Separating the effects of intra- and interspecific age-structured interactions in an experimental fish assemblage

Oecologia

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 143-152

  Taylor, Ryan C ^a,c   Trexler, Joel C ^a   Loftus, William F ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age structure; Cannibalism; Competition; Food web; Predation

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MESOCOSM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035031864     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420000575     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Abrams PA, Rowe L (1996) The effects of predation on the age and size of maturity. Evolution 50:1052-1061
2. Belk MC, Lydeard C (1994) Effect of Gambusia holbrooki on a similar-sized synoptic Poeciliid, Heterandria formosa: competitor or predator? Copeia 1994:296-302
3. Bence JR, Murdoch WW (1986) Prey size selection by the mosquitofish: relation to optimal diet theory. Ecology 67:324-336
4. Bender EA, Chase TJ, Gilpin ME (1984) Perturbation experiments in community ecology: theory and practice. Ecology 65:1-13
5. Carpenter SR (1996) Microcosm experiments have limited relevance for community and ecosystem ecology. Ecology 7:677-680
6. Connell JH (1983) On the prevalence and relative importance of interspecific competition: evidence from field experiments. Am Nat 122:661-696
7. Fennema RJ, Neidrauer CJ, Johnson RA, MacVicar TK, Perkins WA (1994) A computer model to simulate natural Everglades hydrology. In: Davis SM, Ogden JC (eds) Everglades: the ecosystem and its restoration. St. Lucie Press, Delray Beach, Fla., pp 249-289
8. Fienberg SE (1980) The analysis of cross-classified categorical data, 2nd edn. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
9. Geddes P (1999) Omnivory and periphyton mats: uncoupling and quantifying consumer effects in the Florida Everglades. M.S. Thesis, Florida International University
10. Goodsell JA, Kats LB (1999) Effect of introduced mosquitofish on Pacific treefrogs and the role of alternative prey. Conserv Biol 13:921-924
11. Haake PW, Dean JM (1983) Age and growth of four Everglades fishes using otolith techniques. Everglades National Park SFRC-83/03
12. Harris PM (1995) Are autecologically similar species also functionally similar? A test in pond communities. Ecology 76:544-552
13. Holt RD, Polis GA (1997) A theoretical framework for intraguild predation. Am Nat 149:745-764
14. Hulbert SH, Mulla SH (1981) Impacts of mosquitorfish (Gambusia affinis) predation on plankton communities. Hydrobiologica 83:125-151
15. Hulbert SH, Zedler J, Fairbanks D (1972) Ecosystems alteration by mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) predation. Science 175: 639-641
16. Ives AR, Carpenter SR, Dennis B (1999) Community interaction webs and zooplankton responses to planktivory manipulations. Ecology 80:1405-1421
17. Jordan F, McCreary AC (1996) Effects of an odonate predator and habitat complexity on survival of the flagfish Jordanella floridae. Wetlands 16:583-586
18. Kushlan JA (1976) Environmental stability and fish community diversity. Ecology 57:821-825
19. Kushlan JA (1980) Population fluctuations of Everglades fishes. Copeia 1980:870-874
20. Loftus WF, Eklund AM (1994) Long-term dynamics of an Everglades small-fish assemblage. In: Davis SM, Ogden JC (eds) Everglades: the ecosystem and its restoration. St. Lucie Press, Delray Beach, Fla., pp 461-483
21. Loftus WF, Kushlan JA (1987) Freshwater fishes of southern florida. Bull Florida State Mus Biol Sci 31:147-344
22. McCormick PV, Shuford RBE III, Backus JG, Kennedy WC (1998) Spatial and seasonal patterns of periphyton biomass and productivity in the northern Everglades, Florida, U.S.A. Hydrobiologia 362:185-208
23. Meffe GK (1985) Predation and species replacement in American southwestern fishes: a case study. Southwest Nat 30:173-187
24. Meffe GK, Hendrickson DA, Minkley WL, Rinne JN (1983) Factors resulting in decline of the endangered Sonoran topminnow [newln] (Atheriniformes: Poeciliidae) in the United States. Biol Conserv 25:135-159
