https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/634313
標題: | Acute resource pulses from periodical cicadas propagate to belowground food webs but do not affect tree performance | 作者: | Setälä, Heikki Szlavecz, Katalin Pullen, Jamie D Parker, John D Huang, Yumei CHIH-HAN CHANG |
關鍵字: | Magicicada spp.; decomposition; microbial feeding soil fauna; nematode community; pulsed detrital subsidy; resource limitation and NPP; tree performance; trophic interactions | 公開日期: | 十月-2022 | 出版社: | Ecological Society of America | 卷: | 103 | 期: | 10 | 起(迄)頁: | e3773 | 來源出版物: | Ecology | 摘要: | Acute resource pulses can have dramatic legacies for organismal growth, but the legacy effects of resource pulses on broader aspects of community structure and ecosystem processes are less understood. Mass emergence of periodical cicadas (Magicicada spp.) provides an excellent opportunity to shed light on the influence of resource pulses on community and ecosystem dynamics: the adults emerge every 13 or 17 years in vast numbers over much of eastern North America, with a smaller but still significant number becoming incorporated into forest food webs. To study the potential effects of such arthropod resource pulse on primary production and belowground food webs, we added adult cicada bodies to the soil surface surrounding sycamore trees and assessed soil carbon and nitrogen concentrations, plant-available nutrients, abundance and community composition of soil fauna occupying various trophic levels, decomposition rate of plant litter after 50 and 100 days, and tree performance for 4 years. Contrary to previous studies, we did not find significant cicada effects on tree performance despite observing higher plant-available nutrient levels on cicada addition plots. Cicada addition did change the community composition of soil nematodes and increased the abundance of bacterial- and fungal-feeding nematodes, while plant feeders, omnivores, and predators were not influenced. Altogether, acute resource pulses from decomposing cicadas propagated belowground to soil microbial-feeding invertebrates and stimulated nutrient mineralization in the soil, but these effects did not transfer up to affect tree performance. We conclude that, despite their influence on soil food web and processes they carry out, even massive resource pulses from arthropods do not necessarily translate to NPP, supporting the view that ephemeral nutrient pulses can be attenuated relatively quickly despite being relatively large in magnitude. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/634313 | ISSN: | 00129658 | DOI: | 10.1002/ecy.3773 |
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