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Article Dans Une Revue Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries Année : 2012

Fine sediment on leaves : shredder removal of sediment does not enhance fungal colonisation

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Inorganic fine sediments are easily carried into streams and rivers from disturbed land. These sediments can affect the stream biota, including detritivorous invertebrates (shredders) and impair ecosystem functions, such as leaf litter decomposition. We hypothesized that fine sediment (kaolin) deposited on leaves would reduce or suppress fungal development, reducing decomposition rates of leaves. Moreover, we predicted that shredders would act as ecosystem engineers by perturbing sediment deposition, reducing its impact on decomposition and fungi. We used a fully crossed experimental design of sediment addition (control, 400 mg L-1) and shredders (none, Gammarus, Potamophylax) in laboratory aquaria. Leaf mass loss, sus- pended solids, microbial respiration, fungal biomass and spore production were measured. Sediment addition had no significant effects on the leaf mass remaining nor on shredders' consumption rates. However, sediment slightly reduced fungal assemblage richness and the sporulation rate of three fungal species. The presence of shredders sub- stantially increased the resuspension of fine sediments ([300%),resultinginhighersuspendedloads.However,the action of shredders did not have a significant effect on fungal biomass nor on leaf mass loss. Even if shredders did not enhance fungal colonisation, they affected the settle- ment of fine sediment, serving as allogenic engineers. Our study suggests that concentrations of fine sediment of 400 mg L-1 with short exposure times (192 h) can have some effect on leaf decomposition.
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hal-00979571 , version 1 (16-04-2014)

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Isis Sanpera-Calbet, Eric Chauvet, John S. Richardson. Fine sediment on leaves : shredder removal of sediment does not enhance fungal colonisation. Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries, 2012, vol. 74, pp. 527-538. ⟨10.1007/s00027-011-0245-0⟩. ⟨hal-00979571⟩
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