Título:	Variação sazonal na composição química de detritos foliares em zonas ripárias do Cerrado
Autor(es):	Lima, Laís de Souza
Orientador(es):	Gonçalves Júnior, José Francisco
Assunto:	Cerrado rupestre Detritos foliares
Data de publicação:	20-Dez-2016
Data de defesa:	29-Out-2015
Referência:	LIMA, Laís de Souza. Variação sazonal na composição química de detritos foliares em zonas ripárias do Cerrado. 2015. 38 f., il. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ecologia)—Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, 2015.
Abstract:	The organic matter from riparian vegetation that bounds streams are the primary energy source to the aquatic ecosystem. Allochthonous leaf litter have a pronounced biological contribution to streams. The chemical composition of leaf litter plays an important role in leaf litter quality to the aquatic microorganisms, to the litter breakdown process and to the nutrient cycling, since the food webs from these systems are detritus based. The aim of this study was to assess temporal variation on leaf litter chemical composition from the Cerrado riparian vegetation. We hypothesized that leaf litter has lower concentration of nitrogen and phosphorus during the dry season because of nutrient resorption before leaf abscission. Therefore, the C:N and C:P ratios would be higher during the dry season. The study was carried out in three low order preserved streams in Brasília, Brazil. Samples were collected monthly during 24 months (between September of 2010 and august 2012). The 11 firsts months species were identified, however, all the 24 collected months were ground mixed. We measured nutrient (N and P), polyphenol, fiber, lignin and celluloses content. Thereafter we compared the leaf litter chemical composition with precipitation. The results shows that leaf litter chemical composition is narrowly related to the Cerrado climate. Leaf litter are more concentrated on secondary and structural compounds during the dry season than the rainy season. Nevertheless, nutrient content is lower during the dry season, and C:N and C:P ratios are higher, which confirms our hypothesis. Therefore, the leaf litter that falls on the dry season is of worse quality to the aquatic detritivores than the litterfall from the rainy season. Putting together our nutrient results with studies from literature about streams biota, we conclude that there is a relation between temporal pattern of nutritional dynamics, leaf colonization, the detritivorous invertebrates and seasonal climate from Cerrado. This pattern results on ecological processes such as decomposition rate, biogeochemical cycle and nutrient availability the Cerrado riparian ecosystem.
Unidade Acadêmica:	Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (IB)
Informações adicionais:	Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Ecologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, 2015.
Programa de pós-graduação:	Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia
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DOI:	http://dx.doi.org/10.26512/2015.10.D.22003
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