bae 495r stream ecology
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Broad overview of stream ecologyTRANSCRIPT
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Concepts in Stream Ecology
• Streams are ecosystems
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• Communities of organisms and their physical, chemical, and biological environments
Ecosystems
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Fundamental requirements of life
• Basic needs for life:- Water:
o All organisms on earth need water to live
o Even Organisms in Aerial milieu
- Nutrients:o We are (mainly) made of
CHONSP!
- Energy:o While growing and once grown,
need energy!
- Electron acceptor(s)
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• 70% by weight of living organisms- Babies:78%- 1 yr : 65%- Men 60%, Women 55%
• Solvent, Transport, support
• Source of H and O
in metabolic breakdown
of protein and carbohydrates
What does water do for our cells?
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Why do we need nutrients?
• Organisms mainly made of CHONSP
• Carbohydrates:- Mostly CHO- store energy, - Cell structure for
plants (cellulose)
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Why do we need nutrients?• Proteins: CHONS
- engine for cell - metabolism- Regulate exchanges- Catalyse reactions
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Why do we need nutrients?
• Lipids: CHOP- Store energy- Cell walls:
ophospholipids
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How does the energy circulate in cells?
• The magic molecule: ATP Adenosine TriPhosphate
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How does the energy circulate in cells?
• ATP “recharged” by energy rich molecules
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What about Oxygen?
• Oxygen: main electron acceptor
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Take home points
• All organisms need water, nutrients, energy and electron donors to live
• Stay wet or drink
• Get nutrients for cell structures
• Get energy:- Sun light- Food
• Have the best electronacceptor: oxygen
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Who lives in streams?
• Make a list of all organisms you can think that live in streams
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Who lives in streams?
• Bacteria, virus
• Amoeba, rotifers
• Plants:- Algae: microscopic and macroscopic- Bryophytes (mosses) - Angiosperms (flowering plants)- Fungi
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Who lives in streams?
• Animals:- Protozoa:
o Sponges (Bryozoa)
- Macroinvertebrateso Acoelomate worms
– Planaria or flatworm (Turbellaria)
– Nematode or Threadworm, Horsehair worm (Nematoda)
o Mollusca– Clams (Bivalva)
– Snails (Gasteropoda)
o Annelida– Leeches (Hirudinea or Achaeta)
– Tubifex worm (Oligochaeta)
– Bristle worms (Polychaeta)
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Who lives in streams?
• Animals:- Macroinvertebrates (Cont’d)
o Arthropods:– Spiders (Arachnida)– Crayfish, Water flea (Crustacea)– Stonefly, Mayflies, Caddisfly (Insects)
- Vertebrates:o Vertebrates
– Lamprey (Agnatha)– Fish (Osteichthyes)– Frogs (Amphibians)– Water snakes and turtles (Reptiles)– Kingfisher, Dipper (Birds) – Otter, beaver (Mammals)
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Algae: What do they look like?
• Microscopic and macroscopic algae- Diatoms commonly
comprise the dominate algal group in river biofilms in terms of species number and biomass.
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Aquatic mosses (Bryophytes)
Christmas Moss (Vesicularia montagnei)
Zipper Moss – (Fissidens zippelianus)
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Aquatic flowering plantsMyriophyllum spp – Watermilfoils
Water lilies – Nuphar spp
Glyceria Fluitans
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Aquatic sponges
• Freshwater sponges are aquatic animals that grow in lakes, rivers, bogs, and streams attached to submerged rocks, sticks, logs, or aquatic vegetation. These sedentary animals feed by filtering small particles from the water, and so are thought to be sensitive indicators of pollution.
• The sponges may be colored green by algae that live inside their cells or they may be beige to brown or pinkish in color.
• Sponges can be delicate to very firm feeling but are not slimy or filmy. Some sponges prefer the underside of logs and sticks; these are usually not green in color.
