, 25 33.
6. Flössner D. (2000) Die Haplopoda und Cladocera (ohne Bosminidae) Mitteleuropas. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.
7. Fryer G. (1968) Evolution and adaptive radiation in the Chydoridae (Crustacea: Cladocera): a study in comparative functional morphology and ecology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 254, 221 385.
8. Geller W. Müller H. (1981) The filtration apparatus of Cladocera: filter mesh-sizes and their implications on food selectivity. Oecologia, 49, 316 321.
9. Hadas O., Cavari B.Z., Kott Y. Bachrach U. (1982) Preferential feeding behavior of Daphnia magna. Hydrobiologia, 89, 49 52.
10. Hammers-Wirtz M. Ratte H.T. (2000) Offspring fitness in Daphnia: Is the Daphnia reproduction test appropriate for extrapolating effects on the population level?, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 19, 1856 1866.
11. Horton P.A., Rowan M., Webster K.E. Peters R.H. (1979) Browsing and grazing by cladoceran filter feeders. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 57, 206 212.
12. Jones J.I. Waldron S. (2003) Combined stable isotope and gut contents analysis of food webs in plant-dominated, shallow lakes. Freshwater Biology, 48, 1396 1407.
13. Jüttner F. Wu J.T. (2000) Evidence of allelochemical activity in subtropical cyanobacterial biofilms of Taiwan. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 147, 505 517.
14. Kuhl A. (1962) Zur Physiologie der Speicherung kondensierter anorganischer Phosphate in Chlorella. In : Beiträge zur Physiologie und Morphologie der Algen (Ed. Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft) pp. 157 166. Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart.
15. Lampert W. (1986) Response of the respiratory rate of Daphnia magna to changing food conditions. Oecologia, 70, 495 501.
16. Leibold M.A. Wilbur H.M. (1992) Interactions between food-web structure and nutrients on pond organisms. Nature, 360, 341 343.
17. McCormick P.V. Stevenson R.J. (1991) Grazer control of nutrient availability in the periphyton. Oecologia, 86, 287 291.
18. OECD (1998) Daphnia magna Reproduction Test, No. 211. OECD Guidelines for testing of chemicals, Paris.
19. Persson L. (1991) Interspecific interactions. In : Cyprinid Fishes. Systematics, Biology and Exploitation (Eds J. Winfield S. Nelson pp. 530 551. Chapman and Hall, London.
20. Porter K.G., Orcutt J.D. Gerritsen J. (1983) Functional response and fitness in a generalist filter feeder, Daphnia magna (Cladocera, Crustacea). Ecology, 64, 735 742.
21. Rautio M. Vincent W.F. (2006) Benthic and pelagic food resources for zooplankton in shallow high-latitude lakes and ponds. Freshwater Biology, 51, 1038 1052.
22. Schindler D.E. Scheuerell M.D. (2002) Habitat coupling in lake ecosystems. Oikos, 98, 177 189.
23. Steinman A.D. (1992) Does an increase in irradiance influence periphyton in a heavily-grazed woodland stream. Oecologia, 91, 163 170.
24. Strickland J.D.H. (1960) Measuring the production of marine phytoplankton. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 122, 1 172.
25. Utermöhl H. (1958) Zur Vervollkommnung der quantitativen Phytoplankton-Methodik. Mitteilungen der Internationalen Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, 9, 1 38.
26. Vadeboncoeur Y., Jeppesen E., Vander Zanden M.J., Schierup H.H., Christoffersen K. Lodge D.M. (2003) From Greenland to green lakes: cultural eutrophication and the loss of benthic pathways in lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 48, 1408 1418.
27. Weimer-Henss I. (1995) Bioakkumulation und Verhalten von 3,4-Dichloranilin in einem aquatischen Laborsystem. PhD Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen.
28. Wetzel R.G. (1983) Opening remarks. In : Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Periphyton of Freshwater Ecosystems. Developments in Hydrobiology, Vol. 17 (Ed. R.G. Wetzel pp. 3 4. Junk-Publishers, The Hague.
29. Zimmer K.D., Herwig B.R. Laurich L.M. (2006) Nutrient excretion by fish in wetland ecosystems and its potential to support algal production. Limnology and Oceanography, 51, 197 207.