https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/cioe-iaf032217.php

"terrestrial sources accounted for up to 83 % of total zooplankton biomass"

But what tree leaves and seeds did a particular zooplankton eat??

The nice thing about certain native trees is that they drop their seeds into the stream in the Spring and Summer and they drop their leaves into the stream in Fall and Winter. This provides nutrients to the stream in all four seasons.

Do the leaves and seeds provide food for all four seasons for the zooplankton where algae only provides food for zooplankton only in the Summer??

I grew up next to a stream where the farmers had cleared out most of the trees from the pasture except for an occasional shade tree for the cattle. When the Rod & Gun Club planted willows along the stream the willows provided the necessary nutrients to the stream for the invertebrates so I had big brown trout to harvest. 

A stream running through a pasture without no trees I call a "Milwaukee Canal". 

A lot of streams were devastated when Dutch Elm Disease killed off the American Elm tree. Did the loggers harvest all of the silver maple along the streams?? 

I have been watching Wisconsin Trout Fishing on youtube ( A talented spinner fisherman) and I can predict when he will catch a huge brown trout or brook trout by which species of trees is on the bank by the stream.

P.S. If Bob Hunt would have planted the native wetland trees along his stream maybe Bob Hunt could have harvested a Wisconsin record brook trout.

"And then I ask myself, why do I rise?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rJn7RtWDgU&t=150s

Gimp, Bob Hunt new the value of wood in the stream as stated at 14:37 of this video, "Abundance of most important trout food item, case building caddis, increased by 70 % in response to greater attachment area provided by increased gravel and wood components in the bank cover.

The area along the stream is grass as shown in the video at 18:26 which probably was harvested by the previous owner for hay. There are no river trees like willow, cottonwood, American elm and silver maple which were probably on the banks before the settlers came to this area.

I'm surprised that Bob Hunt knowing the importance of these river trees next to a stream that provide the food for the health of the invertebrates in the stream that Bob Hunt did not plant some river trees next to this stream.

Wikipedia states that brook trout eat aquatic insects, terrestrial insects, crustaceans, frogs, amphibians, smaller fish, invertebrates and voles. Why didn't Bob Hunt provide habitat for the food that BIG brook trout eat??   

P.S. The Frank Hornberg TU Chapter built this same instream habitat structure in this video except we used sand bags instead of rock. We punched 1/8 inch holes into the side so the sand bags so the grass roots could anchor into the sand bags. 

These structures work great in a slow gradient stream in the Central Sands but would never work in most Driftless Area streams. Of course with the floods in the Driftless just about every structure can be blown away.

On my home place in Timber Coulee I planted a willow tree in the middle of the stream. The willow tree never came uprooted through many big floods but it collected a lot of debris. My younger brother cut my willow tree experiment down or the willow tree would still be there in the middle of the stream after all the lunker structures and rocks were washed down the stream. (I caught a 22 inch brown trout in a structure built by me from a dead elm next to my willow tree.)

Oh yes, the willow tree in the middle of a stream probably would not look good in a "Milwaukee Canal" landscape.

I wish I knew how to put pictures on this website and I could show you where willows planted by Westby Rod & Gun are still standing straight and strong after the massive flood with tin from my neighbors shed hanging around them up in branches 20 feet above the stream..

Gimp, a bit of advise, get out your heavy gear when fishing by a native river tree because the biggest trout in the stream will be near the most food in and along the native river tree standing tall on the bank of the stream.