Omnivory and grazer functional composition moderate cascading trophic effects in experimental Fucus vesiculosus habitats

Marine Biology

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 747-756

  Eriksson, Britas Klemens ^a   van Sluis, Christiaan ^a   Sieben, Katrin ^a   Kautsky, Lena ^b   Råberg, Sonja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; BIOMASS; CRUSTACEAN; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MESOCOSM; OMNIVORY; PREDATION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEAWEED; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

AMPHIPODA; CHLOROPHYTA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FUCUS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; GASTROPODA;

EID: 79952986373     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-010-1602-6     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Altieri AH, Trussell GC, Ewanchuk PJ, Bernatchez G, Bracken MES (2009) Consumers control diversity and functioning of a natural marine ecosystem. Plos One 4: 1-6.
2. Arenas F, Rey F, Pinto IS (2009) Diversity effects beyond species richness: evidence from intertidal macroalgal assemblages. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 381: 99-108.
3. Bruno JF, O'Connor MI (2005) Cascading effects of predator diversity and omnivory in a marine food web. Ecol Lett 8: 1048-1056.
4. Casini M, Lovgren J, Hjelm J, Cardinale M, Molinero JC, Kornilovs G (2008) Multi-level trophic cascades in a heavily exploited open marine ecosystem. Proc R Soc B Biol Sci 275: 1793-1801.
5. Daskalov GM, Grishin AN, Rodionov S, Mihneva V (2007) Trophic cascades triggered by overfishing reveal possible mechanisms of ecosystem regime shifts. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104: 10518-10523.
6. Diehl S (1993) Relative consumer sizes and the strengths of direct and indirect interactions in omnivorous feeding relationships. Oikos 68: 151-157.
7. Duffy JE, Hay ME (2000) Strong impacts of grazing amphipods on the organization of a benthic community. Ecol Monogr 70: 237-263.
8. Duffy JE, Richardson JP, Canuel EA (2003) Grazer diversity effects on ecosystem functioning in seagrass beds. Ecol Lett 6: 637-645.
9. Duffy JE, Cardinale BJ, France KE, McIntyre PB, Thebault E, Loreau M (2007) The functional role of biodiversity in ecosystems: incorporating trophic complexity. Ecol Lett 10: 522-538.
10. Dunne JA, Williams RJ, Martinez ND (2002) Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance. Ecol Lett 5: 558-567.
11. Eriksson BK, Rubach A, Hillebrand H (2006) Biotic habitat complexity controls species diversity and nutrient effects on net biomass production. Ecology 87: 246-254.
12. Eriksson BK, Ljunggren L, Sandström A, Johansson G, Mattila J, Rubach A, Råberg S, Snickars M (2009) Declines in predatory fish promote bloom-forming macroalgae. Ecol Appl 19: 1975-1988.
13. Eubanks MD, Denno RF (1999) The ecological consequences of variation in plants and prey for an omnivorous insect. Ecology 80: 1253-1266.
14. Fagan WF (1997) Omnivory as a stabilizing feature of natural communities. Am Nat 150: 554-567.
15. Frank KT, Petrie B, Choi JS, Leggett WC (2005) Trophic cascades in a formerly cod-dominated ecosystem. Science 308: 1621-1623.
16. Gruner DS, Smith JE, Seabloom EW, Sandin SA, Ngai JT, Hillebrand H, Harpole WS, Elser JJ, Cleland EE, Bracken MES, Borer ET, Bolker BM (2008) A cross-system synthesis of consumer and nutrient resource control on producer biomass. Ecol Lett 11: 740-755.
17. Heithaus MR, Frid A, Wirsing AJ, Worm B (2008) Predicting ecological consequences of marine top predator declines. Trends Ecol Evol 23: 202-210.
18. Hemmi A, Honkanen T, Jormalainen V (2004) Inducible resistance to herbivory in Fucus vesiculosus-duration, spreading and variation with nutrient availability. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 273: 109-120.
19. Hillebrand H (2003) Opposing effects of grazing and nutrients on diversity. Oikos 100: 592-600.
20. Hillebrand H, Gruner DS, Borer ET, Bracken MES, Cleland EE, Elser JJ, Harpole WS, Ngai JT, Seabloom EW, Shurin JB, Smith JE (2007) Consumer versus resource control of producer diversity depends on ecosystem type and producer community structure. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104: 10904-10909.
