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JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 18 | NUMBER 5 | PAGES 683-714 | 1996
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Relative impacts of copepods, cladocerans and nutrients on the microbial food web of a mesotrophic lake
Department of Zoology, University of Otago PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
Received on June 6, 1995; accepted on December 11, 1995 Calanoid copepods, rather than cladocerans, frequently dominate the zooplankton of lakes in New Zealand. The potential consequences of this domination for the microbial community of mesotrophic Lake Mahinerangi, New Zealand, were determined by field experiments in which Boeckella and Daphnia were added to in situ enclosures in the presence and absence of added nutrients. Boeckella hamata at ambient densities (2 and 81–1) rapidly and severely suppressed ciliate population growth over 4 days, even when microbial growth was enhanced by added nutrients, but effects of copepods on other components of the microbial community (bacteria, photosynthetic picoplankton, heterotrophic nano-flagellates, algae) were slight. In contrast, Daphnia carinata at the same densities (but 3-fold higher biomasses per litre) had a relatively weak effect on ciliates, suppressing ciliate abundance only after 4 days at 8 Daphnia 1–1 (330 µg 1–1); this daphniid density also depressed abundances of large bacterial rods, some photosynthetic picoplankton and the dominant alga, Cyclotella. These results highlight the relative importance of specific trophic linkages in a microbial food web; they also suggest that the dominance of Boeckella in many southern hemisphere lakes may account for relatively low ciliate abundances in these lakes.
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