The potential role of waterbirds in dispersing invertebrates and plants in arid Australia

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 380-392

  Green, A J ^a   Jenkins, K M ^b,c   Bell, D ^b   Morris, P J ^b   Kingsford, R T ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arid zone river; Nomadic waterfowl; Passive dispersal; Propagules; Temporary wetlands

Indexed keywords

ANAS GRACILIS; ANATIDAE; AVES; BRANCHIOPODA; BRYOZOA; CILIOPHORA; CYGNUS ATRATUS; FULICA ATRA; INVERTEBRATA; LEMNA; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO POLYMORPHA; MYRIOPHYLLUM; NEMATODA; NITELLA; OSTRACODA; PELECANUS CONSPICILLATUS; POLYGONUM; POLYGONUM ARENASTRUM; RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS SCELERATUS; ROTIFERA; TYPHA;

EID: 38149052131     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01901.x     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Bartholme S., Samchyshyna L., Santer B. Lampert W. (2005) Subitaneous eggs of freshwater copepods pass through fish guts: survival, hatchability, and potential ecological implications. Limnology and Oceanography, 50, 923 929.
2. Bell D.M. (2000) The Ecology of Coexisting Eleocharis Species. PhD thesis, Botany Department, University of New England, Armidale.
3. Bilton D.T., Freeland J.R. Okamura B. (2001) Dispersal in freshwater invertebrates. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 32, 159 181.
4. Boulton A.J. Brock M.A. (1999) Australian Freshwater Ecology: Processes and Management. Gleneagles Publishing, Adelaide.
5. Boulton A.J., Sheldon F. Jenkins K.M. (2006) Natural disturbance and aquatic invertebrates in desert rivers. In : Ecology of Desert Rivers (Ed. R.T. Kingsford pp. 133 153. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
6. Brock M.A., Capon S.J. Porter J.L. (2006) Disturbance of plant communities dependent on desert rivers. In : Ecology of Desert Rivers (Ed. R.T. Kingsford pp. 100 132. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
7. Brock M.A., Nielsen D.L., Shiel R.J., Green J.D. Langley J.D. (2003) Drought and aquatic community resilience: the role of eggs and seeds in sediments of temporary wetlands. Freshwater Biology, 48, 1207 1218.
8. Cain M.L., Damman H. Muir A. (1998) Seed dispersal and the Holocene migration of woodland herbs. Ecological Monographs, 68, 325 347.
9. Charalambidou I. Santamaría L. (2002) Waterbirds as endozoochorous dispersers of aquatic organisms: a review of experimental evidence. Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology, 23, 165 176.
10. Charalambidou I. Santamaría L. (2005) Field evidence for the potential of waterbirds as dispersers of aquatic organisms. Wetlands, 25, 252 258.
11. Charalambidou I., Santamaría L. Figuerola J. (2003a) How far can the freshwater bryozoan Cristatella mucedo disperse in duck guts? Archiv Fur Hydrobiologie, 157, 547 554.
12. Charalambidou I., Santamaría L. Langevoord O. (2003b) Effect of ingestion by five avian dispersers on the retention time, retrieval and germination of Ruppia maritima seeds. Functional Ecology, 17, 747 753.
13. Charalambidou I., Santamaría L., Jansen C. Nolet B.A. (2005) Digestive plasticity in Mallard ducks modulates dispersal probabilities of aquatic plants and crustaceans. Functional Ecology, 19, 513 519.
14. Cottenie K., Michels E., Nuytten N. De Meester L. (2003) Zooplankton metacommunity structure: regional vs. local processes in highly interconnected ponds. Ecology, 84, 991 1000.
15. Crome F.H.J. (1985) An experimental investigation of filter-feeding on zooplankton by some specialized waterfowl. Australian Journal of Zoology, 33, 849 862.
16. Cross, J.W. (2006) Flowering and dormancy in duckweeds. http://www.mobot.org/jwcross/duckweed/flowering-dormancy.htm (accessed on 17 October 2007).
17. Darwin C. (1859) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Murray, London.
