Complex interactions of fish, snails, and littoral zone periphyton

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1980-1994

  McCollum, Elizabeth Walker ^a,d   Crowder, Larry B ^b   Andy McCollum, S ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Hospital for Special Surgery

Author keywords

Algae; Direct effects; Fish; Grazing; Indirect effects; Lepomis; Littoral zone; North Carolina; Nutrient recycling; Periphyton; Physella; Predation; Snails

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PERIPHYTON; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; GASTROPODA; LEPOMIS; LEPOMIS MICROLOPHUS; MICROLOPHUS; PHYSELLA; PHYSELLA HETEROSTROPHA; TRIGANGLIONATA; UNCULTURED CYANOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0031692707     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[1980:CIOFSA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (107)

1. Alexander, J. E., Jr., and A. P. Covich. 1991. Predator avoidance by the freshwater snail Physella virgata in response to the crayfish Procamburus simulans. Oecologia (Berlin) 87:435-442.
2. Beamish, F. W. H., A. J. Nimi, and P. H. K. P. Lett. 1975. Bioenergetics of teleost fishes: environmental influences. Pages 187-209 in L. Bolis, H. P. Maddrell, and K. SchmidtNielsen, editors. Comparative physiology - functional aspects of structured materials. North-Holland Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
3. Brabrand, A., B. A. Faafeng, and J. P. M. Nilssen. 1990. Relative importance of phosphorus supply to phytoplankton production: fish excretion versus external loading. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 47:364-372.
4. Brett, J. R. 1979. Environmental factors and growth. Pages 599-675 in W. S. Hoar, D. J. Randall, and J. R. Brett, editors. Fish physiology. Volume three. Bioenergetics and growth. Academic Press, New York, New York, USA.
5. Brönmark, C. 1989. Interactions between epiphytes, macrophytes and freshwater snails: a review. Journal of Molluscan Studies 55:299-311.
6. _. 1994. Effects of tench and perch on interactions in a freshwater, benthic food chain. Ecology 75:1818-1824.
7. Brönmark, C., S. P. Klosiewski, and R. A. Stein. 1992. Indirect effects of predation in a freshwater, benthic food chain. Ecology 73:1662-1674.
8. Brooks, J. L., and S. I. Dodson. 1965. Predation, body size, and the composition of the plankton. Science 150:28-35.
9. Brown, K. M., and D. R. DeVries. 1985. Predation and the distribution and abundance of a pulmonate pond snail. Oecologia (Berlin) 66:93-99.
10. Burkholder, J. M., and R. G. Sheath. 1985. Characteristics of softwater streams in Rhode Island. I. A. Comparative analysis of physical and chemical variables. Hydrobiologia 120:97-108.
11. Burkholder, J. M., and R. G. Wetzel. 1989a. Epiphytic microalgae on natural substrata in a hardwater lake: seasonal dynamics of community structure, biomass and ATP content. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Supplementband 83:1-56.
12. Burkholder, J. M., and R. G. Wetzel. 1989b. Microbial colonization on natural and artificial macrophytes in a phosphorus-limited, hardwater lake. Journal of Phycology 25:55-65.
13. Burkholder, J. M., R. G. Wetzel, and K. K. Klomparens. 1990. Direct comparison of phosphate uptake by adnate and loosely attached microalgae within an intact biofilm matrix. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 56:2882-2890.
14. Carney, H., P. Richarson, C. Goldman, and R. Richards. 1988. Seasonal phytoplankton demographic process and experiments on interspecific competition. Ecology 69:664-678.
15. Carpenter, S. R., and J. F. Kitchell. 1992. Trophic cascade and biomanipulation: interface of research and management - A reply to DeMelo et al. Limnology and Oceanography 37:208-213.
16. Carpenter, S. R., and J. F. Kitchell. 1993a. Experimental lakes, manipulations and measurements. Pages 15-25 in S. R. Carpenter and J. F. Kitchell, editors. The trophic cascade in lakes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
17. Carpenter, S. R., and J. F. Kitchell. 1993b. The Trophic Cascade in Lakes. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK.
