Succession and collapse of macrozoobenthos in a subtropical hypertrophic lake under restoration (Lake Rodó, Uruguay)

Aquatic Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 455-464

  Clemente, Juan María ^a   Mazzeo, Néstor ^a   Gorga, Javier ^a   Meerhoff, Mariana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Benthic macroinvertebrates; Hypertrophy; Organic matter; Sediment removal; Top down; Urban lake

Indexed keywords

HYPERTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEDIMENT; SUCCESSION; ZOOBENTHOS;

LAKE RODO; MONTEVIDEO [URUGUAY]; SOUTH AMERICA; URUGUAY;

EID: 28444457323     PISSN: 13862588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10452-005-9004-4     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. American Public Health Association 1985. Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater. APHA/AWWA/WPCF, Washington, USA.
2. Bazzanti M., Seminara M. and Baldoni S. 1997. Chironomids (Diptera: Chironomidae) from three temporary ponds of different wet phase duration in central Italy. J. Freshwater Ecol. 12: 89-99.
3. Bendschneider K. and Robinson R.J. 1952. A new spectrophotometric method for the determination of nitrite in sea water. J. Mar. Res. 11: 87-96.
4. Birch S. and McCaskie J. 1999. Shallow urban lakes: a challenge for lake management. Hydrobiologia 395/396: 365-377.
5. Burks R.L., Jeppesen E. and Lodge D.M. 2001. Pelagic prey and benthic predators: impact of odonate predation on Daphnia among complex structure. J. North Am. Benthol. Soc. 20: 683-696.
6. Clerk S., Hall R., Quinlan R. and Smol J.P. 2000. Quantitative inferences of past hypolimnetic anoxia and nutrient levels from a Canadian Precambrian Shield lake. J. Paleolimnol. 23: 319-336.
7. Devine J.A. and Vanni M.J. 2002. Spatial and seasonal variation in nutrient excretion by benthic invertebrates in a eutrophic reservoir. Freshwater Biol. 47: 1107-1121.
8. Fisher S.G. 1990. Recovery processes in lotic ecosystems: limits of succession theory. Environ. Manage. 14: 725-736.
9. Fisher S. and Grimm N. 1991. Streams and disturbance: are cross-ecosystems comparison useful?. In: Cole J., Lowet G. and Findlay S. (eds.), Comparative Analysis of Ecosystems Patterns, Mechanisms and Theories, Springer Verlag, New York, USA, pp. 196-221.
10. Frazier B., Naimo T. and Sandheinrich M. 1996. Temporal and vertical distribution of total ammonia nitrogen and un-ionized ammonia nitrogen in sediment pore water from the upper Mississippi River. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 15: 92-99.
11. Folk R. and Ward W. 1957. Brazos River Bar: a study on the significance of grain size parameters. J. Sediment. Petrol. 27: 3-26.
12. Grall J. and Chauvaud L. 2002. Marine eutrophication and benthos: the need for new approaches and concepts. Global Change Biol. 8: 813-830.
13. Häkanson L. and Jansson M. 1983. Principles of Lake Sedimentology. Springer Verlag, New York, USA.
14. Hall R.I., Leavitt P.R., Quinlan R., Dixit A.S. and Smol J. 1999. Effects of agriculture, urbanization, and climate on water quality in the northern Great Plains. Limnol. Oceanogr. 44: 739-756.
15. Hansen K., Mouridsen S. and Kristensen E. 1998. The impact of Chironomus plumosus larvae on organic matter decay and nutrient (N, P) exchange in shallow lake sediment following a phytoplankton sedimentation. Hydrobiologia 364: 65-74.
16. Harrel R.C. and Smith S.T. 2002. Macrobenthic community structure before, during and after implementation of the Clean Water Act in the Neches River estuary (Texas). Hydrobiologia 474: 213-222.
17. Heip C. 1995. Eutrophication and zoobenthos dynamics. Ophelia 41: 113-136.
18. Hosper H. 1997. Clearing Lakes. An Ecosystem Approach to Restoration and Management of Lakes in the Netherlands. Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management Institute for Inland Water Management and Wastewater Treatment (RIZA), Lelystad, the Netherlands.
19. James F.C. and McCulloch C.E. 1990. Multivariate analysis in ecology and systematics: panacea or Pandora's box?. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 21: 129-166.
20. Jeppesen E. 1998. The Ecology of Shallow Lakes Doctor's dissertation. National Environmental Research Institute, Silkeborg, Denmark.
21. Jones J.I. and Sayer C.D. 2003. Does the fish-invertebrate-periphyton cascade precipitate plant loss in shallow lakes?. Ecology 84: 2155-2167.
22. Kornijów R. and Gulati R.D. 1992. Macrofauna and its ecology in Lake Zwemlust, after biomanipulation I. Bottom fauna. Arch. Hydrobiol. 123: 337-347.
23. Koroleff F. 1970. Direct determination of ammonia in natural water as indophenol-blue. Hydr. Comm. ICES, C. M. 1969/C9.
24. Kruk C., Mazzeo N., Lacerot G. and Reynolds C.S. 2002. Classification schemes for phytoplankton: a local validation of a functional approach to the analysis of species temporal replacement. J. Plankton Res. 24: 901-912.
