Resource matching across habitats is limited by competition at patch scales in an estuarine-opportunist fish

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 913-924

  Polivka, Karl M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; POPULATION DENSITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

COTTIDAE; COTTUS ALEUTICUS; COTTUS ASPER;

EID: 22044435380     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f04-235     Document Type: Article

References (83)

1. Abrahams, M.V. 1986. Patch choice under perceptual constraints: a cause for departures from an ideal free distribution. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 19: 409-415.
2. Allen, D.M., and Barker, D.L. 1990. Interannual variations in larval fish recruitment to estuarine epibenthic habitats. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 63: 113-125.
3. Allen, L.G. 1982. Seasonal abundance, composition, and productivity of the littoral fish assemblage in upper Newport Bay, California. Fish. Bull. US. 80: 769-790.
4. Altinok, I., And Grizzle, J.M. 2001. Effects of brackish water on growth, feed conversion and energy absorption efficiency by juvenile euryhaline and freshwater stenohaline fishes. J. Fish Biol. 59: 1142-1152.
5. Anderson, R.O., and Neumann, R.M. 1996. Length, weight, and associated structural indices. In Fisheries techniques. 2nd ed. Edited by B.R. Murphy and D.W. Willis. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Md. pp. 447-481.
6. Blaber, S.J.M., and Blaber, T.G. 1980. Factors affecting the distribution of juvenile estuarine and inshore fish. J. Fish Biol. 17: 143-162.
7. Brett, J.R. 1979. Environment factors and growth. In Fish physiology. Vol. 8. Bioenergetics and growth. Edited by W.S. Hoar, D.J. Randall, and J.R. Brett. Academic Press, New York. pp. 599-675.
8. Brown, L.R., Matern, S.A., and Moyle, P.B. 1995. Comparative ecology of prickly sculpin, Cottus asper, and coastrange sculpin, C. aleuticus, in the Eel River, California. Environ. Biol. Fishes, 42: 329-343.
9. Caceres, C.W., Fuentes, L.S., and Ojeda, F.P. 1994. Optimal feeding strategy of the temperate herbivorous fish Aplodactylus punctatus: the effects of food availability on digestive and reproductive patterns. Oecologia, 99: 118-123.
10. Connell, J.H. 1961. The influence of interspecific competition and other factors on the distribution of the barnacle Chtamalus stellatus. Ecology, 42: 710-723.
11. Costello, M.J. 1992. Abundance and spatial overlap of gobies (Gobiidae) in Lough Hyne, Ireland. Environ. Biol. Fishes, 33: 239-248.
12. Crecco, V., and Savoy, T. 1987. Effects of climatic and density-dependent factors on intra-annual mortality of larval American shad. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 2: 69-81.
13. Denno, R.F., McClure, M.S., and Ott, J.R. 1995. Interspecific interactions in phytophagous insects - competition re-examined and resurrected. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 40: 297-331.
14. Folt, C.L., Nislow, K.H., and Power, M.E. 1998. Implications of temporal and spatial scale for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) research. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 55(Suppl. 1): 9-21.
15. Frank, K.T., and Leggett, W.C. 1982. Environmental regulation of growth rate, efficiency and swimming performance in larval capelin (Mallotus villosus), and its application to the match/mismatch hypothesis. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 39: 691-699.
16. Frank, K.T., and Leggett, W.C. 1986. Effect of prey abundance and size on the growth and survival of larval fish: an experimental study employing large volume enclosures. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 34: 11-22.
17. Fraser, D.F., and Sise, T.E. 1980. Observations on stream minnows in a patchy environment: a test of a theory of habitat distribution. Ecology, 61: 790-797.
18. Fretwell, S.D. 1972. Populations in a seasonal environment. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
19. Fretwell, S.D., and Lucas, H.L. 1970. On territorial behavior and other factors influencing habitat distribution in birds. Acta Biotheor. 19: 16-36.
20. Garrison, L.P. 2000. Spatial and dietary overlap in the Georges Bank groundfish community. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 57: 1679-1691.
21. Giannico, G.R., and Healey, M.C. 1999. Ideal free distribution theory as a tool to examine juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) habitat choice under different conditions of food abundance and cover. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 56: 2362-2373.
22. Grand, T.C. 2002. Foraging-predation risk trade-offs, habitat selection, and the coexistence of competitors. Am. Nat. 159: 106-112.
23. Grand, T.C., and Dill, L.M. 1997. The energetic equivalence of cover to juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch): ideal free distribution theory applied. Behav. Ecol. 8: 437-447.
24. Grand, T.C., and Dill, L.M. 1999. Predation risk, unequal competitors and the ideal free distribution. Evol. Ecol. Res. 1: 389-409.
