Predation by small walleyes on yellow perch: Effects of prey size distribution

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 588-597

  Campbell, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Jones and Stokes   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PISCIVORE; PREDATION; PREY SELECTION; PREY SIZE;

ANIMALIA; PERCA FLAVESCENS; PERCIFORMES; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 0031854976     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1998)127<0588:PBSWOY>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Allan, J. D., and A. S. Flecker. 1988. Prey preference in stoneflies: a comparative analysis of prey vulnerability. Oecologia 76:496-503.
2. Breck, J. E. 1993. Foraging theory and piscivorous fish: are forage fish just big zooplankton? Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 122:902-911.
3. Campbell, E. A. 1989. Laboratory examination of size-selective predation by small walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) on yellow perch (Perca flavescens). Master’s thesis. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
4. Chesson, J. 1989. The effect of alternative prey on the functional response of Notonecta hoffmani. Ecology 70:1227-1235.
5. Daniel, W. W. 1990. Applied nonparametric statistics. PWS-Kent, Boston.
6. DeAngelis, D. L. 1988. Strategies and difficulties of applying models to aquatic populations and food webs. Ecological Modelling 43:57-73.
7. East, P, and P Magnan. 1991. Some factors regulating piscivory of brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, in lakes of the Laurentian Shield. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 48:1735-1743.
8. Forney, J. L. 1974. Interactions between yellow perch abundance, walleye predation, and survival of alternate prey in Oneida Lake, New York. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 103:15-24.
9. Fuiman, L. A. 1989. Vulnerability of Atlantic herring larvae to predation by yearling herring. Marine Ecology Progress Series 51:291-299.
10. Fuiman, L. A. 1994. The interplay of ontogeny and scaling in the interactions of fish larvae and their predators. Journal of Fish Biology 45(Supplement A):55-79.
11. Gillen, A. L., R. A. Stein, and R. F Carline. 1981. Predation by pellet-reared tiger muskellunge on minnows and bluegills in experimental systems. Transactions ofthe American Fisheries Society 110: 197-209.
12. Gotceitas, V., and J. A. Brown. 1993. Risk of predation to fish larvae in the presence of alternative prey: effects of prey size and number. Marine Ecology Progress Series 98:215-222.
13. Hambright, K. D. 1991. Experimental analysis of prey selection by largemouth bass: role of predator mouth width and prey body depth. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 120:500-508.
14. Hargreaves, N. B., and R. J. LeBrasseur. 1986. Size selectivity of coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) preying on juvenile chum (O. keta) salmon. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 43:581-586.
15. Hart, P, and S. F Hamrin. 1988. Pike as a selective predator: effects of prey size, availability, cover and pike jaw dimensions. Oikos 51:220-226.
16. Hartman, K. J., and F J. Margraf. 1992. Effects of different prey and walleye abundances on diet, growth, and consumption of walleye in western Lake Erie. Transactions ofthe American Fisheries Society 121: 245-260.
17. Holling, C. S. 1959. The components of predation as revealed by a study of small mammal predation of the European sawfly. Canadian Entomologist 91: 293-320.
18. Hyslop, E. J. 1980. Stomach content analysis—areview of methods and their application. Journal of Fish Biology 17:411-429.
19. Juanes, F. 1994. What determines prey size selectivity in piscivorous fishes? Belle W. Baruch Library in Marine Science 18:79-100.
20. Juanes, F, and D. O. Conover. 1994. Piscivory and prey size selection in young-of-the-year bluefish: predator preference or size-dependent capture success? Marine Ecology Progress Series 114:59-69.
21. Knight, R. L., F. J. Margraf, and R. F. Carline. 1984. Piscivory by walleyes and yellow perch in western Lake Erie. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 113:677-693.
22. Knight, R. L., and B. Vondracek. 1993. Changes in prey fish populations in western Lake Erie, 1969-1988, as related to walleye, Stizostedion vitreum, predation. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 50:1289-1298.
23. Landeau, L., and J. Terborgh. 1986. Oddity and the “confusion effect” in predation. Animal Behaviour 34:1372-1380.
24. Litvak, M. K., and W. C. Leggett. 1992. Age and size-selective predation on larval fishes: the bigger-is-better hypothesis revisited. Marine Ecology Progress Series 81:13-24.
