Gape-size dependent feeding of age-0 perch (Perca fluviatilis) and age-0 zander (Stizostedion lucioperca) on Daphnia galeata

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 191-207

  Mehner, Thomas ^a,b   Plewa, Matthias ^a   Hülsmann, Stephan ^a   Worischka, Susanne ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOUR; FISH; PLANKTIVORE; PREY SIZE;

BAUTZEN RESERVOIR; GERMANY; SAXONY;

CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA GALEATA; PERCA FLUVIATILIS; STIZOSTEDION LUCIOPERCA;

EID: 0031838858     PISSN: 00039136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/archiv-hydrobiol/142/1998/191     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. ARTS, M. T. & EVANS, D. O. (1987): Precision micrometer measurement of mouth gape of larval fish. - Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 44: 1786-1791.
2. BENNDORF, J. (1995): Possibilities and limits for controlling eutrophication by biomanipulation. - Int. Rev. ges. Hydrobiol. 80: 519-534.
3. BREMIGAN, M. T. & STEIN, R. A. (1994): Gape-dependent larval foraging and zooplankton size: Implications for fish recruitment across systems. - Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 51: 913-922.
4. COLLETTE, B. B., ALI, M. A., HOKANSON, K. E. F., NAGIEC, M., SMIRNOV, S. A., THORPE, J. E., WEATHERLEY, A. H. & WILLEMSEN, J. (1977): Biology of the percids. - J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can. 34: 1890-1899.
5. CONFER, J. L., MILLS, E. L. & O'BRYAN, L. M. (1990): Influence of prey abundance on species and size selection by young yellow perch (Perca flavescens). - Can. J. Fish Aquat. Sci. 47: 882-887.
6. CORTES, E. (1997): A critical review of methods of studying fish feeding based on analysis of stomach contents: application to elasmobranch fishes. - Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci 54: 726-738.
7. CRYER, M., PEIRSON, G. & TOWNSEND, C. R. (1986): Reciprocal interactions between roach, Rutilus rutilus, and zooplankton in a small lake: Prey dynamics and fish growth and recruitment. - Limnol. Oceanogr. 31: 1022-1038.
8. FURNASS, T. I. (1979): Laboratory experiments on prey selection by perch fry (Perca fluviatilis). - Freshwat. Biol. 9: 33-43.
9. GEORGE, E. L. & HADLEY, W. F. (1979): Food and habitat partitioning between rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris) and smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui) young of the year. - Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 108: 253-261.
10. GHAN, D. & SPRULES, W. G. (1993): Diet, prey selection, and growth of larval and juvenile burbot Lota lota (L.). - J. Fish Biol. 39: 47-64.
11. GLIWICZ, Z. M. (1994): Relative significance of direct and indirect effects of predation by planktivorous fish on zooplankton. - Hydrobiologia 272: 201-210.
12. GRAHAM, D. M. & SPRULES, W. G. (1992): Size and species selection of zooplankton by larval and juvenile walleye (Stizostedion vitreum vitreum) in Oneida Lake, New York. - Can. J. Zool. 70: 2059-2067.
13. GUMA'A, S. A. (1978): The food and feeding habits of young perch, Perca fluviatilis, in Windermere.-Freshwat. Biol. 8: 177-187.
14. HANSEN, M. J. & WAHL, D. H. (1981): Selection of small Daphnia pulex by yellow perch fry in Oneida Lake, New York. - Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 110: 64-71.
15. HARTMANN, J. (1983): Two feeding strategies of young fishes. - Arch. Hydrobiol. 96: 496-509.
16. HARTMANN, J. (1986): Interspecific predictors of selected prey of young fishes. - Arch. Hydrobiol., Beih. Ergebn. Limnol. 22: 373-386.
17. HÜLSMANN, S. & MEHNER, T. (1997): Predation by underyearling perch (Perca fluviatilis) on a Daphnia galeata population in a short-term enclosure experiment. -Freshwat. Biol. 38: 209-219.
18. IVLEV, V. S. (1961): Experimental ecology of fishes. - Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, 302 pp.
19. LARSSON, P., JOHNSON, G. & STEIGEN, A. L. (1985): An experimental study of the summer decline in a Daphnia population. - Verh. Int. Verein. Limnol. 22: 3131-3136.
20. MACHAČEK, J. & MATENA, J. (1997): Diurnal feeding patterns of age-0 perch (Perca fluviatilis) and roach (Rutilus rutilus) in a steep-sided reservoir. - Arch. Hydrobiol., Spec. Issues Advanc. Limnol. 49: 59-70.
