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Is There Light After Depth? Distribution Of Periphyton Chlorophyll And Productivity In Lake Littoral Zones, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, Shawn P. Devlin, Peter B. Mcintyre, M. J. Vander Zanden
Is There Light After Depth? Distribution Of Periphyton Chlorophyll And Productivity In Lake Littoral Zones, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, Shawn P. Devlin, Peter B. Mcintyre, M. J. Vander Zanden
Biological Sciences Faculty Publications
Periphyton and phytoplankton contribute to the base of lake food webs, and both groups of microalgae are influenced by resources and physical forcing. Spatial variation in light availability interacts with the physical dynamics of the water column to create predictable depth gradients in resources and disturbance that may differentially affect periphyton vs phytoplankton. We characterized the depth distribution of chlorophyll and productivity of periphyton on sediments (epipelon) and phytoplankton in the euphotic zones of 13 oligomesotrophic lakes that span a large size gradient (0.017–32,600 km2). Epipelic chlorophyll usually increased with depth in the epilimnion. Light was the primary …
Periphyton Production On Wood And Sediment: Substratum-Specific Response To Laboratory And Whole-Lake Nutrient Manipulations, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, David M. Lodge
Periphyton Production On Wood And Sediment: Substratum-Specific Response To Laboratory And Whole-Lake Nutrient Manipulations, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, David M. Lodge
Biological Sciences Faculty Publications
Substratum heterogeneity is a large source of variability in periphyton production, but the influence of substratum on periphyton response to experimental manipulations is rarely measured. Using laboratory and whole-lake experiments, we compared area-specific primary production of periphyton on wood (epixylon) and sediment (epipelon), and tested whether periphyton on the 2 substrata responded differently to water-column fertilization. In the laboratory, natural periphyton assemblages on wood or sediment were exposed to 1 of 6 treatments in a fully factorial (light [250, 70, or 10 μmol m−2 s−1] × nutrient [control or + N and P]) experiment. We measured 14 …