18. Carpenter, S. R., J. F. Kitchell, and J. R. Hodgson. 1985. Cascading trophic interactions and lake productivity. BioScience 35:634-639.
19. Carpenter, S. R., J. F. Kitchell, J. R. Hodgson, P. A. Cochran, J. J. Elser, M. M. Elser, D. M. Lodge, D. Kretchmer, X. He, and C. N. vonEnde. 1987. Regulation of lake primary productivity by food web structure. Ecology 68:1863-1876.
20. Cattaneo, A., and J. Kalff. 1986. The effect of grazer size manipulation on periphyton communities. Oecologia (Berlin) 69:612-617.
21. Crowder, L. B., R. W. Drenner, W. C. Kerfoot, D. J. McQueen, E. L. Mills, U. Sommer, C. N. Spencer, and M. J. Vanni. 1988. Food web interactions in lakes. Pages 141-160 in S. R. Carpenter, editor. Complex interactions in lake communities. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
22. Crowl, T. A., and A. P. Covich. 1990. Predator-induced lifehistory shifts in a freshwater snail. Science 247:949-951.
23. Cukcr, B. E. 1983. Grazing and nutrient interaction in controlling the activity and composition of the epilithic algal community of an arctic lake. Limnology and Oceanography 28:33-141.
24. D'Elia, C. F. and P. A. Steudler. 1977. Determination of total nitrogen in aqueous samples using persulfate digestion. Limnology and Oceanography 22:760-764.
25. DeMelo, R., R. France, and D. J. McQueen. 1992. Biomanipulation-Hit or myth? Limnology and Oceanography 37:192-207.
26. Dillon, P., and F. Rigler. 1974. The phosphorus-chlorophyll relationship in lakes. Limnology and Oceanography 19:767-773.
27. Drenner, R. W., S. T. Threlkeld, and M. D. McCracken. 1986. Experimental analysis of the direct and indirect effects of an omnivorous filter-feeding clupeid on plankton community structure. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 43:1935-1945.
28. Elliott, J. M. 1981. Some aspects of thermal stress on freshwater teleosts. Pages 209-246 in Stress and fish. A. D. Pickering, editor. Academic Press, London, UK.
29. Elwood, J. W., J. D. Newbold, A. F. Trimble, and R. W. Stark. 1981. The limiting role of phosphorus in a woodland stream ecosystem: effects of P enrichment on leaf decomposition and primary producers. Ecology 62:146-158.
30. Galbraith, M. G. 1967. Size-selective predation of Daphnia by rainbow trout and yellow perch. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 96:1-10.
31. Hambright, K. D., R. J. Trebatoski, R. Drenner, and D. Kettle. 1986. Experimental study of the impacts of bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus} and largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) on pond community structure. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 43:1171-1176.
32. Hansson, L. 1988. Effects of competitive interactions on the biomass and development of planktonic and periphytic algae in lakes. Limnology and Oceanography 33:121-128.
33. _. 1990. Quantifying the impact of periphytic algae on nutrient availability for phytoplankton. Freshwater Biology 24:265-273.
34. _. 1992. The role of food chain composition and nutrient availability in shaping algal biomass development. Ecology 73:241-247.
35. Hansson, L., L. Johansson, and L. Persson. 1987. Effects of fish grazing on nutrient release and succession of primary producers. Limnology and Oceanography 32:723-729.
36. Harris, G. P. 1986. Phytoplankton ecology: structure, function and fluctuation. Chapman and Hall, London, UK.
37. Harris, P. M. 1992. Community-wide consequences of single-species perturbations in experimental aquatic systems. Dissertation. Department of Zoology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
38. Hecky, R. E., and R. H. Hesslein. 1995. Contribution of benthic algae to lake food webs as revealed by stable isotope analysis. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 14:631-653.
39. Hrbacek, J. 1962. Species composition and the amount of Zooplankton in relation to fish stock. Rozpravy Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved. Rada Matematickych a Priodnich Ved 72:1-116.