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Acoelomate worms
• Turbellarians or planarians (Turbellaria) possess a pharynx tube that extends to feed on whole small animals or suck tissues from dead or wounded prey.
http://trc.ucdavis.edu/biosci10v/bis10v/media/ch16/blood_fluke.html
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Nematods
• Nematodes exhibit a wide range of feeding habits: carnivorous, herbivorous and parasitic
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Horsehair worms
• Horsehair eggs are laid in the water in long strings where the adults live. After hatching, the larvae penetrate some aquatic insect;
• they escape in some unknown way from this host and find their way into a second host; usually a beetle, cricket, or grasshopper;
• in the body cavity of the second host the larvae continue their development eventually passing out into the water where they become mature.
• Since the adults live only in water, those that survive probably emerge from terrestrial (flying) insects, which constitute their second hosts, that chance to drown in watering troughs and small ponds.
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Clams
• Freshwater mussels feed by filtering algae and small particles from the water.
• Most species have a larval stage that is parasitic on fish.
• Larvae are released by the female mussel and must locate a certain fish species or die.
• They usually attach to the host fish's gills or fins where they remain for a few weeks or months.
• Larval mussels rarely harm infected fish under natural conditions.
• If essential fish species are removed from the habitat, mussels will not be able to reproduce.
• Support muskrats, otters, wading birds and game fish
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Aquatic snails
• Aquatic snails are a crucial host to the flatworm parasite
• Herbivores
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Leeches
• Leeches suck the blood of fishes, amphibians, birds, and mammals. They also eat snails, insect larvae, and worms
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Tubifex worms
• Tubifex tubifex, also called the sludge worm, is a species of tubificid segmented worm that inhabits the sediments of lakes and rivers on several continents.
• These worms ingest sediments and gain nutrition by selectively digesting bacteria and absorbing molecules through the body wall.
• The worms can survive without oxygen for months, and can survive in areas so heavily polluted with organic matter that almost no other species can endure.
• By forming a protective cyst and lowering its metabolic rate, T. tubifex can survive drought and food shortage.
• Encystment may also function in dispersal of the worm.
• Ecologically, it is important as a source of food for leeches, crustaceans, insects, and fishes.
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Bristle worm
• Mostly in seawater
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Aquatic Spiders
• Water spiders breathe air. They use their silk to make a spherical container under the water, attaching the silk to water plants.
• When this is done they collect air from the surface and place it in the silk container.
• They even lay their eggs in this trapped air bubble
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Crustaceans
Sawbug
Crayfish
Daphnia
Copepods
Mostly herbivores
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Insects in NC
• Ephemeroptera – mayflies• Plecoptera – stoneflies• Trichoptera – caddisflies• Odonata – damsel and dragonflies• Coleoptera – beetles• Megaloptera – Dobson and Alderflies• Diptera – True flies
EPT
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Characteristics of a stream
• Carries water, particulate and dissolved matter at the lowest point of the land upstream
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Particular longitudinal and transversal shape
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Highly variable parameters of the ecosystem
• Viscous milieu• Velocity and weight of water create
momentum and shear stress at the sediment water interface
• High variability- Velocity, momentum and shear stress- Transport of bedload - Turbidity and particulate matter- Nutrient and oxygen concentrations
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Stream Ecosystems
• Mostly downstream fluxes of energy and matter
• Lateral and vertical the riparian and hyporheic zones
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• Why do you think the riffle could be a good milieu?
The riffle: a wonderful milieu
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The riffle: a wonderful milieu
• Elevation dropHigher velocityHigher shear stressMore resuspension of fine sedimentsOnly bigger particles stayRiffle contain gravel size stones at their
surfaces
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The riffle: a wonderful milieu (Cont’d)
• Highly porous medium- High hydraulic conductivity- Water can get into
- Advective transport of O2, nutrients and particulate matter
- Hydraulic refugia
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The riffle: a wonderful milieu (Cont’d)
• Relatively Shallow
• Smaller cross section area
• Obstacles relatively bigger
• Woody debris go agroud
• Leaf pack can develop
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How do all organisms find their requirements for life in streams?
• Water?
• Source of nutrients?
• Source of energy?
• Source of electron donor (oxygen)?
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Where do organisms find oxygen?
