Benthic and Pelagic Secondary Production in Lake Erie after the Invasion of Dreissena spp. with Implications for Fish Production

Johannsson, Ora E.; Dermott, R.; Graham, Donna M.; Dahl, Julie A.; Millard, Éric; Myles, D D; LeBlanc, Jennifer S.

doi:10.1016/s0380-1330(00)70671-x

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“…Their model either did not consider or did not indicate the effect of direct consumption of small zooplankton taxa; in fact it predicted that zebra mussels would have little effect on zooplankton abundance. Johannsson et al (2000) concluded that although zebra mussels reduced algal biomass and primary productivity in Lake Erie, they were unable to demonstrate a negative impact of zebra mussels on zooplankton by competition. Zebra mussels did impact zooplankton in other ways, namely by reducing rotifer abundance and biomass and by producing veligers that contributed 10-25% of the zooplankton productivity.…”

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Lake St. Clair Zooplankton: Evidence for Post-DreissenaChanges

David

Davis

Hunter

2009

Journal of Freshwater Ecology

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Lake St. Clair Zooplankton: Evidence for Post-DreissenaChanges

David

Davis

Hunter

2009

Journal of Freshwater Ecology

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“…Officer et al (1982) and Stanczykowska and Lewandowski (1993) reported that benthic filtering bivalves can sequester much of the pelagic primary production, thereby altering the balance between pelagic and benthic food webs. Johannsson et aL (2000) suggested that conditions that favour bivalve dominance include a high proponion of suitable substrate, lack of stratification of the overlying water, and good water flow. The authors compared the benthic and pelagic secondary production in Lake Erie between 1979 and 1993 and demonstrated that the benthic biomass increased greatly between the two study periods because of the invasion of lake by Dreissena species (Mollusca: Bivalvia).…”

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Species Composition and Seasonal Population Dynamics of the Benhic Fauna in Khor Kalabsha, Lake Nasser, Egypt

EI-Tantawy

Bishai

Abdel

et al. 2003

Egypt. J. of Aquatic Biolo. and Fish.

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“…Before their arrival to the Great Lakes, native benthic suspension feeders had relatively low filtering capacity due to their much lower biomass densities (Johannsson et al 2000). The extent to which this massive expansion of benthic filter feeders can control primary production depends on the morphometry and hydrodynamics of the system (Boegman et al 2008).…”

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A deep chlorophyll maximum nourishes benthic filter feeders in the coastal zone of a large clear lake

Malkin¹,

Silsbe²,

Smith³

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Limnology & Oceanography

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Water column profiles demonstrated that a deep chlorophyll maximum (DCM) in the littoral zone of Lake Ontario intersected the benthos during the development of stratification. We hypothesized that elevated food supply near the lake bottom may be nourishing littoral-zone benthic suspension feeders during this time. Chlorophyll fluorescence was monitored at three heights above the lake bottom, together with near-bottom water velocity using down-facing acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs), at three coastal stations along a crossshore transect. Concurrently, growth rates of quagga mussels (Dreissena bugensis) caged at the lake bottom were compared with mussels suspended 2 m above the bottom. Over a 3-month period beginning April, caged lakebottom mussels grew rapidly (mean biomass-specific growth rate 5 1.08 yr 21 ), while over a 3-month period beginning July, bottom mussels experienced a decrease in biomass (20.74 yr 21 ). Suspended mussels always grew significantly faster than bottom mussels (2.3 and 2.2 yr 21 in Apr and Jul experiments, respectively), affirming previously predicted growth inhibition on the lake bottom due to seston depletion. The different growth rate between seasons of the caged-bottom mussels was most likely attributable to differences in near-bottom chlorophyll concentrations. There was significantly higher chlorophyll a concentration near the lake bottom during the April experiment (average of two stations closest to shore 5 2.7 mg L 21 ) relative to the July experiment (0.21 mg L 21 at the same stations). We suggest that littoral-zone quagga mussels are nourished during the onset of stratification via development of a DCM.

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Benthic and Pelagic Secondary Production in Lake Erie after the Invasion of Dreissena spp. with Implications for Fish Production

Cited by 125 publications

References 60 publications

Lake St. Clair Zooplankton: Evidence for Post-DreissenaChanges

Lake St. Clair Zooplankton: Evidence for Post-DreissenaChanges

Species Composition and Seasonal Population Dynamics of the Benhic Fauna in Khor Kalabsha, Lake Nasser, Egypt

A deep chlorophyll maximum nourishes benthic filter feeders in the coastal zone of a large clear lake

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