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The most well described examples of the way in which terrestrial POC subsidies support aquatic food webs comes from forested streams, where the input of leaf litter (POC) maintain secondary production \cite{wallaceetal_1999} but even streams with high autochthonous production \cite{Mineau_2012} and urbanized streams \cite{Duan_2014} respond to alterations in leaf litter inputs. Dissolved organic carbon inputs into streams have received less attention than POC subsidies but DOC subsidies are an important component of stream organic matter budgets \cite{McDowell_1976} and have been shown to alter the abundance \cite{Bott_1984} and function \cite{Bernhardt_2002} of stream microbial communities. Furthermore, DOC subsidies processed through the microbial loop can support metazoan production \cite{Hall_1998,Wilcox_2005}.  The importance of subsidies of terrestrial plant detritus for lake food webs is also well established. Since lentic systems are generally accretive \cite{WETZEL_2001}, they accumulate a substantial mass of refractory detrital DOC and POC from the watershed \cite{Rich_1978,wetzel_1984,WETZEL_1995}. This persistent supply of organic matter tends to supply heterotrophic respiration in excess of gross primary production (GPP), resulting in net heterotrophy in most lentic systems \cite{Cole_2000, Marcarelli_2011}. \cite{Cole_2000,Marcarelli_2011}.  The importance of terrestrial organic matter subsidies to lentic systems has emphasized the support of pelagic food webs by terrestrially-derived DOC \cite{Carpenter_2005} \cite{Cole_2006} \cite{Pace_2004, Cottingham_2013, Fey_2015}. \cite{Pace_2004,Cottingham_2013,Fey_2015}.  In these studies, DOC imported from the watershed is transferred to the metazoan food web through microbial utilization (CITE). Simultaneously, increases in microbial metabolism results in increases in organic matter mineralization and CO\textsubscript{2} production (CITE). Although recent work has highlighted the connection between terrestrial subsidies and lake pelagia, most of the lakes in the world are small \cite{Downing_2007} with significant benthic pelagic coupling (CITE). \cite{MCCONNELL_1968}