• Primary producers produce oxygen during daylight: photosynthesis
• At night and for all other organisms: from water
• Dissolved oxygen in water
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Sources and sinks of oxygen in water
• Sources:- Photosynthesis from autotrophs- Reaeration at the interface between water
and atmosphere
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Reaeration
• Partial pressure equilibrium between atmosphere and water
• dissolved gas mole fraction of any gas, xi, at equilibrium conditions
• PO2=0.2095
• The colder the water the
higher the potential for
oxygenated waters
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Reaeration (Cont’d)
• DO values also depend on - The depth of the water- The velocity of the water- Water T°C
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Where is water fast and shallow in streams?
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- Oxygen concentration highest in riffles!!!
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Can oxygen be a problem?
• Oxygen content in streams and sediment driven by the ratio between supply and demand.
• All organisms from bacteria to fish respire and consume oxygen
• In sediment oxygen can be all consumed: anoxia
• Oxygen: major driver of stream habitat and biogeochemical processes
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Challenges when an autotroph in a stream
• Find a spot
• Find a point of anchorage
• Stay in place
• Find light
• Find nutrients
• Avoid being grazed
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Biofilms
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Biofilms
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Increased water exchange in Biofilms
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Challenges for macrophytes in streams
• Withstand the currents
• Obtain nutrients from both sediment and water column
Macrophytes
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Challenges when a fungus or Shredder
• Have something to shred upon- Leaf packs, dead algae macrophytes
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Riparian plant community = stream organic dynamics
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Wood Mass Estimates (Valette, et. Al.)
•Old Growth Streams = 8.33 kg/m²
•Second Growth Streams = 0.05 kg/m²
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Challenges when a fungus or Shredder
• Have something to shred upon- Leaf packs, dead algae macrophytes
• Capture particulate matter
• Clogging
• Not getting washed away- Ability to hide
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Video for capture
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Challenges when a fungus or Shredder
• Have something to shred upon- Leaf packs, dead algae
macrophytes
• Capture particulate matter• Clogging• Not getting washed away• Ability to hide from current and
predators
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Challenges for scrapers
• Be were the biofilms are
• Have oxygen
• Withstand current
• Hide or develop strategies
against predators
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Challenges for filters and collectors
• Have enough oxygen
• Enough food
• Not too many fine particles
• Clogging
• Hide from predators
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Challenges for invertebrate predators
• The food chain above must exist
• Have enough oxygen
• Live where the preys live
• Not get washed away
Ephemeroptera
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Challenges for higher predators
• Have enough oxygen
• Find where the insects and fish are
• Locations to rest, feed and reproduce
• Depend on the entire food chain above
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Take home points: Where does energy come from?
• Light for the autotrophs (autochtonous origin)
• For most organisms:- Dead organic matter- Crucial importance of Fine Particulate Organic
Matter (FPOM)
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Why would anyone want to live in a riffle?
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Why would anyone want to live in a riffle?
• Autotrophs- More light- More renewal of nutrients
• Heterotrophs- More oxygen in water and sediment- Smaller cross section area thus higher probability
of capturing food for the same volume scanned- Higher chance for obstacle for leaf packs
oWoody debris essential as physical barriers
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Take home points: Why would anyone want to live in a pool?
• Autotrophs- Less shear stress- Soft sediment for roots and for nutrient supply
• Heterotrophs- Less shear stress (herbivores)- Soft sediment for habitat (Bivalva)- Fine particulates for detritivores
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Take home points: Small obstacles: key to ecosystem health
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Biological indicators of good health
Mayfly (Ephemeroptera)
Stonefly
(Plecoptera) Caddisfly
(Trichoptera)
EPT
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In-Stream habitat
• Macrohabitats: riffles and pools
• Microhabitats: bankroots, leaf packs, large woody debris, hyporheos, other vegetation
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Great diversity of habitat in streams
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Can search for nutrient, energy, oxygen be altered?
• Eutrophication
• Turbidity of water, erosion and increased bedload
• No woody debris
• No habitat for the whole food chain
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Some biological indicators of water quality
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