25. Gray, C.A., McElligot, D.J., and Chick, R.C. 1996. Intra- and interestuary differences in assemblages of fishes associated with shallow seagrass and bare sand. Mar. Freshw. Res. 47: 723-735.
26. Greene, C.M., and Stamps, J.A. 2001. Habitat selection at low population densities. Ecology, 82: 2091-2100.
27. Hayes, J.P., and Shonkwiler, J.S. 2001. Morphological indicators of body condition: useful or wishful thinking? in Body composition analysis of animals. Edited by J.R. Speakman. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
28. Hill, J., and Grossman, G.D. 1993. An energetic model of microhabitat use for rainbow trout and rosyside dace. Ecology, 74: 685-698.
29. Holt, R.D. 1997. On the evolutionary stability of sink populations. Evol. Ecol. 11: 723-731.
30. Holt, R.D., and Barfield, M. 2001. On the relationship between the ideal-free distribution and the evolution of dispersal. In Dispersal. Edited by J. Clobert, E. Danchin, A. Dhondt, and J. Nichols. Oxford University Press, New York.
31. Horn, M.H., and Allen, L.G. 1976. Number of species and faunal resemblance of marine fishes in California bays and estuaries. Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci. 75: 159-170.
32. Hugie, D.M., and Grand, T.C. 1998. Movement between patches, unequal competitors and the ideal free distribution. Evol. Ecol. 12: 1-19.
33. Ikusemiju, K. 1975. Aspects of the ecology and life history of the sculpin, Cottus aleuticus (Gilbert), in Lake Washington. J. Fish Biol. 7: 235-245.
34. Imsland, A.K., Sunde, L.M., Folkvord, A., and Stefansson, S.O. 1996. The interaction of temperature and fish size on growth of juvenile turbot. J. Fish Biol. 49: 926-940.
35. Jonassen, T.M., Imsland, A.K., and Stefansson, S.O. 1999. The interaction of temperature and fish size on growth of juvenile halibut. J. Fish Biol. 54: 556-572.
36. Kennedy, M., and Gray, R.D. 1993. Can ecological theory predict the distribution of foraging animals? A critical analysis of experiments on the ideal free distribution. Oikos, 68: 158-166.
37. Kneib, R.T. 1984. Patterns in the utilization of the intertidal salt marsh by larvae and juveniles of Fundulus heteroclitus (Linnaeus) and Fundulus luciae (Baird). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 83: 41-51.
38. Kneib, R.T. 1993. Growth and mortality in successive cohorts of fish larvae within an estuarine nursery. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 94: 115-127.
39. Lee, D.S., Gilbert, C.R., Hocutt, C.H., Jenkins, R.E., McAllister, D.E., and Stauffer, J.R., Jr. 1980. Atlas of North American freshwater fishes. North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, N.C.
40. Lenanton, R.C.J., and Potter, I.C. 1987. Contribution of estuaries to commercial fisheries in temperate Western Australia and the concept of estuarine dependence. Estuaries, 10: 28-35.
41. Limburg, K.E., Pace, M.L., and Fischer, D. 1997. Consumption, selectivity, and use of zooplankton by larval striped bass and white perch in a seasonally pulsed estuary. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 126: 607-621.
42. MacArthur, R.H., and Pianka, E. 1966. On optimal use of a patchy environment. Am. Nat. 100: 603-609.
43. Matthews, W.J. 1987. Physicochemical tolerance and selectivity of stream fishes as related to their geographic ranges and local distributions. In Community and evolutionary ecology of North American stream fishes. Edited by W.J. Matthews and D.C. Heins. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Okla.
44. McLarney, W.O. 1968. Spawning habits and morphological variation in the coastrange sculpin, Cottus aleuticus, and the prickly sculpin, Cottus asper. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 97: 46-48.
45. Milinski, M. 1979. An evolutionarily stable feeding strategy in sticklebacks. Z. Tierpsychol. 51: 36-40.
46. Morris, D.W. 1987a. Spatial scale and the cost of density-dependent habitat selection. Evol. Ecol. 1: 379-388.
47. Morris, D.W. 1987b. Tests of density dependent habitat selection in a patchy environment. Ecol. Monogr. 57: 269-281.
48. Morris, D.W. 2003. Toward an ecological synthesis: a case for habitat selection. Oecologia, 136: 1-13.
49. Moyle, P.B. 1976. Inland fishes of California. University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif.
50. Nislow, K.H., Folt, C., and Seandel, M. 1998. Food and foraging behavior in relation to microhabitat use and survival of age-0 Atlantic salmon. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 55: 116-127.
51. Northcote, T.G. 1997. Why sea-run? An exploration into the migratory/residency spectrum of coastal cutthroat trout. In Searun cutthroat trout: biology, management, and future conservation. Edited by J.D. Hall, PA. Bisson, and R.E. Gresswell. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Md.
52. Oksanen, T., Power, M.E., and Oksanen, L. 1995. Ideal free habitat selection and consumer-resource dynamics. Am. Nat. 146: 565-585.
