Ecosystem significance of crayfishes and stonerollers in a prairie stream: Functional differences between co-occurring omnivores

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 423-441

  Evans White, Michelle A ^a,c   Dodds, Walter K ^a   Whiles, Matt R ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Central stonerollers; Growth rate; Gut contents; Omnivory; Orconectes; Secondary production

Indexed keywords

CRAYFISH; FISH; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; OMNIVORY; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; STOMACH CONTENT; STREAM;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ASTACOIDEA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CAMBARIDAE; CAMPOSTOMA; CAMPOSTOMA ANOMALUM; CHLOROPHYTA; CRUSTACEA; CYPRINIFORMES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA TAXON); INVERTEBRATA; ORCONECTES; ORCONECTES NAIS; ORCONECTES NEGLECTUS;

EID: 0041784598     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1468272     Document Type: Review

References (43)

1. AHLGREN, M. O. 1990. Nutritional significance of facultative detritivory to the juvenile white sucker (Catostomus commersoni). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 47:49-55.
2. AUER, N. A. 1982. Identification of larval fishes of the Great Lakes basin with emphasis on the Lake Michigan drainage. Great Lakes Fishery Commission Special Publication 82-3. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
3. BEETS, J. P. 1979. Population dynamics of the stoneroller minnow, Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque) in streams of a five-county area in upper East Tennessee. MSc Thesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
4. BENKE, A. C. 1996. Secondary production of macroinvertebrates. Pages 557-578 in F. R. Hauer and G. A. Lamberti (editors). Methods in stream ecology. Academic Press, New York.
5. BENKE, A. C. 1998. Production dynamics of riverine chironomids: extremely high biomass turnover rates of primary consumers. Ecology 79:899-910.
6. BENKE, A. C., AND J. B. WALLACE. 1980. Trophic basis of production among net-spinning caddisflies in a southern Appalachian stream. Ecology 61:108-118.
7. BERRILL, M., AND B. CHENOWETH. 1982. The burrowing ability of nonburrowing crayfish. American Midland Naturalist 108:199-201.
8. BURKHEAD, N. M. 1980. The life history of the central stoneroller minnow, Campostoma a. anomalum (Rafinesque), in five streams in east Tennessee. MSc Thesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
9. BURTON, T. M., AND G. E. LIKENS. 1975. Energy flow and nutrient cycling in salamander populations in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Ecology 56:1068-1080.
10. CHARLEBOIS, P. M., AND G. A. LAMBERTI. 1996. Invading crayfish in a Michigan stream: direct and indirect effects on periphyton and macroinvertebrates. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 15:551-563.
11. CONOVER, R. J. 1966. Assimilation of organic matter by zooplankton. Limnology and Oceanography 11:338-345.
12. CREED, R. P. 1994. Direct and indirect effects of crayfish grazing in a stream community. Ecology 75:2091-2103.
13. DODDS, W. K., M. A. EVANS-WHITE, N. M. GERLANC, L. GRAY, D. A. GUDDER, M. J. KEMP, A. L. LOPEZ, D. STAGLIANO, E. A. STRAUSS, J. L. TANK, M. R. WHILES, AND W. M. WOLLHEIM. 2000. Quantification of the nitrogen cycle in a prairie stream. Ecosystems 3:574-589.
14. DODDS, W. K., R. E. HUDSON, A. C. EICHEM, M. A. EVANS-WHITE, D. A. GUDDER, K. FRITZ, AND L. GRAY. 1996. The relationship of floods, drying, flow and light to primary production and producer biomass in a prairie stream. Hydrobiologia 333:151-159.
15. EVANS-WHITE, M. A. 2000. A comparison of the functional role of crayfishes and central stonerollers in a tallgrass prairie stream. MSc Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.
16. EVANS-WHITE, M., W. K. DODDS, L. J. GRAY, AND K. FRITZ. 2001. A comparison of the trophic ecology of the crayfishes (Orconectes nais (Faxon) and Orconectes neglectus (Faxon)) and the central stoneroller minnow (Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque)): omnivory in a tallgrass prairie stream. Hydrobiologia 462:131-144.
17. FOWLER, J. F., AND C. A. TABER. 1985. Food habits and feeding periodicity in two sympatric central stonerollers (Cyprinidae). American Midland Naturalist 113:217-223.
18. GELWICK, F. P., AND W. J. MATTHEWS. 1992. Effects of an algivorous minnow on temperate stream ecosystem properties. Ecology 73:1630-1645.