25. Nesbit DH, Meffe GK (1993) Cannibalism frequencies in wild populations of the eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki: Poeciliidae) in South Carolina. Copeia 1993:867-870
26. Persson L (1988) Asymmetries in competitive and predaceous interactions in fish populations. In Ebenman B, Perssons L (eds) Size structured populations: ecology and evolution. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 203-218
27. Petraitis PS, Dunham AE, Niewiarowski PH (1996) Inferring multiple causality: the limitations of path analysis. Funct Ecol 10: 421-431
28. Polis GA (1981) The evolution and dynamics of intraspecific predation. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 12:225-251
29. Polis GA, Myers CA, Holt RD (1989) The ecology and evolution of intraguild predation: potential competitors that eat each other. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 20:297-330
30. Reznick DN, Endler JA (1982) The impact of predation on life history evolution in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Evolution 36:160-177
31. Reznick DN, Butler MJ IV, Rodd HF (1996) Life history evolution in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). VI. differential mortality as a mechanism for natural selection. Evolution 50:1651-1660
32. Richardson JTE (1996) Measures of effect size. Behav Res Methods Instrum Comp 28:12-22
33. Schaefer JF, Heulett ST, Farrell TM (1994) Interactions between two poeciliid fishes (Gambusia holbrooki and Heterandria formosa) and their prey in a Florida marsh. Copeia 1994: 516-520
34. Sih A, Crowley P, McPeek M, Petranka J, Strohmeier K (1985) Predation, competition, and prey communities: a review of field experiments. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 16:296-311
35. Snelson FF Jr (1989) Social and environmental control of life history traits in poeciliid fishes. In: Meffe GK, Snelson FF Jr (eds) Ecology & evolution of livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae). Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., pp 149-161
36. Sokal RR, Rohlf FJ (1981) Biometry, 2nd edn. Freeman, New York
37. Strauss SY (1991) Direct, indirect, and cumulative effects of three native herbivores on a shared host plant. Ecology 72:543-558
38. Trexler JC, Richardson L, Spitze K (1996) Effects of Hurricane Andrew on the structure and function of Everglades aquatic communities. Final Report to Everglades National Park
39. Trexler JC, Loftus WF, Jordan CF, Kandl KL, Bass OL (2000) Ecological scale and its implications for freshwater fishes in the Florida Everglades. In: Porter JW, Porter KG (eds) Linkages between ecosystems in the South Florida hydroscape. CRC, Boca Raton, Fla.(in press)
40. Turner A, Trexler JC, Jordan F, Slack SJ, Geddes P, Loftus W (1999) Conservation of an ecological feature of the Florida Everglades: patterns of standing crops. Conserv Biol 13:898-911
41. Vanni MJ (1997) Nutrient recycling and herbivory as mechanisms in the "top-down" effect of fish on algae in lakes. Ecology 78:21-40
42. Wilbur HM (1988) Interactions between growing predators and growing prey. In: Ebenman B, Perssons L (eds) Size structured populations: ecology and evolution. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 157-172
43. Wilbur HM (1997) Experimental ecology of food webs: complex systems in temporary ponds. Ecology 78:2279-2302
44. Winemiller KO, Polis GA (1996) Food webs: what can they tell us about the world? In: Polis GA, Winemiller KO (eds) Food webs: integration of patterns and dynamics. Chapman & Hall, New York, pp 1-22
45. Winkleman DL (1996) Reproduction under predatory threat: trade-offs between nest guarding and predator avoidance in male dollar sunfish (Lepomis marginatus). Copeia 1996:845-851
46. Winkleman DL, Aho KM (1993) Direct and indirect effects of predation on mosquitofish behavior and survival. Oecologia 96:300-303
47. Wootton JT (1994) Predicting direct and indirect effects: an integrated approach using experiments and path analysis. Ecology 75:151-165
48. Zar JH (1999) Biostatistical analysis, 4th edn. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J.