- Title
- Cross boundary fluxes: Basal resource use by aquatic invertebrates matches fatty acid transfers from river to land
- Creator
- Moyo, Sydney
- Creator
- Richoux, Nicole B
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2022
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454304
- Identifier
- vital:75334
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2022.126035"
- Description
- Emerging insects transfer valuable lipids originating in aquatic food sources to terrestrial consumers. The objective of this study was to determine how the export of physiologically important fatty acids from a river to adjacent land via insect emergence relates to the type and quality of the aquatic food consumed, and which emerging insects were primarily responsible for these fluxes. We ran mixing models and hypervolumes incorporating stable carbon isotope ratios of basal resources and emergent invertebrates to determine the major contributors to insect larvae diets. Our data revealed that aquatic food sources (epiphyton, epilithon and suspended particulate matter) were the major organic matter sources (more than 50 %) supporting consumers (Diptera, Ephemeroptera, Odonata and Trichoptera), with allochthonous food sources (C3 plants) being of importance at upstream sites. We calculated fluxes of highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFAs) via emerging insects and found that these corresponded with the spatial and temporal patterns in the nutritional quality of these same basal resources in the river (quality measured as concentrations of HUFAs). These patterns provide evidence of a direct coupling between food quality and trophic subsidy fluxes from water to land, particularly by emergent dipterans and ephemeropterans.
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- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (12 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Limnologica
- Relation
- Moyo, S. and Richoux, N.B., 2022. Cross boundary fluxes: Basal resource use by aquatic invertebrates matches fatty acid transfers from river to land. Limnologica, 97, p.126035
- Relation
- Limnologica volume 37 p. 126035 2022 0075-9511
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Richoux, Nicole Bertine (Assoc Prof)
RU Department of Zoology and Entomology
SDG 15. Life On Land
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