40. Hunter, R. D. 1980. Effects of grazing on the quantity and quality of freshwater aufwuchs. Hydrobiologia 69:251-259.
41. Hunter, M. D., and P. W. Price. 1992. Playing chutes and ladders: heterogeneity and the relative roles of bottom-up and top-down forces in natural communities. Ecology 73:724-732.
42. Kerfoot, W. C. 1987. Cascading effects and indirect pathways. Pages 57-70 in C. Kerfoot and A. Sih, editors. Pre dation. University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
43. Kitchell, J. F., and S. R. Carpenter. 1993. Synthesis and new directions. Pages 332-350 in S. R. Carpenter and J. F. Kitchell, editors. Trophic Cascade in Lakes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
44. Kraft, C. E. 1992. Estimates of phosphorus and nitrogen cycling by fish using a bioenergetics approach. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 49:2596-2604.
45. Kuhn, D. L., J. L. Plafkin, J. Cairns Jr., and R. Lowe. 1981. Qualitative characterization of aquatic environments using diatom life-form strategies. Transactions of the American Microscope Society 100:165-182.
46. Lamberti, G. A., and V. H. Resh. 1983. Stream periphyton and insect herbivores: an experimental study of grazing by a caddisfly population. Ecology 64:1124-1135.
47. Leibold, M. A. 1989. Resource edibility and the effects of predators and productivity on the outcome of trophic interactions. American Naturalist 134:922-949.
48. Littler, M. M. 1980. Morphological form and photosynthetic performances of marine macroalgae: tests of a functional/ form hypothesis. Botanica Marina 22:161-165.
49. Lodge, D. M., J. W. Barko, D. Strayer, J. M. Melack, G. G. Mittelbach, R. W. Howarth, B. Menge, and J. E. Titus. 1988. Spatial heterogeneity and habitat interactions in lake communities. Pages 181-208 in S. R. Carpenter, editor. Complex interactions in lake communities. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.
50. Lodge, D. M., M. W. Kershner, and J. Aloi. 1994. Effects of an omnivorous crayfish (Orconecies rusticus) on a freshwater littoral food web. Ecology 75:1265-1281.
51. Lowe, R. L., and R. D. Hunter. 1988. Effect of grazing by Physa integra on periphyton community structure. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 7:29-36.
52. Lund, J. W. G., C. Kipling, and E. D. LeCren. 1958. The inverted microscope method of estimating algal numbers and the statistical basis of estimations by counting. Hydrobiologia 11:142-170.
53. Martin, T. H. 1990. Direct and indirect effects of fish pre dation on the fresh-water littoral benthos. Dissertation, Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
54. Martin, T. H., L. B. Crowder, C. F. Dumas, and J. M. Burkholder. 1992. Indirect effects of fish on macrophytes in Bays Mountain Lake: evidence for a littoral trophic cascade. Oecologia (Berlin) 89:476-481.
55. Mather, M. E., M. J. Vanni, T. E. Wissing, S. A. Davis, and M. H. Schaus. 1995. Regeneration of nitrogen and phosphorus by bluegill and gizzard shad: effect of feeding history. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 52:2327-2339.
56. McCollum, S. A., and J. Van Buskirk. 1996. Costs and benefits of a predator-induced polyphenism in the gray treefrog, Hyla chroysoscelis. Evolution 50:583-593.
57. McCormick, P. V. 1990. Direct and indirect effects of consumers on benthic algae in isolated pools of an ephemeral stream. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 47:2057-2065.
58. McCormick, P. V., and R. J. Stevenson 1989. Effects of snail grazing on benthic algal community structure in different nutrient environments. Journal of North American Benthological Society 8:162-172.
59. McCormick, P. V., and R. J. Stevenson. 1991. Grazer control of nutrient availability in the periphyton. Oecologia (Berlin) 86:287-291.
60. McQueen. D. J., J. R. Post, and E. L. Mills. 1986. Trophic relationships in freshwater pelagic ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 43:1571-1581.
