Salinity mediates the competitive interactions between invasive mosquitofish and an endangered fish

Oecologia

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 205-213

  Alcaraz, Carles ^a   Bisazza, Angelo ^b   García Berthou, Emili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agonistic behaviour; Aphanius fasciatus; Condition specific competition; Gambusia holbrooki; Interference competition

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

AGGRESSION; AMPHIBIAN; CYPRINID; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PREY CAPTURE; REFUGE; SALINITY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ITALY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD SUPPLY; ITALY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEAWATER;

AMPHIBIA; APHANIUS FASCIATUS; GAMBUSIA AFFINIS; GAMBUSIA HOLBROOKI;

EID: 38649126560     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0899-4     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Alcaraz C, García-Berthou E (2007) Life history variation of an invasive fish (Gambusia holbrooki) along a salinity gradient. Biol Conserv 139:83-92. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.006
2. Arthington AH, Lloyd LN (1989) Introduced poeciliids in Australia and New Zealand. In: Meffe GK, Snelson Jr FF (eds) Ecology and evolution of livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae). Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., pp 333-348
3. Bagiella E, Sloan RP, Heitjan DF (2000) Mixed-effects models in psychophysiology. Psychophysiology 37:13-20. doi: 10.1017/S0048577200980648
4. Banarescu P (1990). Zoogeography of freshwaters, vol 1. General distribution and dispersal of freshwater animals. AULA, Wiesbaden
5. PG Bianco 1995 Mediterranean endemic freshwater fishes of Italy Biol Conserv 72 159 170 10.1016/0006-3207(94)00078-5 Bianco PG (1995) Mediterranean endemic freshwater fishes of Italy. Biol Conserv 72:159-170. doi: 10.1016/0006-3207(94)00078-5
6. R Brooker Z Kikvidze FI Pugnaire RM Callaway P Choler CJ Lortie R Michalet 2005 The importance of importance Oikos 109 63 70 10.1111/j.0030-1299. 2005.13557.x Brooker R, Kikvidze Z, Pugnaire FI, Callaway RM, Choler P, Lortie CJ, Michalet R (2005) The importance of importance. Oikos 109:63-70. doi: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13557.x
7. Caiola N, de Sostoa A (2005) Possible reasons for the decline of two native toothcarps in the Iberian Peninsula: evidence of competition with the introduced Eastern mosquitofish. J Appl Ichthyol 21:358-363. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0426.2005.00684.x
8. Chervinski J (1983) Salinity tolerance of the mosquito fish, Gambusia affinis (Baird and Girard). J Fish Biol 22:9-11. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1983. tb04720.x
9. Connell JH (1961) The influence of interspecific competition and other factors on the distribution of the barnacle Chthamalus stellatus. Ecology 42:710-723
10. Courtenay WR Jr, Meffe GK (1989) Small fishes in strange places: a review of introduced poeciliids. In: Meffe GK, Snelson Jr FF (eds) Ecology and evolution of livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae). Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., pp 319-331
11. Cowardin LM (1979) Classification of wetlands and deepwater habitats of the United States. Fish and Wildlife Service, US Department of the Interior
12. Crain CM, Silliman BR, Bertness S, Bertness MD (2004) Physical and biotic drivers of plant distribution across estuarine salinity gradients. Ecology 85:2539-2549
13. de Staso III J, Rahel FJ (1994) Influence of water temperature on interactions between juvenile Colorado river cutthroat trout and brook trout in a laboratory stream. Trans Am Fish Soc 123:289-297
14. Doadrio I (2002) Atlas y libro rojo de los peces continentales de España. Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Madrid
15. Dukes JS, Mooney HA (2004) Disruption of ecosystem processes in western North America by invasive species. Rev Chil Hist Nat 77:411-437
16. Dunson WA, Travis J (1991) The role of abiotic factors in community organization. Am Nat 138:1067-1091. doi: 10.1086/285270
17. Dunson WA, Travis J (1994) Patterns in the evolution of physiological specialization in salt-marsh animals. Estuaries 17:102-110
18. Fernández-Delgado C, Hernando-Casal JA, Herrera M, Bellido M (1988) Age, growth and reproduction of Aphanius iberus (Cuv. and Val., 1846) in the lower reaches of the Guadalquivir river (south-west Spain). Freshwater Biol 20:227-234. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.1988.tb00446.x
19. García-Berthou E, Moreno-Amich R (1992) Age and growth of an Iberian cyprinodont, Aphanius iberus (Cuv. and Val.), in its most northerly population. J Fish Biol 40:929-937. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1992.tb02638.x
20. García-Berthou E, Alcaraz C, Pou-Rovira Q, Zamora L, Coenders G, Feo C (2005) Introduction pathways and establishment rates of invasive aquatic species in Europe. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 62:453-463. doi: 10.1139/f05-017
21. Hamer AJ, Lane SJ, Mahony MJ (2002) The role of introduced mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) in excluding the native green and golden bell frog (Litoria aurea) from original habitats in south-eastern Australia. Oecologia 132:445-452. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-0968-7
22. Haney DC, Nordlie FG, Binell J (1999) Influence of simulated tidal changes in ambient salinity on routine metabolic rate in Cyprinodon variegatus. Copeia 1999:509-514
23. Holway DA, Suarez AV (1999) Animal behavior: an essential component of invasion biology. Trends Ecol Evol 14:328-330. doi: 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01636- 5
