التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Invasive mussels reduce community bioturbation but do not affect oxygen penetration or nutrient fluxes in organic‐poor Great Lakes sediments. |
| المؤلفون: |
Huff, Audrey, Rigdon, Matt, Zalusky, John, Katsev, Sergei, Ozersky, Ted |
| المصدر: |
Freshwater Biology; Nov2024, Vol. 69 Issue 11, p1672-1685, 14p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
LAKE sediments, BENTHOS, NUTRIENT cycles, OLIGOCHAETA, GEOCHEMISTRY |
| مستخلص: |
Invasive zebra and quagga (dreissenid) mussels have disrupted nutrient cycling and benthic macrofauna communities in the Laurentian Great Lakes and other invaded ecosystems. Dreissenids are now the dominant benthic macroinvertebrate in the Great Lakes, replacing the formerly dominant native bioturbating amphipod Diporeia spp. Dreissenids and Diporeia interact with their environment in fundamentally different ways, and the consequences of this functional shift in benthic community structure on benthic–pelagic coupling are not well understood, particularly in unproductive offshore lake regions.To determine how functional biology and benthic community structure impact sediment mixing and biogeochemistry in low particulate organic matter (POM) lake regions, we conducted a 6‐week sediment microcosm experiment with dreissenids, Diporeia and oligochaete worms—the second most common Great Lakes benthic macroinvertebrate.We found that sediment mixing rate and depth varied significantly among the taxa. Diporeia mixed sediment the deepest and strongest, followed by oligochaetes, while dreissenids did not appreciably mix sediment. Despite these differences, we found no significant variations among treatments in sediment oxygen penetration depth, sediment respiration (oxygen uptake) or nutrient dynamics.Our results suggest that dreissenids mix sediment less than native Great Lakes taxa, but that differential mixing rates may not measurably affect nutrient and oxygen dynamics in low‐POM sediments. Therefore, mussel effects in these areas may be manifested more through direct mechanisms rather than via altered sediment geochemistry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |