The outcome of an exclusion experiment depends on the method shrimps, shredders and leaf breakdown in a tropical stream

• Published in: Freshwater science Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 131 - 141
• Main Authors: Moulton, Timothy P., Andrade, Claudia M., Neres-Lima, Vinicius
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lawrence University of Chicago Press 01.03.2019; The University of Chicago Press
• Subjects: Aquatic insects; Breakdown; Coastal processes; Dynamics; Electricity; Erythroxylum; Fauna; Food chains; Food webs; Invertebrates; Leaves; Masking; Office equipment; Potimirim; Predators; Rivers; Shredding; Shrimps; Tropical climate; Potimirim; detrital food web; experimental artefacts; leaf processing; bag effect; electrical exclusion; Leptophlebiidae

The study of detrital food webs of streams has revealed a variety of dynamics, often implying the importance of invertebrate fauna in the breakdown of leaves and sometimes showing effects of predators and trophic cascades. Such studies generally involve the experimental manipulation of the component...