24. Inouye BD (2001) Response surface experimental designs for investigating interspecific competition. Ecology 82:2696-2706
25. Kats LB, Ferrer RP (2003) Alien predators and amphibian declines: review of two decades of science and the transition to conservation. Divers Distrib 9:99-110. doi: 10.1046/j.1472-4642.2003.00013.x
26. Keivany Y, Soofiani NM (2004) Contribution to the biology of Zagros tooth-carp, Aphanius vladykovi (Cyprinodontidae) in central Iran. Environ Biol Fishes 71:165-169. doi: 10.1007/s10641-004-0106-y
27. Krumholz LA (1948) Reproduction in the western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis affinis, and its use in mosquito control. Ecol Monogr 18:1-43
28. La Peyre MKG, Grace JB, Hahn E, Mendelssohn IA (2001) The importance of competition in regulating plant species abundance along a salinity gradient. Ecology 82:62-69
29. Leonardos I, Sinis A (1998) Reproductive strategy of Aphanius fasciatus Nardo, 1827 (Pisces: Cyprinodontidae) in the Mesolongi and Etolikon lagoons (W. Greece). Fish Res 35:171-181. doi: 10.1016/S0165-7836(98)00082-4
30. Leonardos I, Sinis A (1999) Population age and sex structure of Aphanius fasciatus (Nardo, 1827) (Pisces: Cyprinodontidae) in the Mesolongi and Etolikon lagoons (W. Greece). Fish Res 40:227-235. doi: 10.1016/S0165-7836(98)00231-8
31. Lortie CJ, Callaway RM (2006) Re-analysis of meta-analysis: support for the stress-gradient hypothesis. J Ecol 94:7-16. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005. 01066.x
32. Maestre FT, Valladares F, Reynolds JF (2006) The stress-gradient hypothesis does not fit all relationships between plant-plant interactions and abiotic stress: further insights from arid environments. J Ecol 94:17-22. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01089.x
33. Mills MD, Rader RB, Belk MC (2004) Complex interactions between native and invasive fish: the simultaneous effects of multiple negative interactions. Oecologia 141:713-721. doi: 10.1007/s00442-004-1695-z
34. Myers GS (1949). Salt-tolerance of fresh-water fish groups in relation to zoogeographical problems. Bijdr Dierkd 28:315-322
35. Nordlie FG (1987) Salinity tolerance and osmotic regulation in the diamond killifish, Adinia xenica. Environ Biol Fishes 20:229-232. doi: 10.1007/BF00004957
36. Nordlie FG, Mirandi A (1996) Salinity relationships in a freshwater population of eastern mosquitofish. J Fish Biol 49:1226-1232. doi: 10.1006/jfbi.1996.0249
37. Nordlie FG, Haney DC, Walsh SJ (1992) Comparisons of salinity tolerances and osmotic regulatory capabilities in populations of sailfin molly (Poecilia latipinna) from brackish and fresh waters. Copeia 1992:741-746
38. Oltra R, Todolí R (2000) Reproduction of the endangered killifish Aphanius iberus at different salinities. Environ Biol Fish 57:113-115. doi: 10.1023/A:1007579527064
39. Pilastro A, Benetton S, Bisazza A (2003) Female aggregation and male competition reduce costs of sexual harassment in the mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki. Anim Behav 65:1161-1167. doi: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2118
40. Plaut I (2000) Resting metabolic rate, critical swimming speed, and routine activity of the euryhaline cyprinodontid, Aphanius dispar, acclimated to a wide range of salinities. Physiol Biochem Zool 73:590-596. doi: 10.1086/317746
41. Rehage JS, Barnett BK, Sih A (2005) Behavioural responses to a novel predator and competitor of invasive mosquitofish and their non-invasive relatives (Gambusia sp.). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 57:256-266
42. Rice JA, Sax DF (2005) Testing fundamental evolutionary questions at large spatial and demographic scales: species invasions as an underappreciated tool. In: Sax DF, Stachowicz JJ, Gaines SD (eds) Species Invasions: insights into ecology, evolution and biogeography. Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass., pp 291-308
43. Rincón PA, Correas AM, Morcillo F, Risueño P, Lobón-Cerviá J (2002) Interaction between the introduced eastern mosquitofish and two autochthonous Spanish toothcarps. J Fish Biol 61:1560-1585. doi: 10.1006/jfbi.2002.2175
44. Snelson FF Jr (1989) Social and environmental control of life history traits in poeciliid fishes. In: Meffe GK, Snelson Jr FF (eds) Ecology and evolution of livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae). Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., pp 149-161
45. Sokal RR, Rohlf FJ (1995) Biometry: the principles and practice of statistics in biological research. Freeman, New York
46. Swanson C (1998) Interactive effects of salinity on metabolic rate, activity, growth and osmoregulation in the euryhaline milkfish (Chanos chanos). J Exp Biol 201:3355-3366
47. Tabachnick BG, Fidell LS (2001) Computer-assisted research design and analysis. Allyn and Bacon, Boston, Mass.
48. Taniguchi Y, Nakano S (2000) Condition-specific competition: implications for the altitudinal distribution of stream fishes. Ecology 81:2027-2039
49. Taniguchi Y, Rahel FJ, Novinger DC, Gerow KG (1998) Temperature mediation of competitive interactions among three fish species that replace each other along longitudinal stream gradients. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 55:1894-1901. doi: 10.1139/cjfas-55-8-1894
50. Tansley AG (1917) On competition between Galium saxatile L. (G. hercynicum Weig.) and Galium sylvestre Poll. (G. asperum Schreb.) on different types of soil. J Ecol 5:173-179
51. Thomas ML, Holway DA (2005) Condition-specific competition between invasive Argentine ants and Australian Iridomyrmex. J Anim Ecol 74:532-542. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2005.00952.x
52. von Ende CN (2001) Repeated-measures analysis: growth and other time-dependent measures. In: Scheiner SM, Gurevitch J (eds) Design and analysis of ecological experiments. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 134-157