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Are Algae Relevant to the Detritus-Based Food Web in Tank-Bromeliads? 1 ´ ` 1 ´ 2 ´ 3 2 Olivier Brouard , Anne-Helene Le Jeune , Celine Leroy , Regis Cereghino , Olivier Roux , Laurent 3 2 1 1 Pelozuelo , Alain Dejean , Bruno Corbara , Jean-Franc¸ois Carrias * ´ ´ ` ˆ 1 LMGE, Laboratoire Microorganismes: Genome et Environnement, Universite Blaise Pascal, UMR CNRS 6023, Aubiere, France, 2 Ecologie des Forets de Guyane, UMR CNRS ´ 8172, Campus Agronomique, Kourou, France, 3 EcoLab, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Universite Paul Sabatier, UMR CNRS 5245, Toulouse, France Abstract We assessed the occurrence of algae in five species of tank-bromeliads found in contrasting environmental sites in a Neotropical, primary rainforest around the Nouragues Research Station, French Guiana. The distributions of both algal abundance and biomass were examined based on physical parameters, the morphological characteristics of bromeliad species and with regard to the structure of other aquatic microbial communities held in the tanks. Algae were retrieved in all of the bromeliad species with mean densities ranging from ,102 to 104 cells/mL. Their biomass was positively correlated to light exposure and bacterial biomass. Algae represented a tiny component of the detrital food web in shaded bromeliads but accounted for up to 30 percent of the living micr