Use of stable isotope of carbon and nitrogen for aquatic ecology studies
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Stable isotopes, aquatic ecology, food webs, microbial loopAbstract
Two distinct pathways of carbon flow are currently recognized in deep sea aquatic food webs: a short pathway based on phytoplankton production known as planktonic and a longer one, which also includes bacteria, protozoans, and the process known as the microbial loop, referred to collectively as the microbial food web. Considering the microbial loop complements the current vision of aquatic food webs, which today continues to be limited in this respect. In this sense, the analysis of natural abundance of the steady isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in aquatic organisms is a technique which permits the definition of the role of the trophic groups which are part of food web. The proportion of isotopes of carbon indicates the autotrophic energy source of an organism while the proportion of nitrogen isotopes, permits to infer, based on the process of trophic breaking, the level of the organisms studied.Downloads
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[3] Lyndeman RL. 1942. The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology. Ecology 23:399-418.
[4] Pomeroy LR. 1974. The ocean food web, a changing paradigm. BioScience 24: 499-504.
[5] Azam F, Fenchel T, Field JG, Gray JS, Meyer-Reil LA, Thingstad F. 1983. The ecological role of water-column microbes in the sea. Marine ecology progress series. Oldendorf. Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 257-263.
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[44] Hamilton SK, Lewis WM, Sippel SJ. 1992 Energy-Sources for Aquatic Animals in the Orinoco River Floodplain - Evidence from Stable Isotopes. Oecologia, 89(3): 324-330.
[45] Calheiros DF. 2003. Influência do pulso de inundação na composição isotópica (ä13C e ä15N) das fontes primárias de energia na planície de inundação do rio Paraguai (Pantanal – MS). Tese de Doutorado. USP- Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, 164p.
[46] Hamilton SK, Sippel SJ, Bunn SE. 2005. Separation of algae from detritus for stable isotope or ecological stoichiometry studies using density fractionation in colloidal silica. Limnol. Oceanogr.: Methods 3, 149–157.
[47] Marty J, Planas D.2008. Comparison of methods to determine algal ä13C in freshwater. Limnol. Oceanogr.: Methods 6, 51–63.Caraballo: Uso de isótopos estables para estudios de ecología acuática
[48] Yoshioka T, Wada E, Hayashi H. 1994. Astable isotope study on seasonal food web dynamic in an eutrophic lake. Ecology 75(3): 835-846.
[49] Grey J, Kelly A, Jones R. 2004. High intraspecific variability in carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios of lake chironomid larvae. Limnol. Oceanogr., 49(1), 2004, 239–244.
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[51] Wantzen KM, Machado FA, Voss M, Boriss H, Junk WJ. 2002. Flood pulse-induced isotopic changes in fish of the Pantanal wetland, Brazil. Aquatic Sciences 64: 239–251.
[52] Guerrero R, Berlanga M. 2004. La Ecología Microbiana se hace mayor de edad. Boletín informativo de la Sociedad Española de Microbiología, No. 34.187
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Use of stable isotope of carbon and nitrogen for aquatic ecology studies. (2009). CIOH Scientific Bulletin, 27, 176-187. https://doi.org/10.26640/22159045.210