61. Mills, E. L., J. L. Forney, and K. J. Wagner. 1987. Cascading effect of predation on the Oneida Lake food chain. Pages 118-131 in C. Kerfoot and A. Sih, editors. Predation. University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
62. Morrison, D. F. 1976. Multivariate statistical methods. McGraw Hill, New York, New York, USA.
63. Mulholland, P. J., A. D. Steinman, A. V. Palumbo, J. W. Elwood, and D. B. Kirschtel. 1991. Role of nutrient cycling and herbivory in regulating periphyton communities in laboratory streams. Ecology 72:966-982.
64. Munawar, M., P. Stadelmann, and I. F. Munawar. 1974. Phytoplankton biomass, species composition and primary production at a nearshore and midlake station of Lake Ontario during IFYGL. Pages 629-652 in International Association of Great Lakes Research, Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Great Lakes Research.
65. Mundie, J. H., K. S. Simpson, and C. J. Perrin. 1991. Responses of stream periphyton and benthic insects to increases in dissolved inorganic phosphorus in a mesocosm. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 48:2061-2072.
66. Muntenau, N., and E. J. Malay. 1981. The effect of current on the distribution of diatoms settling on submerged glass slides. Hydrobiologia 78:278-282.
67. Northcote T. G. 1988. Fish in the structure and function of freshwater ecosystems: a "top-down" view. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 45:361-379.
68. Paine, R. T. 1980. Food webs: linkage, interaction strength, and community infrastructure. Journal of Animal Ecology 49:667-685.
69. Parsons, T. R., Y. Maita, and C. M. Lalli. 1985. A manual of chemical and biological methods for seawater analysis. Pergamon, New York, New York, USA.
70. Peters, R. H. 1986. The role of prediction in limnology. Limnology and Oceanography 31:1143-1159.
71. Porter, K. G. 1977. The plant-animal interface in freshwater ecosystems. American Scientist 65:159-170.
72. Power, M. E. 1992. Top-down and bottom-up forces in food webs: Do plants have primacy? Ecology 73:733-746.
73. Prepas, E. E., and F. A. Rigler. 1982. Improvements in quantifying the phosphorus concentration in lake water. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 39:822-829.
74. Prescott, G. W. 1962. Algae of the western Great Lakes area. William C. Brown, Dubuque, Iowa, USA.
75. _. 1978. How to know the freshwater algae. William C. Brown, Dubuque, Iowa, USA.
76. Pringle, C. 1990. Nutrient spatial heterogeneity: effects on community structure, physiognomy, and diversity of stream algae. Ecology 71:905-920.
77. Reinertsen, H., A. Jensen, A. Langeland, and Y. Olsen. 1986. Algal competition for phosphorus: the influence of zooplankton and fish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 43:1 135-1 141.
78. Rhee, G. Y. 1978. Effects of N:P atomic ratios and nitrate limitation on algal growth, cell composition and nitrate uptake. Limnology and Oceanography 23:10-25.
79. Ribcr. H. H., and R. G. Wetzel. 1987. Boundary-layer and internal diffusion effects on phosphorus fluxes in lake periphyton. Limnology and Oceanography 32:1181-1194.
80. Rice, J. A., J. E. Breck, S. M. Bartell, and J. F. Kitchell. 1983. Evaluating the constraints of temperature, activity, and consumption on growth of largemouth bass. Environmental Biology of Fishes 9:263-275.
81. Roos, P. J. 1983. Dynamics of periphytic communities. Pages 5-10 in R. G. Wetzel, editor. Periphyton of freshwater communities. W. Junk, The Hague, The Netherlands.
82. Rosemond, A. D. 1996. Indirect effects of herbivores modify predicted effects of resources and consumption on plant biomass. Pages 149-159 in G. A. Polis and K. O. Winemiller, editors. Food webs: integration of pattern and dynamics. Chapman and Hall, New York, New York, USA.
83. Rosemond, A. D., P J. Mulholland, and J. W. Elwood. 1993. Top-down and bottom-up control of stream periphyton: effects of nutrients and herbivores. Ecology 74:1264-1280.
