Coupled macroinvertebrate – microbial community response to a novel allochthonous resource subsidy

Salmon have microbial communities residing on and within them that are directly introduced into streams after death. This introduction takes the form of microbes sloughing off and integrating into substrate biofilms, or indirectly, by invertebrates facilitating dispersal. The objective of this study was to track the effects of introduced salmon carcass microbial communities in stream macroinvertebrates and biofilms during decomposition in a naïve stream.