53. Peckarsky, B.L., and Cowan, C.A. 1995. Microhabitat and activity periodicity of predatory stoneflies and their mayfly prey in a western Colorado stream. Oikos, 74: 513-521.
54. Persson, L., and Greenberg, L.A. 1990. Optimal foraging and habitat shift in perch (Perca fluviatilis) in a resource gradient. Ecology, 71: 1699-1713.
55. Polivka, K.M. 2002. Foraging theory, habitat selection and the ecology of a guild of benthic estuarine fishes. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
56. Power, M.E. 1984. Habitat quality and the distribution of algae-grazing catfish in a Panamanian stream. J. Anim. Ecol. 53: 357-374.
57. Pulliam, H.R. 1988. Sources, sinks and population regulation. Am. Nat. 132: 652-661.
58. Pulliam, H.R. 1996. Sources and sinks: empirical evidence and population consequences. In Population dynamics in ecological space and time. Edited by O.E. Rhodes, Jr., R.K. Chesser, and M.H. Smith. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. pp. 45-70.
59. Pulliam, H.R., and Danielson, B.J. 1991. Sources, sinks and habitat selection: a landscape perspective on population dynamics. Am. Nat. 137: S50-S66.
60. Ranta, E., Lundberg, P., and Viejo, K. 1999. Resource matching with limited knowledge. Oikos, 86: 383-385.
61. Resetarits, W.J. 1997. Interspecific competition and qualitative competitive asymmetry between two benthic stream fish. Oikos, 78: 429-439.
62. Ringstad, N.R., and Narver, D.W. 1973. Some aspects of the ecology of two species of sculpin (Cottus) in a west coast Vancouver Island stream. Fish. Res. Board Can. Manuscr. Rep. No. 1267.
63. Rogers, S.O., Targett, T.E., and Van Sant, S.B. 1984. Fish-nursery use in Georgia salt-marsh estuaries: the influence of springtime freshwater conditions. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 113: 595-606.
64. Rosenzweig, M.L. 1987. Habitat selection as a source of biological diversity. Evol. Ecol. 1: 315-330.
65. Ross, S.T. 1986. Resource partitioning in fish assemblages: a review of field studies. Copeia, 1986: 352-388.
66. Schelske, C.L., and Odum, E.P. 1962. Mechanisms maintaining high productivity in Georgia estuaries. Proc. Gulf Caribb. Fish. Inst. 14: 75-80.
67. Schmidt, K.A., Earnhardt, J.M., Brown, J.S., and Holt, R.D. 2000. Habitat selection under temporal heterogeneity: exorcizing the ghost of competition past. Ecology, 81: 2622-2630.
68. Sogard, S.M. 1992. Variability in growth rates of juvenile fishes in different estuarine habitats. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 85: 35-53.
69. Spencer, H., Kennedy, M., and Gray, R.D. 1995. Patch choice with competitive asymmetries and perceptual limits: the importance of history. Anim. Behav. 50(Pt. III): 497-508.
70. Spencer, H., Kennedy, M., and Gray, R.D. 1996. Perceptual constraints on optimal foraging: the effects of variation among foragers. Evol. Ecol. 10: 331-339.
71. Tregenza, T., and Thompson, D.J. 1998. Unequal competitor ideal free distribution in fish? Evol. Ecol. 12: 655-666.
72. Tyler, J.A., and Gilliam, J.F. 1995. Ideal free distributions of stream fish: a model and test with minnows, Rhinichthys atratulus. Ecology, 76: 580-592.
73. Tyler, J.A., and Hargrove, W.W. 1997. Predicting spatial distribution of foragers over large resource landscapes: a modeling analysis of the ideal free distribution. Oikos, 79: 388-393.
74. Underwood, G.J.C., and Kromkamp, J. 1999. Primary production by phytoplankton and microphytobenthos in estuaries. In Estuaries. Edited by D.B. Nedwell and D.G. Raffaelli. Adv. Ecol. Res. Vol. 29. Academic Press, San Diego, Calif.
75. Valesini, F.J., Potter, I.C., Platell, M.E., and Hyndes, G.A. 1997. Ichthyofaunas of a temperate estuary and adjacent marine embayment: implications regarding choice of nursery area and influence of environmental changes. Mar. Biol. 128: 317-328.
76. Van Horne, B. 1983. Density as a misleading indicator of habitat quality. J. Wildl. Manag. 47: 893-901.
77. Weinstein, M.P. 1979. Shallow marsh habitats as primary nurseries for fishes and shellfish, Cape Fear River, North Carolina. Fish. Bull. US. 77: 339-357.
78. Weisburg, S.B. 1986. Competition and coexistence among four estuarine species of Fundulus. Am. Zool. 26: 249-257.
79. Werner, E.E. 1977. Species packing and niche complementarity in 3 sunfishes. Am. Nat. 111: 553-578.
80. Werner, E.E., and Gilliam, J.F. 1984. The ontogenetic niche and species interactions in size-structured populations. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 15: 393-425.
81. White, J.L., and Harvey, B.C. 1999. Habitat separation of prickly sculpin, Cottus asper, and coastrange sculpin, Cottus aleuticus, in the mainstem Smith River, northwestern California. Copeia, 1999: 371-375.
82. Yanez-Arancibia, A., and Lara-Dominguez, A.L. 1988. Ecology of three catfish species in a tropical coastal ecosystem (southern Gulf of Mexico). Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 49: 215-230.
83. Yoklavich, M.M., Cailliet, G.M., Barry, J.P., Ambrose, D.A., and Antrim, B.S. 1991. Temporal and spatial patterns in abundance and diversity of fish assemblages in Elkhorn Slough, California. Estuaries, 14: 465-480.