84. Rychly, J., and B. A. Marina. 1977. The ammonia excretion of trout during a 24-hour period. Aquaculture 11:173-178.
85. SAS Institute. 1987. SAS user's guide: basics. Version 6.04. SAS Institute. Cary, North Carolina, USA.
86. Schindler, D. E., S. R. Carpenter, K. L. Cottingham, X. He, J. R. Hodgson, J. F. Kitchell, and P. A. Soranno. 1996. Food web structure and littoral zone coupling to pelagic trophic cascades. Pages 95-105 m G. A. Polis and K. O. Winemiller, editors. Food webs: integration of patterns and dynamics. Chapman and Hall, New York, New York, USA.
87. Smith, V. H. 1983. Low nitrogen to phosphorus ratios favor dominance by blue-green algae in lake phytoplankton. Science 221:669-671.
88. Sommer, U. 1983. Nutrient competition between phytoplankton species in multispecies chemostat experiments. Archiv für Hydrobiologie. Ergebnisse der Limnologie 96:399-416.
89. Steinman, A. D., P. J. Mulholland, and W. R. Hill. 1992. Functional responses associated with growth form in stream algae. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 11:229-243.
90. Steinman, A. D., P. J. Mulholland, and D. B. Kirschtel. 1991. Interactive effects of nutrient reduction and herbivory on biomass, taxonomic structure, and P uptake in lotic periphyton communities. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 48:1951-1959.
91. Sterner, R. W. 1989. Resource competition during seasonal succession toward dominance by cyanobacteria. Ecology 70:229-245.
92. Stevenson, R. J., R. Singer, D. A. Roberts, and C. W. Boylen. 1985. Patterns of benthic algal abundance with depth, trophic status, and acidity in poorly buffered New Hampshire lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 42:1501-1512.
93. Stewart, A. J. 1987. Responses of stream algae to grazing minnows and nutrients: a field test of interactions. Oecologia (Berlin) 72:1-7.
94. Strong, D. R. 1992. Are trophic cascades all wet? Differentiation and donor-control in specious ecosystems. Ecology 73:747-754.
95. Swingle, H. S. 1951. Experiments with various rates of stocking bluegills. Lepomis macrochirus (Rafinesque), and largemouth bass. Micropterus salmoides (Lacepede) in ponds. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 80:218-230.
96. Swingle, H. S., and E. V. Smith. 1940. Experiments on the stocking of fish ponds. Transactions of the North American Wildlife Conference 15:218-230.
97. Threlkeld, S. T. 1988. Planktivory and planktivore biomass effects on Zooplankton, phytoplankton, and the trophic cascade. Limnology and Oceanography 33:1362-1375.
98. Tilman, D. 1982. Resource competition and community structure. Monographs in Population Biology 17.
99. Tilman, D., S. Kilham, and P. Kilham. 1982. Phytoplankton community ecology: the role of limiting nutrients. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 13:349-372.
100. Turner, A. M. 1996. Freshwater snails alter habitat use in response to predation. Animal Behaviour 51:747-756.
101. Underwood, G. J. C. 1991. Growth enhancement of the macrophyte Ceratophyllum demersum in the presence of the snail Planorbis planorbis: the effect of grazing and chemical conditioning. Freshwater Biology 26:325-334.
102. Vanni, M. J. 1987. Effects of nutrients and Zooplankton size on the structure of a phytoplankton community. Ecology 68:624-635.
103. _. 1996. Nutrient transport and recycling by consumers in lake food webs: implications for algal communities. Pages 81-95 in G. A. Polis and K. O. Winemiller, editors. Food webs: integration of pattern and dynamics. Chapman and Hall, New York, New York, USA.
104. Vanni, M. J., and D. L. Findlay. 1990. Trophic cascades and phytoplankton community structure. Ecology 71:921-937.
105. Vollenweider, R. A., editor. 1974. A manual on methods for measuring primary production in aquatic environments. Second edition. International Biology Program Handbook 12. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, UK.
106. Wetzel, R. G. 1990. Land-water interfaces: metabolic and limnological indicators. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 24:6-24.
107. Whitford, L. A., and G. J. Schumacher. 1973. A manual of the fresh-water algae. Sparks Press, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.