18. DWLBC (2005) Declared plants in South Australia. http://www.dwlbc.sa.gov. au/biodiversity/pests/weeds/plants_list.html (accessed on 17 October 2007).
19. Figuerola J. Green A.J. (2002a) Dispersal of aquatic organisms by waterbirds: a review of past research and priorities for future studies. Freshwater Biology, 47, 483 494.
20. Figuerola J. Green A.J. (2002b) How frequent is external transport of seeds and invertebrate eggs by waterbirds? A study in Donana, SW Spain. Archiv Fur Hydrobiologie, 155, 557 565.
21. Figuerola J., Green A.J. Santamaría L. (2003) Passive internal transport of aquatic organisms by waterfowl in Donana, south-west Spain. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 12, 427 436.
22. Figuerola J., Green A.J., Black K. Okamura B. (2004) Influence of gut morphology on passive transport of freshwater bryozoans by waterfowl in Doñana (southwestern Spain). Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne De Zoologie, 82, 835 840.
23. Frisch D., Green A.J. Figuerola J. (2007) High dispersal capacity of a broad spectrum of aquatic invertebrates via waterbirds. Aquatic Sciences, 69, DOI: 10.1007/s00027-007-0915-0.
24. Green A.J. Figuerola J. (2005) Recent advances in the study of long-distance dispersal of aquatic invertebrates via birds. Diversity & Distributions, 11, 149 156.
25. Green A.J. Sánchez M.I. (2006) Passive internal dispersal of insect larvae by migratory birds. Biology Letters, 2, 55 57.
26. Green A.J., Figuerola J. Sánchez M.I. (2002) Implications of waterbird ecology for the dispersal of aquatic organisms. Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology, 23, 177 189.
27. Higgins S.I., Nathan R. Cain M.L. (2003) Are long-distance dispersal events in plants usually caused by nonstandard means of dispersal? Ecology, 84, 1945 1956.
28. Holt-Mueller M. Van der Valk A.G. (2002) The potential role of ducks in wetland seed dispersal. Wetlands, 22, 170 178.
29. Jenkins K.M. Boulton A.J. (2003) Connectivity in a dryland river: short-term aquatic microinvertebrate recruitment following floodplain inundation. Ecology, 84, 2708 2723.
30. Jenkins K.M. Boulton A.J. (2007) Detecting impacts and setting restoration targets in arid-zone rivers: aquatic microinvertebrates responses to loss of floodplain inundation. Journal of Applied Ecology, 44, 823 832.
31. Jenkins K.M., Boulton A.J. Ryder D.S. (2005) A common parched future? Research and management of Australian arid-zone floodplain wetlands. Hydrobiologia, 552, 57 73.
32. King A.J. (2004) Density and distribution of potential prey for larval fish in the main channel of a floodplain river: pelagic versus epibenthic meiofauna. River Research and Applications, 20, 883 897.
33. Kingsford R.T. Johnson W. (1998) Impact of water diversions on colonially-nesting waterbirds in the Macquarie Marshes of arid Australia. Colonial Waterbirds, 21, 159 170.
34. Kingsford R.T. Norman F.I. (2002) Australian waterbirds - products of the continent's ecology. Emu, 102, 47 69.
35. Kingsford R.T. Thomas R.F. (1995) The Macquarie Marshes in arid Australia and their waterbirds: a 50-year history of decline. Environmental Management, 19, 867 878.
36. Kingsford R.T., Curtin A.L. Porter J. (1999) Water flows on Cooper Creek in arid Australia determine ''boom'' and ''bust'' periods for waterbirds. Biological Conservation, 88, 231 248.
37. Langley J.M., Shiel R.J., Nielsen D.L. Green J.D. (2001) Hatching from the sediment egg-bank, or aerial dispersing? The use of mesocosms in assessing rotifer biodiversity. Hydrobiologia, 446, 203 211.
38. Les D.H., Crawford D.J., Kimball R.T., Moody M.L. Landolt E. (2003) Biogeography of discontinuously distributed hydrophytes: a molecular appraisal of intercontinental disjunctions. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 164, 917 932.
39. Lowry, R. (2006) VassarStats. Fisher Exact Probability Test: 2 × 3. http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/fisher2x3.html (accessed on 8 January 2007).
