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  • 1
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Biologie in unserer Zeit 29 (1999), S. 375-375 
    ISSN: 0045-205X
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Additional Material: 2 Ill.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
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    In:  Ecology Letters, 2 (2). pp. 65-69.
    Publication Date: 2017-02-22
    Description: Benthic microalgae and the herbivores Idothea chelipes (Isopoda) and Littorina littorea (Gastropoda) were used as an experimental model system to study the effect of herbivore type on primary producer diversity. Both herbivores enhanced diversity at intermediate grazing pressures, the enhancing effect being stronger with Littorina. This difference is explained by differences in the spatial heterogeneity of the grazed microalgal biofilm caused by behavioural differences in spatial grazing patterns. Idothea spreads its grazing pressure rather evenly in space (“lawn-mower” type), whereas Littorina creates pronounced spatial heterogeneity by moving slowly over the biofilm and decimating it within the grazing tracks (“bulldozer” type). Idothea grazing did not enhance biomass patchiness beyond the level of ungrazed controls (maximum/minimum from 1.7 to 5.5), whereas Littorina strongly increased patchiness (maximum/minimum from 45 to 850).
    Type: Article , PeerReviewed
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-20
    Description: Periphyton was grown on transparent plastic substrata in the Kiel Fjord and used for short-term laboratory experiments to study the feeding selectivity of the periwinkle Littorina littorea in response to the vertical structure of the periphyton. The susceptibility of algae to periwinkle grazing was assessed by comparing the species-specific biomass within the grazing tracks of the snails to the biomass outside the tracks. After 3 weeks of incubation, the periphyton consisted of a scattered monolayer of algal cells without vertical structure. No apparent grazing could be found. After 6 weeks of incubation, periphyton consisted of a tightly attached undergrowth (mainly Cocconeis scutellum, Bacillariophyceae, and Myrionema sp., Phaeophyceae) and canopy of filamentous (Melosira moniliformis, Bacillariophyceae) and stalked forms (Achnanthes longipes, Bacillariophyceae). The unicellular diatoms Fragilaria tabulata and Stauroneis constricta grew partly on the primary substratum and partly as epiphytes on the canopy species. The canopy species and the epiphytes were decimated inside the grazing tracks, while the tightly attached undergrowth species appeared ungrazed.
    Type: Article , PeerReviewed
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