Central European Stream Ecosystems: The Long Term Study of the Breitenbach

Probably the best–studied stream on earth.
The result of unmatched long–term data taken by the Max–Planck outstation in Schlitz from the nearby Breitenbach stream since 1949, the special focus in this handbook and ready reference is on animal and microorganism occurrence and variation, as well as chemical and physical parameters.
An invaluable data basis for modeling purposes for anyone dealing with stream ecology.


Spis treści:
Foreword V
List of Contributors XIX
Acknowledgments XXI
1 Introduction 1
Peter Zwick
1.1 History of the Limnologische Flussstation Schlitz 1
2 The Breitenbach and Its Catchment 5
Jürgen Marxsen, Rüdiger Wagner, and Hans–Heinrich Schmidt
2.1 Study Area 5
2.2 The Stream and the Catchment 7
2.3 Sampling Sites 18
3 Environmental Characteristics 21
Hans–Heinrich Schmidt
3.1 Climate and Weather 21
3.2 Attempt to Defi ne Substratum Dynamics 44
3.3 Chemistry 56
4 Detrital Energy Sources 73
4.1 Organic Matter in Streams 73
Jürgen Marxsen
4.2 Particulate Organic Matter 74
Jürgen Marxsen and Rüdiger Wagner
4.3 Dissolved Organic Matter 84
Jürgen Marxsen
5 Primary Producers 99
Eileen J. Cox, Jürgen Marxsen, and Thomas G. Horvath
5.1 Primary Producers in Streams 99
5.2 The Communities 100
5.3 Primary Production 126
6 Bacteria and Fungi 131
Jürgen Marxsen
6.1 The Role of Bacteria and Fungi in Streams 131
6.2 The Communities 134
6.3 Microbial Metabolic Activity 163
7 The Fauna of the Breitenbach 195
Peter Zwick, Georg Becker, Rüdiger Wagner, and Joachim Reidelbach
7.1 Sampling Methods 196
Peter Zwick
7.2 Protozoa: Ciliophora 209
Peter Zwick
7.3 Platyhelminthes and Annelida 211
Peter Zwick
7.4 Nematoda 212
Peter Zwick and Heino Christl
7.5 Mollusca 214
Peter Zwick
7.6 Arthropoda 216
Peter Zwick
7.7 Chordata 404
Peter Zwick
7.8 Ecophysiology, Behavior, and Life Cycles of Scrapers 405
Georg Becker
7.9 Effects of Water Temperature along the Breitenbach 476
Rüdiger Wagner
8 Ecosystem Breitenbach 487
8.1 The Sandy Streambed Areas of the Breitenbach 487
Rüdiger Wagner, Jürgen Marxsen, and Hans–Heinrich Schmidt
8.2 Aquatic Insects Emerging over an Artificially Changed Stream Bottom 496
Rüdiger Wagner
8.3 Discharge Patterns Largely Determine Species Abundance and Community Diversity 503
Rüdiger Wagner and Hans–Heinrich Schmidt
8.4 Eleven Years Emergence at Four Sites along the Breitenbach and the Effects of Discharge Patterns on the EPTD Community 526
Rüdiger Wagner and Hans–Heinrich Schmidt
8.5 The Erlenbach – a Comparison with the Breitenbach 543
Rüdiger Wagner
8.6 Modeling Discharge and Insect Abundance with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) 554
Michael Obach and Rüdiger Wagner
8.7 Food Chains and Carbon Flow 564
Jürgen Marxsen
8.8 Global Change and Timing of Insect Emergence at the Breitenbach 570
Peter Zwick and Rüdiger Wagner
9 Summary 585
Georg Becker, Eileen J. Cox, Jürgen Marxsen, Hans–Heinrich Schmidt, Rüdiger Wagner, and Peter Zwick
9.1 Climate, Environment 585
9.2 Detrital Energy Sources 587
9.3 Primary Produce rs 588
9.4 Bacteria 589
9.5 Organic Matter Balance and Carbon Flow 590
9.6 Fauna 591
9.7 Ecosystems 598
References 601
Index 663

Nota biograficzna:
Rudiger Wagner was scientific assistant at the Limnologische Fluss–Station Schlitz, a field station of the former Max–Planck–Institute for Limnology (now MPI for Evolutionary Biology) from 1978 to 2006. He obtained his scientific degrees from the Justus–Liebig–University (Gie?en, Germany). Since then he is at the Institut of Biology, Univeristy of Kassel. He has authored over 250 scientific publication on aquatic insect taxonomy and ecology and on the analysis of long–term ecological data of freshwater insects. He is member of advisory boards and reviewer of professional journals, referee of universities and governments and has been honorary member of advisory councils in nature conservation. In 2007 he was awarded the "Meigen Medaille" of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology.
Jurgen Marxsen was scientific assistant at the Limnologische Fluss–Station Schlitz, a field station of the former Max–Planck–Institute for Limnology (now MPI for Evolutionary Biology) from 1977 to 2006. He obtained his scientific degrees from the University of Kiel. Since 2006 at the Department of Animal Ecology associated to the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Biosystems, Land Use and Nutrition (IFZ) at the University of Giessen. His research activities include stream and groundwater microbial ecology, particularly the role of bacteria in the carbon flow, bacterial production, extra–cellular enzyme activity, application of molecular techniques to microbial ecology, impact of climatic change on running water microbial communities. He is member of editorial boards and ad–hoc referee for scientific journals and national funding organizations.
Sin ce 1968 Peter Zwick was member of the staff of the Limnologische Fluss–Station Schlitz, a field station of the former Max–Planck–Institute for Limnology (now MPI for Evolutionary Biology) and was the scientific head from 1982 to 2006. He obtained his scientific degrees from the University of Kiel. P. Zwick is a world authority in Plecoptera (stone–flies), and other groups of aquatic insects. For his studies he was awarded the `Fabricius Medaille? of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology (1982). His research activities include among many others the general biology of aquatic insects including aspects of phylogeny, ecology and physiology. He was editor of scientific journals, member of editorial boards and an referee of many scientific journals, funding organizations and more.
Eileen Cox was a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft–funded research fellow at the Limnologische Fluss–Station Schlitz from 1985 to 1988, and a scientific assistant there from 1988 to 1989. She obtained her degrees from the University of Bristol (England). Between 1989 and 1992, she was a researcher at the University of Sheffield (England), a research scientist at the Natural History Museum, London since 1992, and Head of Postgraduate Studies at the NHM since 2007. She has authored over 100 research publications, with a particular focus on diatom taxonomy, systematics, ecology and development. She is a past–president of the British Phycological Society and of the International Society for Diatom Research, a former Editor–in–chief of the European Journal of Phycology, and has held other key positions on the councils of learned societies. She has reviewed extensively for scientific journals and grant awarding bodies.