Measuring Changes in Consumer Resource Availability to Riverine Pulsing in Breton Sound, Louisiana, USA

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 7; no. 5; p. e37536
• Main Authors: Piazza, Bryan P., La Peyre, Megan K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 30.05.2012; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Animals; Aquatic Organisms - metabolism; Availability; Bayous; Biology; Biomass; Biomass energy production; Climate change; Consumers; Density; Discharge; Earth Sciences; Ecosystems; Energy; Energy Metabolism; Estuaries; Exploitation; Fish; Fishes; Flood predictions; Floods; Flux density; Food Chain; Food chains; Food webs; Habitats; Hydrology; Inflow; Laboratory animals; Louisiana; Measurement; Natural resources; Nekton; Predatory Behavior; Residential density; Resource availability; River discharge; River flow; Rivers; Salinity; Salmo salar; Salmo trutta; Salmonidae; Subsidies; Water discharge; Water inflow; Water levels; Louisiana; Baton Rouge Louisiana; Breton Sound; United States > US

Resource pulses are thought to structure communities and food webs through the assembly of consumers. Aggregated consumers represent a high quality resource subsidy that becomes available for trophic transfer during and after the pulse. In estuarine systems, riverine flood pulses deliver large quant...