ArticleFreshwater biology2020
Preferential retention of algal carbon in benthic invertebrates: Stable isotope and fatty acid evidence from an outdoor flume experiment.
Article in Freshwater biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Fatty acid stable isotopes add clarity, but also complexity, to tracing energy pathways in aquatic food webs.Ecosphere (Washington, D.C) · 2021Article
- Polyunsaturated fatty acids in fish tissues more closely resemble algal than terrestrial diet sources.Hydrobiologia · 2021Article
- Preferential retention of algal carbon in benthic invertebrates: Stable isotope and fatty acid evidence from an outdoor flume experiment.Freshwater biology · 2020Article
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Abstract
According to the River Continuum Concept, headwater streams are richer in allochthonous (e.g. terrestrial leaves) than autochthonous (e.g. algae) sources of organic matter for consumers. However, compared to algae, leaf litter is of lower food quality, particularly ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA), and would constrain the somatic growth, maintenance, and reproduction of stream invertebrates. It may be thus assumed that shredders, such as
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