21. MATHIAS, J. & LI, S. (1982): Feeding habits of walleye larvae and juveniles: Comparative laboratory and field studies. - Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 111: 722-735.
22. MEHNER, T., PLEWA, M., HÜLSMANN, S., VOIGT, H. & BENNDORF, J. (1997): Age-0 fish predation on daphnids - spatial and temporal variability in the top-down manipulated Bautzen reservoir, Germany. - Arch. Hydrobiol., Spec. Issues Advanc. Limnol. 49: 13-25.
23. MEHNER, T., SCHULTZ, H. & HERBST, R. (1995): Interaction of zooplankton dynamics and diet of 0+ perch (Perca fluviatilis L.) in the top-down manipulated Bautzen reservoir (Saxony, Germany) during summer. - Limnologica (Berlin) 25: 1-9.
24. MEHNER, T., SCHULTZ, H., WERNER, M.-G., WIELAND, F., HERBST, R. & BENNDORF, J. (1996): Do 0+ percids couple the trophic cascade between fish and Zooplankton in the top-down manipulated Bautzen reservoir (Germany)? - Publ. Espec. Inst. Esp. Oceanogr. 21: 243-251.
25. MEHNER, T. & WINFIELD, I. J. (eds.) (1997): Trophic interactions of age-0 fish and zooplankton in temperate waters. Proceedings of a Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) workshop, Dresden, February 1996. - Arch. Hydrobiol., Spec. Issues Advanc. Limnol. 49: 1-152.
26. MILLS, E. L., CONFER, J. L. & KRETCHMER, D. W. (1986): Zooplankton selection by young yellow perch: The influence of light, prey density, and predator size. -Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 115: 716-725.
27. MILLS, E. L., CONFER, J. L. & READY, R. C. (1984): Prey selection by young yellow perch: The influence of capture success, visual acuity, and prey choice. - Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 113: 579-587.
28. MILLS, E. L. & FORNEY, J. L. (1983): Impact on Daphnia pulex of predation by young yellow perch in Oneida Lake, New York. - Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 112: 151-161.
29. MILLS, E. L., SHERMAN, R. & ROBSON, D. S. (1989): Effect of zooplankton abundance and body size on growth of age-0 yellow perch (Perca flavescens) in Oneida Lake, New York, 1975-86. - Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 46: 880-886.
30. MURTAUGH, P. A. (1985): Vertical distribution of zooplankton and population dynamics of Daphnia in a meromictic lake. - Hydrobiologia 123: 47-57.
31. PONTON, D. & MÜLLER, R. (1990): Size of prey ingested by whitefish, Coregonus sp., larvae. Are Coregonus larvae gape-limited predators? - J. Fish Biol. 36: 67-72.
32. SCHAEL, D. M., RUDSTAM, L. G. & POST, J. R. (1991): Gape limitation and prey selection in larval yellow perch (Perca flavescens), freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), and black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus). - Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 48: 1919-1925.
33. SLOBODKIN, L. B. & RICHMAN, S. (1956): The effect of removal of fixed percentages of the newborn on size and variability in populations of Daphnia pulicaria (FORBES). - Limnol. Oceanogr. 1: 209-237.
34. THIEL, R. (1990): Untersuchungen zur Ökologie der Jung-und Kleinfischgemeinschaften in einem Boddengewässer der südlichen Ostsee. - Doctoral thesis, Rostock University, Germany, 147 pp. (unpubl.).
35. TREASURER, J. W. (1992): The predator-prey relationship of perch, Perca fluviatilis, larvae and zooplankton in two Scottish lochs. - Env. Biol. Fish. 35: 63-74.
36. WAHL, C. M., MILLS, E. L., MCFARLAND, W. N. & DEGISI, J. S. (1993): Ontogenetic changes in prey selection and visual acuity of the yellow perch, Perca flavescens. - Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 50: 743-749.
37. WANZENBÖCK, J. (1995): Changing handling times during feeding and consequences for prey size selection of 0+ zooplanktivorous fish. - Oecologia 104: 372-378.
38. WHITESIDE, M. C. (1988): 0+ fish as major factors affecting abundance patterns of littoral zooplankton. - Verh. Int. Verein. Limnol. 23: 1710-1714.
39. WONG, B. & WARD, F. J. (1972): Size selection of Daphnia pulicaria by yellow perch (Perca flavescens) fry in West Blue Lake, Manitoba. - J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can. 29: 1761-1764.
40. ZALEWSKI, M., BREWINSKA-ZARAS, B., FRANKIEWICZ, P. & KALINOWSKI, S. (1990): The potential for biomanipulation using fry communities in a lowland reservoir: concordance between water quality and optimal recruitment. - Hydrobiologia 200/ 201: 549-556.