19. GELWICK, F. P., AND W. J. MATTHEWS. 1997. Effects of algivorous minnows (Campostoma) on spatial and temporal heterogeneity of stream periphyton. Oecologia (Berlin) 112:386-392.
20. GERLANC, N. M. 1999. Effects of breeding pool permanence on developmental rate of western chorus frogs, Pseudacris triseriata, in tallgrass prairie. MSc Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.
21. GURTZ, M. E., G. R. MARZOLF, K. T. KILLINGBECK, D. L. SMITH, AND J. V. MCARTHUR. 1988. Hydrologic and riparian influences on the import and storage of coarse particulate organic matter in a prairie stream. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 45:655-665.
22. HART, D. D. 1992. Community organization in streams: the importance of species interactions, physical factors and chance. Oecologia (Berlin) 91:220-228.
23. HOBBS, H. H. 1981. The crayfishes of Georgia. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 318. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
24. HOBBS, H. H. 1991. Decapoda. Pages 823-858 in J. H. Thorp and A. P. Covich (editors). Ecology and classification of North American freshwater invertebrates. Academic Press, New York.
25. HURYN, A. D., AND J. B. WALLACE. 1987. Production and litter processing by crayfish in an Appalachian mountain stream. Freshwater Biology 18:277-286.
26. JEARLD, A. 1983. Age determination. Pages 301-324 in A. Nielson, D. L. Johnson, and S. S. Lampton (editors). Fisheries techniques. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
27. KRAATZ, W. C. 1923. Study of the food of the minnow Campostoma anomalum. Ohio Journal of Science 23:265-283.
28. LENNON, R. E., AND P. S. PARKER. 1960. The stoneroller, Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque), in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 89:263-270.
29. LOTRICH, V. A. 1973. Growth, production, and community composition of fishes inhabiting a first-, second-, and third-order stream of eastern Kentucky. Ecological Monographs 43:377-397.
30. MATTHEWS, W. J., A. J. STEWART, AND M. E. POWER. 1987. Grazing fishes as components of North American stream ecosystems: effects of Campostoma anomalum. Pages 128-155 in W. J. Matthews and D. C. Heins (editors). Community and evolutionary ecology of North American stream fishes. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma.
31. MOMOT, W. T. 1984. Crayfish production: a reflection of community energetics. Journal of Crustacean Biology 4:35-54.
32. MUNDAHL, N. D., AND M. J. BENTON. 1990. Aspects of the thermal ecology of the rusty crayfish Orconectes rusticus (Girard). Oecologia (Berlin) 82:210-216.
33. PARKYN, S. M., C. F. RABENI, AND K. J. COLLIER. 1997. Effects of crayfish (Paranephrops planifrons: Parastacidae) on in-stream processes and benthic faunas: a density manipulation experiment. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Resources 31:685-692.
34. POUGH, F. H. 1980. The advantages of ectothermy for tetrapods. American Naturalist 115:92-112.
35. POWER, M. E., W. J. MATTHEWS, AND A. J. STEWART. 1985. Grazing minnows, piscivorous bass, and stream algae: dynamics of a strong interaction. Ecology 66:1448-1456.
36. POWER, M. E., A. J. STEWART, AND W. J. MATTHEWS. 1988. Grazer control of algae in an Ozark Mountain stream: effects of short-term exclusion. Ecology 69:1894-1898.
37. REYNOLDS, J. B. 1989. Electrofishing. Pages 147-164 in L. A. Neilson and D. L. Johnson (editors). Fisheries techniques. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
38. RICKER, W. E. 1971. Methods for assessment of fish production in fresh waters. International Biological Programme 7. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, UK.
39. RICKER, W. E. 1975. Computation and interpretation of biological statistics of fish populations. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 191. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
40. SCHMULBACH, J. C. 1953. The life history of the central stoneroller, Campostoma anomalum pullum Agassiz. MSc Thesis, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.
41. TATE, C. M. 1990. Patterns and controls of nitrogen in tallgrass prairie streams. Ecology 80:1395-1404.
42. VAUGHN, C. C., F. P. GELWICK, AND W. J. MATTHEWS. 1993. Effects of algivorous minnows on production of grazing stream invertebrates. Oikos 66:119-128.
43. WHITLEDGE, G. W., AND C. F. RABENI. 1997. Energy sources and ecological role of crayfishes in an Ozark stream: insight from stable isotopes and gut analysis. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54:2555-2563.