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| العنوان: |
Gelatinous filter feeders increase ecosystem efficiency. |
| المؤلفون: |
Stukel, Michael R., Décima, Moira, Fender, Christian K., Gutierrez-Rodriguez, Andres, Selph, Karen E. |
| المصدر: |
Communications Biology; 8/23/2024, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p1-11, 11p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
PREDATION, AMINO acid analysis, ECOSYSTEMS, FOOD chains, PRODUCTIVITY accounting, ISOTOPIC analysis, ALGAL blooms |
| مستخلص: |
Gelatinous filter feeders (e.g., salps, doliolids, and pyrosomes) have high filtration rates and can feed at predator:prey size ratios exceeding 10,000:1, yet are seldom included in ecosystem or climate models. We investigated foodweb and trophic dynamics in the presence and absence of salp blooms using traditional productivity and grazing measurements combined with compound-specific isotopic analysis of amino acids estimation of trophic position during Lagrangian framework experiments in the Southern Ocean. Trophic positions of salps ranging 10–132 mm in size were 2.2 ± 0.3 (mean ± std) compared to 2.6 ± 0.4 for smaller (mostly crustacean) mesozooplankton. The mostly herbivorous salp trophic position was maintained despite biomass dominance of ~10-µm-sized primary producers. We show that potential energy flux to >10-cm organisms increases by approximately an order of magnitude when salps are abundant, even without substantial alteration to primary production. Comparison to a wider dataset from other marine regions shows that alterations to herbivore communities are a better predictor of ecosystem transfer efficiency than primary-producer dynamics. These results suggest that diverse consumer communities and intraguild predation complicate climate change predictions (e.g., trophic amplification) based on linear food chains. These compensatory foodweb dynamics should be included in models that forecast marine ecosystem responses to warming and reduced nutrient supply. Food-web and isotope-based trophic analyses suggest that blooms of salps (gelatinous grazers) can increase ecosystem efficiency and energy transfer to large organisms. These compensatory food-web dynamics may offset predicted trophic amplification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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