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Título: | A conceptual model of litter breakdown in low order streams | Autor: | Graça, Manuel A. S. Ferreira, Verónica Canhoto, Cristina Encalada, Andrea C. Guerrero-Bolaño, Francisco Wantzen, Karl M. Boyero, Luz |
Palavras-chave: | Decomposition; Organic matter; Processing; Streams; Shredders; Aquatic hyphomycetes | Data: | 2015 | Título da revista, periódico, livro ou evento: | International Review of Hydrobiology | Volume: | 100 | Número: | 1 | Resumo: | The detrital-based food web of many streams and rivers plays a fundamental role in the cycling and retention of carbon and nutrients. However, we still need to understand which global mechanisms underlie the biogeochemical pathways that control energy transfer from the detrital pool through local food webs into nutrient and energy cycles and storage. Previous attempts to understandthe variability in litter breakdown rateshave includedthe searchforlatitudinal variation patterns and analysis of the influence of different factors. Here we complement those studies by developing a conceptual model to predict litter breakdown dynamics in low order streams. According to the model, litter breakdown rates and the relative role of microbial decomposers and shredder detritivores on this process are hierarchically governed by interactions between climate/ hydrology and geology acting upon plant traits, nutrient and leaf availability to decomposers, and metabolism of microbial decomposers and shredders. The model explains variations in leaf litter breakdown rates and shredder abundance across large geographic areas, allowing the formulation of predictions of how anthropogenic pressures may affect litter breakdown rates. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/98689 | DOI: | 10.1002/iroh.201401757 | Direitos: | openAccess |
Aparece nas coleções: | FCTUC Ciências da Vida - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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