Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Spor-oikos (The role of aquatic hyphomycete spores in headwater stream food webs: a food quality approach.)

The problem being investigated: Our aim was to understand a uninvestigated process on energy and nutrient flow in headwater streams: the fate of fungal spores. Headwater streams rely on allochthonous organic matter (mainly leaf litter and woody debris), which is used as...