25. Lyons, J. 1987. Prey choice among piscivorous juvenile walleyes (Stizostedion vitreum). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 44:758-764.
26. Machlis, L., P W. D. Dodd, and J. C. Fentress. 1985. The pooling fallacy: problems arising when individuals contribute more than one observation to the data set. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 68:201-214.
27. Madenjian, C. P, and S. R. Carpenter. 1991. Individual-based model for growth of young-of-the-year walleye: a piece of the recruitment puzzle. Ecological Applications 1:268-279.
28. Murdoch, W. M. 1969. Switching in general predators: experiments on predator specificity and stability of prey populations. Ecological Monographs 39:335-354.
29. Murdoch, W. W., and A. Oaten. 1975. Predation and population stability. Advances in Ecological Research 9:2-132.
30. Nielsen, L. A. 1980. Effect of walleye (Stizostedion vitreum vitreum) predation on juvenile mortality and recruitment of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) in Oneida Lake, New York. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 37:11-19.
31. O’Brien, W. J. 1979. The predator-prey interaction of planktivorous fish and zooplankton. American Scientist 67:572-581.
32. Parsons, J. W. 1971. Selective food preferences of walleyes of the 1959 year class in Lake Erie. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 100:474-485.
33. Pastorok, R. A. 1981. Prey vulnerability and size selection by Chaoborus larvae. Ecology 62:1311-1324.
34. Paszkowski, C. A., and W. M. Tonn. 1994. Effects of prey size, abundance, and population structure on piscivory by yellow perch. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 123:855-865.
35. Pepin, P, T. H. Shears, and Y. de Lafontaine. 1992. Significance of body size to the interaction between a larval fish (Mallotus villosus) and a vertebrate predator (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Marine Ecology Progress Series 81:1-12.
36. Rice, J. A., L. B. Crowder, and K. A. Rose. 1993. Interactions between size-structured predator and prey populations: experimental test and model comparison. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 122:481-491.
37. Sih, A., and R. D. Moore. 1990. Interacting effects of predator and prey behaviour in determining diets. NATO ASI (Advanced Science Institutes) Series, Series G Ecological Sciences 20:771-796.
38. Sokal, R. R., and F. J. Rohlf. 1981. Biometry. Freeman, San Francisco.
39. Swenson, W. A. 1977. Food consumption of walleye (Stizostedion vitreum vitreum) and sauger (S. canadense) in relation to food availability and physical environmental conditions in Lake of the Woods, Minnesota, Shagawa Lake, and western Lake Superior. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 34:1643-1654.
40. Swenson, W. A., and L. L. Smith, Jr. 1973. Gastric digestion, food consumption, feeding periodicity, and food conversion efficiency in walleye (Stizostedion vitreum vitreum). Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 30:1327-1336.
41. Swenson, W. A., and L. L. Smith, Jr. 1976. Influence of food competition, predation, and cannibalism on walleye (Stizostedion vitreum vitreum) and sauger (S. canadense) populations in Lake of the Woods, Minnesota. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 33:1946-1954.
42. Tinbergen, L. 1960. The natural control of insects in pinewoods. I. Factors influencing the intensity of predation by songbirds. Archives Neerlandaises de Zoologie 13:266-336.
43. Tonn, W. M., C. A. Paszkowski, and I. J. Holopainen. 1991. Selective piscivory by perch: effects ofpred-ator size, prey size, and prey species. Internationale Vereinigung fur Theoretische und angewandte Limnologie Verhandlungen 24:2406-2411.
44. Vinyard, G. L., and W. J. O’Brien. 1976. Effects of light and turbidity on the reactive distance of blue-gill (Lepomis macrochirus). Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 33:2845-2849.
45. Ware, D. M. 1972. Predation by rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri): the influence of hunger, prey density, and prey size. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 29:1193-1201.
46. Werner, E. E., and J. Gilliam. 1984. The ontogenetic niche and species interactions in size-structured populations. Annual Review of Ecology and Sys-tematics 15:393-425.
47. Werner, E. E., J. F. Gilliam, D. J. Hall, and G. G. Mittelbach. 1983. An experimental test of the effects of predation risk on habitat use in fish. Ecology 64: 1540-1548.
48. Wilkinson, L. 1990. SYSTAT: the system for statistics. SYSTAT, Evanston, Illinois.
49. Wolfert, D. R. 1966. Food of young-of-the-year walleyes in Lake Erie. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fishery Bulletin 65:489-494.