Effects of Watershed Perturbation on Stream Potassium and Calcium Dynamics
作者:
Jackson R. Webster,
Bernard C. Patten,
期刊:
Ecological Monographs
(WILEY Available online 1979)
卷期:
Volume 49,
issue 1
页码: 51-72
ISSN:0012-9615
年代: 1979
DOI:10.2307/1942572
出版商: Ecological Society of America
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Three small streams located at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, North Carolina, USA, on an old field watershed, a pine plantation watershed, and a hardwood forest watershed were investigated to determine effects of watershed perturbation on K and Ca dynamics in the stream ecosystems. Data collected included measurements of litterfall inputs, large particulate organic matter and benthic organism standing crops, large particulate organic matter and organism drift, and insect emergence. We used85Sr and134Cs to estimate detritivore ingestion and elimination rates of Ca and K, respectively. We found that watershed perturbations had altered stream inputs and caused accompanying changes in the stream fauna. Our results indicated that the perturbed streams had less efficient physical processing of allochthonous inputs, but greater biological utilization of inputs. The streams exhibited high resilience to perturbation with complete recovery limited by the recovery rate of allochthonous inputs.
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