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  1. Article: Trophic transfer of polyunsaturated fatty acids across the aquatic-terrestrial interface: An experimental tritrophic food chain approach.

    Ohler, Katharina / Schreiner, Verena C / Martin-Creuzburg, Dominik / Schäfer, Ralf B

    Ecology and evolution

    2023  Volume 13, Issue 3, Page(s) e9927

    Abstract: Aquatic and their adjacent terrestrial ecosystems are linked via the flux of organic and inorganic matter. Emergent aquatic insects are recognized as high-quality food for terrestrial predators, because they provide more physiologically relevant long- ... ...

    Abstract Aquatic and their adjacent terrestrial ecosystems are linked via the flux of organic and inorganic matter. Emergent aquatic insects are recognized as high-quality food for terrestrial predators, because they provide more physiologically relevant long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) than terrestrial insects. The effects of dietary PUFA on terrestrial predators have been explored mainly in feeding trials conducted under controlled laboratory conditions, hampering the assessment of the ecological relevance of dietary PUFA deficiencies under field conditions. We assessed the PUFA transfer across the aquatic-terrestrial interface and the consequences for terrestrial riparian predators in two outdoor microcosm experiments. We established simplified tritrophic food chains, consisting of one of four basic food sources, an intermediary collector gatherer (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-24
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2635675-2
    ISSN 2045-7758
    ISSN 2045-7758
    DOI 10.1002/ece3.9927
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  2. Article ; Online: Land use changes biomass and temporal patterns of insect cross‐ecosystem flows

    Ohler, Katharina / Schreiner, Verena C. / Link, Moritz / Liess, Matthias / Schäfer, Ralf B.

    Global Change Biology. 2023 Jan., v. 29, no. 1 p.81-96

    2023  

    Abstract: Emergent aquatic insects constitute an important food source for higher trophic levels, linking aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems. Little is known about how land use affects the biomass or composition of insect emergence. Previous studies are limited to ... ...

    Abstract Emergent aquatic insects constitute an important food source for higher trophic levels, linking aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems. Little is known about how land use affects the biomass or composition of insect emergence. Previous studies are limited to individual time points or seasons, hampering understanding of annual biomass export patterns and detection of phenological changes. Over 1 year's primary emergence period, we continuously determined the biomass, abundance, and identity of >45,000 aquatic insects and recorded land‐use‐related environmental variables in 20 stream sites using a paired design with upstream forested sites and downstream agricultural sites. Total insect biomass and abundance were 2–7 mg day⁻¹ m⁻² and 7–36 ind day⁻¹ m⁻² higher in agricultural than forested sites. However, we found turnover of families between forested and agricultural sites, with more insects with shorter generation time in agriculture, indicating lower sensitivity to land‐use‐related stress because of higher recovery potential. Except for stoneflies, biomass and abundance of major orders were higher in agriculture, but their phenology differed. For different orders, emergence peaked 30 days earlier to 51 days later in agriculture than forest, whereas total abundance and biomass both peaked earlier in agriculture: 3–5 and 3–19 days, respectively. The most important land‐use‐related drivers were pesticide toxicity and electrical conductivity, which were differentially associated with different aquatic insect order abundances and biomass. Overall, we found that land use was related to changes in composition and phenology of aquatic insect emergence, which is likely to affect food‐web dynamics in a cross‐ecosystem context.
    Keywords Plecoptera ; aquatic insects ; biomass ; electrical conductivity ; exports ; food webs ; forests ; global change ; land use ; pesticides ; phenology ; streams ; toxicity
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2023-01
    Size p. 81-96.
    Publishing place John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
    Document type Article ; Online
    Note JOURNAL ARTICLE
    ZDB-ID 1281439-8
    ISSN 1365-2486 ; 1354-1013
    ISSN (online) 1365-2486
    ISSN 1354-1013
    DOI 10.1111/gcb.16462
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  3. Article ; Online: Land use changes biomass and temporal patterns of insect cross-ecosystem flows.

    Ohler, Katharina / Schreiner, Verena C / Link, Moritz / Liess, Matthias / Schäfer, Ralf B

    Global change biology

    2022  Volume 29, Issue 1, Page(s) 81–96

    Abstract: Emergent aquatic insects constitute an important food source for higher trophic levels, linking aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems. Little is known about how land use affects the biomass or composition of insect emergence. Previous studies are limited to ... ...

    Abstract Emergent aquatic insects constitute an important food source for higher trophic levels, linking aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems. Little is known about how land use affects the biomass or composition of insect emergence. Previous studies are limited to individual time points or seasons, hampering understanding of annual biomass export patterns and detection of phenological changes. Over 1 year's primary emergence period, we continuously determined the biomass, abundance, and identity of >45,000 aquatic insects and recorded land-use-related environmental variables in 20 stream sites using a paired design with upstream forested sites and downstream agricultural sites. Total insect biomass and abundance were 2-7 mg day
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Animals ; Ecosystem ; Insecta ; Biomass ; Food Chain ; Agriculture
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-10-17
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1281439-8
    ISSN 1365-2486 ; 1354-1013
    ISSN (online) 1365-2486
    ISSN 1354-1013
    DOI 10.1111/gcb.16462
    Database MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE

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