Eva Cereghetti, Raphaël Bossart, Andreas Bruder, Andrin Krähenbühl, Franziska Wolf, Florian Altermatt
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The year of a leaf: Tracking the fate of leaf litter and its nutrients during aquatic decomposition and consumption
Temperate streams are subsidized by inputs of leaf litter peaking in fall. Yet, stream communities decompose dead leaves and integrate their energy into the aquatic food web throughout the whole year. Most studies investigating stream decomposition largely overlook long‐term trajectories, which must be understood for an appropriate temporal upscaling of ecosystem processes. Using mesocosms, we quantified changes in carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus content of three leaf species during decomposition at weekly to multi‐month intervals for up to a year; then, we tested how decomposition duration affected the subsequent consumption by a keystone amphipod macroinvertebrate. Over a year, nitrogen and phosphorus percentage increased across all leaf species, but only the recalcitrant species maintained initial levels of absolute nitrogen and phosphorus. Prolonged decomposition barely affected or impaired amphipod consumption of labile leaf species, whereas it enhanced feeding on the recalcitrant species. Overall, we demonstrate that recalcitrant leaves might serve as longer stored potential resources for when labile species have already been consumed and that their increasing palatability observed over multi‐month intervals of sustained decomposition may stabilize fluctuations in the rates of leaf litter integration into aquatic food webs. This yearlong perspective highlights the relevancy of slow‐decomposing leaves for aquatic detrital communities.
期刊介绍:
Ecology publishes articles that report on the basic elements of ecological research. Emphasis is placed on concise, clear articles documenting important ecological phenomena. The journal publishes a broad array of research that includes a rapidly expanding envelope of subject matter, techniques, approaches, and concepts: paleoecology through present-day phenomena; evolutionary, population, physiological, community, and ecosystem ecology, as well as biogeochemistry; inclusive of descriptive, comparative, experimental, mathematical, statistical, and interdisciplinary approaches.