21. Hillebrand H, Bennett DM, Cadotte MW (2008) Consequences of dominance: a review of evenness effects on local and regional ecosystem processes. Ecology 89: 1510-1520.
22. Ho CK, Pennings SC (2008) Consequences of omnivory for trophic interactions on a salt marsh shrub. Ecology 89: 1714-1722.
23. Jephson T, Nystrom P, Moksnes PO, Baden SP (2008) Trophic interactions in Zostera marina beds along the Swedish coast. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 369: 63-76.
24. Kinne O (1960) Gammarus Salinus-Einige Daten Über Den Umwelt-Einfluss Auf Wachstum, Häutungsfolge, Herzfrequenz Und Eientwicklungsdauer. Crustaceana 1: 208-217.
25. Kirkegaard J (2006) Life history, growth and production of Theodoxus fluviatilis in Lake Esrom, Denmark. Limnologica 36: 26-41.
26. Loreau M, Hector A (2001) Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments. Nature 412: 72-76.
27. Lotze HK, Worm B, Sommer U (2001) Strong bottom-up and top-down control of early life stages of macroalgae. Limnol Oceanogr 46: 749-757.
28. Matthiessen B, Gamfeldt L, Jonsson PR, Hillebrand H (2007) Effects of grazer richness and composition on algal biomass in a closed and open marine system. Ecology 88: 178-187.
29. McCann K, Hastings A, Huxel GR (1998) Weak trophic interactions and the balance of nature. Nature 395: 794-798.
30. Moksnes P-O, Gullstrom M, Tryman K, Baden S (2008) Trophic cascades in a temperate seagrass community. Oikos 117: 763-777.
31. Myers RA, Baum JK, Shepherd TD, Powers SP, Peterson CH (2007) Cascading effects of the loss of apex predatory sharks from a coastal ocean. Science 315: 1846-1850.
32. Neutel AM, Heesterbeek JAP, de Ruiter PC (2002) Stability in real food webs: weak links in long loops. Science 296: 1120-1123.
33. Orav-Kotta H, Kotta J (2004) Food and habitat choice of the isopod Idotea baltica in the northeastern Baltic Sea. Hydrobiologia 514: 79-85.
34. Persson M, Andersson S, Baden S, Moksnes PO (2008) Trophic role of the omnivorous grass shrimp Palaemon elegans in a Swedish eelgrass system. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 371: 203-212.
35. Polis GA (1999) Why are parts of the world green? Multiple factors control productivity and the distribution of biomass. Oikos 86: 3-15.
36. Polis GA, Holt RD (1992) Intraguild predation-the dynamics of complex trophic interactions. Trends Ecol Evol 7: 151-154.
37. Polis GA, Strong DR (1996) Food web complexity and community dynamics. Am Nat 147: 813-846.
38. Råberg S, Kautsky L (2007a) A comparative biodiversity study of the associated fauna of perennial fucoids and filamentous algae. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 73: 249-258.
39. Råberg S, Kautsky L (2007b) Consumers affect prey biomass and diversity through resource partitioning. Ecology 88: 2468-2473.
40. Råberg S, Kautsky L (2008) Grazer identity is crucial for facilitating growth of the perennial brown alga Fucus vesiculosus. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 361: 111-118.
41. Råberg S, Berger-Jonsson R, Björn A, Graneli E, Kautsky L (2005) Effects of Pilayella littoralis on Fucus vesiculosus recruitment: implications for community composition. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 289: 131-139.
42. Ritchie EG, Johnson CN (2009) Predator interactions, mesopredator release and biodiversity conservation. Ecol Lett 12: 982-998.
43. Scheffer M, Carpenter S, de Young B (2005) Cascading effects of overfishing marine systems. Trends Ecol Evol 20: 579-581.
44. Sieben K, Rippen AD, Eriksson BK (2011) Cascading effects from predator removal depend on resource availability in a benthic food web. Mar Biol 158. doi: 10. 1007/s00227-010-1567-5.
45. Symstad AJ, Tilman D, Willson J, Knops JMH (1998) Species loss and ecosystem functioning: effects of species identity and community composition. Oikos 81: 389-397.
46. Vasas V, Lancelot C, Rousseau V, Jordán F (2007) Eutrophication and overfishing in temperate nearshore pelagic food webs: a network perspective. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 336: 1-14.
47. Worm B, Myers RA (2003) Meta-analysis of cod-shrimp interactions reveals top-down control in oceanic food webs. Ecology 84: 162-173.