40. Marchant S. Higgins P.J. (1990) Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. OUP, Melbourne.
41. Mellors W.K. (1975) Selective predation of ephippial Daphnia and the resistance of ephippial eggs to digestion. Ecology, 56, 974 980.
42. Mitchell S.F. Wass R.T. (1995) Food-Consumption and faecal deposition of plant nutrients by black swans (Cygnus atratus Latham) in a shallow New-Zealand lake. Hydrobiologia, 306, 189 197.
43. Nogales M., Quilis V., Medina F.M., Mora J.L. Trigo L.S. (2002) Are predatory birds effective secondary seed dispersers Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 75, 345.
44. Paijmans, K. (1981) The Macquarie Marshes of inland northern New South Wales, Australia. CSIRO Division of Land Use Research.
45. Pollux B.J.A., Santamaría L. Ouborg N.J. (2005) Differences in endozoochorous dispersal between aquatic plant species, with reference to plant population persistence in rivers. Freshwater Biology, 50, 232 242.
46. Porter J.L., Kingsford R.T. Brock M.A. (2007) Seed banks in arid wetlands with contrasting flooding, salinity and turbidity regimes. Plant Ecology, 188, 215 234.
47. Powers K.D., Noble R.E. Chabreck R.H. (1978) Seed distribution by waterfowl in southwestern Louisiana. Journal of Wildlife Management, 42, 598 605.
48. Proctor V.W. (1964) Viability of crustacean eggs recovered from ducks. Ecology, 45, 656 658.
49. Renne I.J., Gauthreaux S.A. Gresham C.A. (2000) Seed dispersal of the Chinese Tallow Tree (Sapium sebiferum (L.) Rosb.) by birds in coastal southern California. American Midland Naturalist, 144, 202 215.
50. Roshier D.A., Klomp N.I. Asmus M. (2006) Movements of a nomadic waterfowl, Grey Teal Anas gracilis, across inland Australia - results from satellite telemetry spanning fifteen months. Ardea, 94, 461 475.
51. Roshier D.A., Robertson A.I. Kingsford R.T. (2002) Responses of waterbirds to flooding in an arid region of Australia and implications for conservation. Biological Conservation, 106, 399 411.
52. Roshier D.A., Robertson A.I., Kingsford R.T. Green D.G. (2001) Continental-scale interactions with temporary resources may explain the paradox of large populations of desert waterbirds in Australia. Landscape Ecology, 16, 547 556.
53. Sánchez M.I., Green A.J. Castellanos E.M. (2006) Internal transport of seeds by migratory waders in the Odiel marshes, south-west Spain: consequences for long-distance dispersal. Journal of Avian Biology, 37, 201 206.
54. Sánchez M.I., Green A.J., Amat F. Castellanos E.M. (2007) Transport of brine shrimps via the digestive system of migratory waders: dispersal probabilities depend on diet and season. Marine Biology, 151, 1407 1415.
55. Sawada M., Viau A.E. Gajewski K. (2003) The biogeography of aquatic macrophytes in North America since the last glacial maximum. Journal of Biogeography, 30, 999 1017.
56. StatSoft (2001) Statistica 6.0. StatSoft, Tulsa, OK.
57. Tracey J.P., Woods R., Roshier D., West P. Saunders G.R. (2004) The role of wild birds in the transmission of avian influenza for Australia: an ecological perspective. Emu, 104, 109 124.
58. USDA-NRCS (2007) The Plants Database. National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA. http://plants.usda.gov (accessed on 11 January 2007).
59. Vandekerkhove J., Declerck S., Brendonck L., Conde-Porcuna J.M., Jeppesen E. De Meester L. (2005) Hatching of cladoceran resting eggs: temperature and photoperiod. Freshwater Biology, 50, 96 104.
60. Welham C.V.J. (1994) Flight speeds of migrating birds: a test of maximum range speed predictions from three aerodynamic equations. Behavioural Ecology, 5, 1 8.
61. Western Australian Herbarium (1998) FloraBase, the Western Australian Flora. Department of Environment and Conservation, Perth, http://florabase.calm. wa.gov.au/ (accessed on 17 October 2007).