25. Leppä M., Hämäläinen H. and Karjalainen J. 2003. The response of benthic macroinvertebrates to whole-lake biomanipulation. Hydrobiologia 498: 97-105.
26. Lotter A.F., Birks H.J., Hofmann W. and Marchetto A. 1998. Modern diatom, cladocera, chironomid, and chrysophyte cyst assemblages as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in the Alps. II. Nutrients. J. Paleolimol. 19: 443-463.
27. Mazzeo N., Lacerot G., Kruk C., Scasso F., Rodríguez-Gallego L.,Clemente J. and García J. 2000. Lake Rivera: present situation and strategies for its rehabilitation. Technical Report, Facultad de Ciencias- IMM, Montevideo, Uruguay (in Spanish).
28. Meerhoff M., Mazzeo N., Moss B. and Rodríguez-Gallego L. 2003. The structuring role of free-floating versus submerged plants in a subtropical shallow lake. Aquatic Ecol. 37: 377-391.
29. Milbrink G., Timm T. and Lundberg S. 2002. Indicative profundal oligochaete assemblages in selected small Swedish lakes. Hydrobiologia 468: 53-61.
30. Moss B., Madgwick J. and Phillips G. 1996. A Guide to the Restoration of Nutrient-Enriched Shallow Lakes. Environment Agency (CE), Norwich, UK.
31. Müller R. and Widemann O. 1955. Die Bestimmung des Nitrations in Wasser. Von Wasser 22: 247.
32. Murphy J. and Riley J.P. 1962. A modified single solution method for the determination of phosphate in natural waters. Anal. Chim. Acta 27: 31-36.
33. Nijboer R.C., Wetzel M.J. and Verdonschot P.F. 2004. Diversity and distribution of Tubificidae (Annelida:Oligochaeta) in the Netherlands: an evaluation of twenty years of monitoring data. Hydrobiologia 520: 127-141.
34. Nusch E.A. 1980. Comparison of different methods for chlorophyll and phaeopigments determination. Arch. Hydrobiol. Beih. Ergebn. Limnol. 17: 14-36.
35. Olding D.A., Hellebust J.A. and Douglas M.S. 2000. Phytoplankton community composition in relation to water quality and water-body morphometry in urban lakes, reservoirs and ponds. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 57: 2163-2174.
36. Pearson T.H. and Rosenberg R. 1978. Macrobenthic succession in relation to organic enrichment and pollution of the marine environment. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 16: 229-311.
37. Peralta L., Escobar E., Alcocer J. and Lugo A. 2002. Oligochaetes from six tropical crater lakes in Central Mexico: species composition, density and biomass. Hydrobiologia 467: 109-116.
38. Pokorný J. and Hauser V. 2002. The restoration of fish ponds in agricultural landscapes. Ecol. Engineer. 18: 555-574.
39. Quintans F., Scasso F., Loureiro M. and Yafe A. Diet of Cnesterodon decemmaculatus (Poeciliidae) and Jenynsia multidentata (Anablepidae) in a man-made lake. Submitted.
40. Real M., Rieradevall M. and Prat N. 2000. Chironomus species (Diptera: Chironomidae) in the profundal benthos of Spanish reservoirs and lakes: factors affecting distribution patterns. Freshwater Biol. 43: 1-18.
41. Rodríguez-Gallego L., Mazzeo N., Gorga J., Meerhoff M., Clemente J., Kruk C., Scasso F., Lacerot G., García J. and Quintans F. 2004. Effects of an artificial wetland of free-floating plants on the restoration of a hypertrophic subtropical lakes. Lakes Reserv. Res. Manage. 9: 203-215.
42. Salas H.J. and Martino P. 1991. A simplified phosphorus trophic state model for warm-water tropical lake. Water Res. 25: 341-350.
43. Scasso F., Mazzeo N., Gorga J., Kruk C., Lacerot G., Clemente J., Fabián D. and Bonilla S. 2001. Limnological changes of a subtropical shallow hypertrophic lake during its restoration.Two years of whole-lake experiments. Aquat. Conserv. Mar. Freshwater Ecosys. 11: 31-44.
44. Schindler D.E. and Scheuerell M.D. 2002. Habitat coupling in lake ecosystems. Oikos 98: 177-189.
45. Sparks R.E. and Sandusky M.J. 1981. Identification of Factors Responsible for Decreased Production of Fish Food Organisms in the Illinois and Mississipi Rivers. Illinois Natural History Survey River Research Laboratory, Havana II., USAFinal Report Project 3-291-R.
46. Stumn W. and Morgan J.J. 1996. Aquatic Chemistry. Chemical Equilibria and Rates in Natural Waters. 3rd ed.
47. Vadeboncoeur Y., Jeppesen E., Vander Zanden M.J., Schierup H.-H., Christoffersen K. and Lodge D.M. 2003. From Greenland to green lakes: Cultural eutrophication and the loss of benthic pathways in lakes. Limnol. Oceanogr. 48: 1408-1418.
48. Valderrama J.C. 1981. The simultaneous analysis of total N and P in natural waters. Mar. Chem. 10: 1009-1022.
49. Vanni M.J. 2002. Nutrient cycling by animals in freshwater ecosystems. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 33: 341-370.
50. Wilson D.M., Naimo T.J., Wiener J.G., Anderson R.V., Sandheinrich M.B. and Sparks R.E. 1995. Declining populations of the fingernail clam Musculium transversum in the upper Mississippi River. Hydrobiologia 304: 209-220.
51. Yafe A., Loureiro M., Scasso F. and Quintans F. 2002. Feeding of two cichlidae species (perciformes) in a hypertrophic urban lake. Iheringia, Ser. Zool. 92: 73-79.