ROA:  Relationships Between Fungi and the Nutritional       Content of Detritus for Leaf-shredding Invertebrates in     Streams
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Microbial ecology, of all areas of general ecology, is the least                well researched and understood.  This is most obvious in aquatic                microbial ecology.  In recent years, because of genetic                         engineering of microbes, there is a national need to know more                  about microbial ecology.  Dr. Suberkropp, of the University of                  Alabama, proposes to study aquatic microbial and invertebrate                   communities.                                                                                                                                                    The proposed studies are designed to determine the degree to                    which the species composition of fungi colonizing leaves in                     different stream habitats affects the growth of leaf-shredding                  habitats.  The dynamics of leaf conditioning by the dominant                    fungi in these steams will be determined to establish the time                  required by each species to fully condition leaves in the                       laboratory.  The rates of growth, ingestion, egestion and                       respiration of shredders from different streams fed diets of                    leaves that have been fully conditioned by pure cultures of these               fungi will be used to estimate the food quality of fungal                       species.  Energetics of different shredder taxa fed fungi of high               and low food quality will be compared.  The effect of fungal                    species composition on shredder growth will be examined for                     leaves colonized in streams containing fungal communities                       dominated by different fungal species.  The fungal species                      present on leaves will be determined, and shredder performance on               diets of these leaves will be evaluated.  Results will be related               to food quality of the fungi colonizing leaves in different                     streams.  The studies proposed will provide a comparative data                  base on relationships between shredder performance and diets of                 different fungal species in pure culture and in natural microbial               communities and should increase understanding of the range of                   interactions that can occur between these two groups of                         organisms.
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{'Code': '1128', 'Text': 'Population & Community Ecology'}
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