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Stream Communities and River Continuum Concept
Stream Communities and River Continuum Concept
Soil DOM
and
FPOM!
Functional
Feeding Groups
Shredders: Tear and eat
CPOM for nutrition of
microbial colonizers.
Scrapers: “Grazers” of
biofilms and benthic algae.
Piercers: Suck juices from
macrophytes.
Collectors: FPOM specialists.
Predators: Eat other inverts.
All produce FPOM in the
form of feces!
Seasonal community
succession in small
cold-water streams…
Study and
understand
the contents
of Table 22.2!