Spawning chronology, nest site selection and nest success of smallmouth bass during benign streamflow conditions

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 60-78

  Dauwalter, Daniel C ^a,b   Fisher, William L ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NEST SITE; NESTING; PERCIFORM; SITE SELECTION; STREAMFLOW;

BARON FORK CREEK; NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

LEPOMIS MEGALOTIS; MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU; PERCIFORMES;

EID: 34547735438     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2007)158[60:SCNSSA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. BAIN, M. B. 1999. Substrate, p. 95-103. In: M. B. Bain and N. J. Stevenson (eds.). Aquatic habitat assessment: common methods. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
2. BALKENBUSH, P. E. AND W. L. FISHER. 2001. Population characteristics and management of black bass in eastern Oklahoma streams. Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, 53:130-143.
3. BOVEE, K. D., T. J. NEWCOMB AND T. G. COON. 1994. Relations between habitat variability and population dynamics of bass in the Huron River, Michigan. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Biological Survey, Biological Report 21, Washington, D.C. 63 p.
4. BURNHAM, K. P. AND D. R. ANDERSON. 2002. Model selection and multimodel inference: a practical information - theoretic approach, Second ed. Springer-Verlag, New York. 488 p.
5. CLEARY, R. E. 1956. Observations on factors affecting smallmoufh bass production in Iowa. J. Wildl. Manage., 20:353-359.
6. DAUWALTER, D. C., W. L. FISHER AND R C. BELT. 2006. Mapping stream habitats with a global positioning system: accuracy, precision, and comparison with traditional methods. Environ. Manag., 37:271-280.
7. DEVRIES, D. R. AND R. V. FRIE. 1996. Determination of age and growth, p. 483-512. In: B. R. Murphy and D. W. Willis (eds.). Fisheries techniques. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
8. GRAHAM, R. J. AND D. J. ORTH. 1986. Effects of temperature and streamflow on time and duration of spawning by smallmouth bass. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc., 115:693-702.
9. HAWKINS, C. P., J. L. KERSHNER, P. A. BISSON, M. D. BRYANT, L. M. DECKER, S. V. GREGORY, D. A. MCCULLOUGH, C. K. OVERTON, G. H. REEVES, R. J. STEEDMAN AND M. K. YOUNG. 1993. A hierarchical approach to classifying stream habitat features. Fisheries, 18(6):3-12.
10. HOSMER, D. W. AND S. LEMESHOW. 2000. Applied logistic regression, Second ed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. 375 p.
11. KNIGHTON, D. 1998. Fluvial forms and processes: a new perspective. Oxford University Press, Inc., New York. 383 p.
12. KNOTEK, W. L. AND D. J. ORTH. 1998. Survival for specific life intervals of smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieu, during parental care. Env. Biol. Fish., 51:285-296.
13. LUKAS, J. A. AND D. J. ORTH. 1995. Factors affecting nesting success of smallmoufh bass in a regulated Virginia stream. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc., 124:726-735.
14. MACCRIMMON, H. R. AND W. H. ROBBINS. 1975. Distribution of the black basses in North America, p. 56-66. In: H. Clepper (ed.). Black bass: biology and management. Sport Fishing Institute, Washington D.C.
15. MANLY, B., L. MCDONALD AND D. THOMAS. 1993. Resource selection by animals: statistical design and analysis for field studies. Chapman & Hall, London. 177 p.
16. OMERNIK, J. M. 1987. Ecoregions of the conterminous United States. Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers, 77:118-125.
17. PETERSON, J. T. AND C. F. RABENI. 2001. The relation of fish assemblages to channel units in an Ozark stream. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc., 130:911-926.
18. PFLIEGER, W. L. 1966. Reproduction of the smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui) in a small Ozark stream. Am. Midl. Nat., 76:411-418.
19. _. 1975. Reproduction and survival of the smallmouth bass in Courtois Creek, p. 231-239. In: R. H. Stroud and H. Clepper (eds.). Black bass biology and management. Sport Fishing Institute, Washington, D.C.
20. RAFFETTO, N. S., J. R. BAYLIS AND S. L. SERNS. 1990. Complete estimates of reproductive success in a closed population of smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui). Ecology, 71:1523-1535.
21. REYNOLDS, C. R. AND C. J. O'BARA. 1991. Reproductive ecology and spawning habitat of smallmouth bass in two small streams of the Tennessee River system, p. 61-65. In: D. C. Jackson (ed.). The first international smallmouth bass symposium. Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Mississippi State.
22. RIDGWAY, M. S., G. P. GOFF AND M. H. A. KEENLEYSIDE. 1989. Courtship and spawning behavior in smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui). Am. Midl. Nat., 122:209-213.
23. _, B. J. SHUTER AND E. E. POST. 1991. The relative influence of body size and territorial behaviour on nesting asynchrony in male smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieui (Pisces: Centrarchidae). J. Anim. Ecol., 60:665-681.
24. ROSGEN, D. L. 1994. A classification of natural rivers. Catena, 22:169-199.
25. SHAFFER, T. L. 2004. A unified approach to analyzing nest success. Auk, 121:526-540.
26. SHUTER, B. J., J. A. MACLEAN, F. E. J. FRY AND H. A. REGIER. 1980. Stochastic simulation of temperature effects on first-year survival of smallmouth bass. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc., 109:1-34.
27. SMITH, S. M., J. S. ODENKIRK AND S. J. REESER. 2005. Smallmouth bass recruitment variability and its relation to stream discharge in three Virginia rivers. N. Am. J. Fish. Manage., 25:1112-1121.
28. STARK, W. J. AND A. A. ECHELLE. 1998. Genetic structure and systematics of smallmouth bass, with emphasis on Interior Highlands populations. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc., 127:393-416.
29. STEINHART, G. B., M. E. SANDRENE, S. WEAVER, R. A. STEIN AND E. A. MARSCHALL. 2005. Increased parental care cost for nest-guarding fish in a lake with hyperabundant nest predators. Behav. Ecol., 16:427-434.
30. SURBER, E. W. 1939. A comparison of four eastern smallmouth bass streams. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc., 68:322-335.
31. WALSH, M. G. AND D. L. WINKELMAN. 2004. Fish assemblage structure in an Oklahoma Ozark stream before and after rainbow trout introduction. Amer. Fish. Soc. Symp., 44:417-430.
32. WIEGMANN, D. D. AND J. R. BAYLIS. 1995. Male body size and paternal behaviour in smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieui (Pisces: Centrarchidae). Anim. Behav., 50:1543-1555.
33. _ AND M. H. HOFF. 1997. Male fitness, body size and timing of reproduction in smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieui. Ecology, 78:111-128.
34. WINEMILLER, K. O. AND D. H. TAYLOR. 1982. Smallmouth bass nesting behavior and nest site selection in a small Ohio stream. Ohio Acad. Sci., 82:266-273.
35. WOODS, A. J., J. M. OMERNIK, D. R. BUTLER, J. G. FORD, J. E. HENLEY, B. W. HOAGLAND, D. S. ARNDT AND B. C. MORAN. 2005. Ecoregions of Oklahoma (color poster with map, descriptive text, summary tables, and photographs). U.S. Geological Survey, (map scale 1:1,250,000), Reston, Virginia.
36. WRENN, W. B. 1984. Smallmouth bass reproduction in elevated temperature regimes at the species' native southern limit. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc., 113:295-303.