Galled leaves as an improved resource for benthic detritivores

M Tagliaferro, V Diaz Villanueva, L Wolinski, CC Boy - Aquatic Sciences, 2021 - Springer
detritivores would change their body stoichiometry depending on food and functional
feeding group; we expected a stronger response from the shredder than from the collector-gatherer…

Meta-analysis reveals that vertebrates enhance plant litter decomposition at the global scale

B Tuo, P García-Palacios, C Guo, ER Yan… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
trophic interactions 44,45 , but the direction of such influence is usually dependent on which
trophic level(s) … on plant decomposition have been disregarded. For example, woodpeckers …

[PDF][PDF] Top-down and bottom-up control of litter decomposers in streams

C CANHOTO - academia.edu
Detritivores preferentially consume certain aquatic … (ie within trophic levels) and vertical
(ie between trophic levels) … vidual fungal species (eg composition, stoichiometry). It has been …

Differential use of trophic resources between an exotic and a coexisting native snail

P Altieri, LE Paz, AC Ferreira, KD Colpo… - Limnology, 2022 - Springer
… quadrata as detritivore in its native range. Ovando and … to other resources cannot be neglected.
Miranda and Perissinotto (… quadrata and other detritivore native species coexisting in its …

Stoichiometric ecotoxicology for a multisubstance world

A Peace, PC Frost, ND Wagner, M Danger… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
trophic level, because we envision it being applied to toxicological research on all organisms
including producers, consumers, detritivores… they may neglect to incorporate stoichiometric

Can shifts in metabolic scaling predict coevolution between diet quality and body size?

PACL Pequeno, MB Graça, JR Oliveira, J Šobotník… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… issue using termites, major tropical detritivores that feed along a … Dashed lines represent
limits between trophic levels, … species is shaped by a neglected interaction between body mass …

Nutrient recycling by insect and fish communities in high-elevation tropical streams

CL Atkinson, AV Alexiades, KL MacNeill, AC Encalada… - Hydrobiologia, 2019 - Springer
High- to mid-elevation streams are often oligotrophic, but harbor diverse groups of aquatic
animals that can satisfy a substantial proportion of nutrient demand. Therefore, we tested the …

Environmental context determines pollution impacts on ecosystem functioning

FJ Burdon, M Reyes, U Schönenberger, K Räsänen… - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… Global change assessments have typically ignored synthetic … WWTPs affect two trophic levels
(microbes and detritivores) and … , combined with alder leaf stoichiometry help explain weak …

Combined carbon flows through detritus, microbes, and animals in reference and experimentally enriched stream ecosystems

JP Benstead, WF Cross, V Gulis, AD Rosemond - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… Net primary production is <2% of C inputs under ambient nutrient concentrations, so is
ignored here. We only report net DOC export. Storage of OM (leaf litter, nonleaf particulate OM, …

[HTML][HTML] Warming overrides eutrophication effects on leaf litter decomposition in stream microcosms

J Pérez, A Cornejo, A Alonso, A Guerra, G García… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
… , and detritivore stoichiometry was affected by the addition of both nutrients separately or
together. In only a few cases (variables related to detritivore … should not be neglected and might …