Biomanipulation in shallow lakes: state of the art

Perrow, Martin R.; Meijer, Marie‐Louise; Dawidowicz, Piotr; Coops, H.

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-5648-6_37

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“…Consumption by age 0 yellow bass was 12 to 47% of annual zooplankton production, likely limiting zooplankton abundance. This is similar to other shallow lake systems where zooplanktivorous fish (e.g., age 0 yellow perch) suppress zooplankton, thereby limiting lake restoration success, (Perrow et al, 1995(Perrow et al, , 1996. In Clear Lake, zebra mussels may increase the likelihood of successful lake restoration by compensating for reduced zooplankton abundance due to age 0 yellow bass predation.…”

Section: Food Web and Lake Restorationsupporting

confidence: 69%

A food web modeling analysis of a Midwestern, USA eutrophic lake dominated by non-native Common Carp and Zebra Mussels

Colvin

Pierce

Stewart

2015

Ecological Modelling

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Food web modeling is recognized as fundamental to understanding the complexities of aquatic systems.Ecopath is the most common mass-balance model used to represent food webs and quantify trophic inter-actions among groups. We constructed annual Ecopath models for four consecutive years during the firsthalf-decade of a zebra mussel invasion in shallow, eutrophic Clear Lake, Iowa, USA, to evaluate changesin relative biomass and total system consumption among food web groups, evaluate food web impactsof nonnative common carp and zebra mussels on food web groups, and to interpret food web impactsin light of ongoing lake restoration. Total living biomass increased each year of the study; the majorityof the increase due to a doubling in planktonic blue green algae, but several other taxa also increasedincluding a more than twoorder of magnitude increase in zebra mussels. Common carp accounted for thelargest percentage of total fish biomass throughout the study even with on-going harvest. Chironomids,common carp, and zebra mussels were the top-three ranking consumer groups. Non-native commoncarp and zebra mussels accounted for an average of 42% of the total system consumption. Despite the rel-atively high biomass densities of common carp and zebra mussel, food web impacts was minimal due toexcessive benthic and primary production in this eutrophic system. Consumption occurring via benthicpathways dominated system consumption in Clear Lake throughout our study, supporting the argumentthat benthic food webs are significant in shallow, eutrophic lake ecosystems and must be considered ifecosystem-level understanding is to be obtained. Keywords: Ecopath Zebra mussels Dreissena polymorpha Common carp Cyprinus carpio Non-native Trophic interactions Lake restoration a b s t r a c t Food web modeling is recognized as fundamental to understanding the complexities of aquatic systems. Ecopath is the most common mass-balance model used to represent food webs and quantify trophic interactions among groups. We constructed annual Ecopath models for four consecutive years during the first half-decade of a zebra mussel invasion in shallow, eutrophic Clear Lake, Iowa, USA, to evaluate changes in relative biomass and total system consumption among food web groups, evaluate food web impacts of non-native common carp and zebra mussels on food web groups, and to interpret food web impacts in light of on-going lake restoration. Total living biomass increased each year of the study; the majority of the increase due to a doubling in planktonic blue green algae, but several other taxa also increased including a more than two-order of magnitude increase in zebra mussels. Common carp accounted for the largest percentage of total fish biomass throughout the study even with on-going harvest. Chironomids, common carp, and zebra mussels were the top-three ranking consumer groups. Non-native common carp and zebra mussels accounted for an average of 42% of the total system consumption. Despite the relatively high biomass densities of common carp...

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Section: Food Web and Lake Restorationsupporting

confidence: 69%

A food web modeling analysis of a Midwestern, USA eutrophic lake dominated by non-native Common Carp and Zebra Mussels

Colvin

Pierce

Stewart

2015

Ecological Modelling

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“…The B nuisance was bounded between 220 and 550 kg/ha so that the biomanipulation events did not occur too frequently (i.e., every year); the upper bound represented the maximum of recent biomass estimates. Scenario 2 (the first biomanipulation scenario) used a pulsed proportional reduction of 0.75 when biomass exceeded B nuisance (Perrow et al 1995;Hansson et al 1998). Scenario 3 (the second biomanipulation scenario) employed a pulsed reduction of biomass to 100 kg/ha (Mehner et al 2004;Bajer et al 2009) when B nuisance was exceeded.…”

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“…By controlling nuisance fish populations, piscivores can induce a trophic cascade that leads to improved water quality, recovery of sport fish populations, and increased biological diversity (Carpenter et al 1985;Kitchell 1992;Lathrop et al 2002). Unfortunately, the biological control of common carp biomass by use of predation has not been successful without prior biomanipulation (Perrow et al 1995;Mehner et al 2004).…”

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Strategies to Control a Common Carp Population by Pulsed Commercial Harvest

Colvin

Pierce

Stewart

et al. 2012

N American J Fish Manag

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Commercial fisheries are commonly used to manage nuisance fishes in freshwater systems, but such efforts are often unsuccessful. Strategies for successfully controlling a nuisance population of common carpCyprinus carpio by pulsed commercial harvest were evaluated with a combination of (1) field sampling, (2) population estimation and CPUE indexing, and (3) simulation using an exponential semidiscrete biomass dynamics model (SDBDM). The range of annual fishing mortalities (F) that resulted in successful control (F= 0.244-0.265) was narrow. Common carp biomass dynamics were sensitive to unintentional underharvest due to high rates of surplus production and a biomass doubling time of 2.7 years. Simulations indicated that biomanipulation never achieved successful control unless supplemental fishing mortality was imposed. Harvest of a majority of annual production was required to achieve successful control, as indicated by the ecotrophic coefficient (EC). Readily available biomass data and tools such as SDBDMs and ECs can be used in an adaptive management framework to successfully control common carp and other nuisance fishes by pulsed commercial fishing. RightsWorks produced by employees of the U.S. Government as part of their official duties are not copyrighted within the U.S. The content of this document is not copyrighted. AbstractCommercial fisheries are commonly used to manage nuisance fishes in freshwater systems, but such efforts are often unsuccessful. Strategies for successfully controlling a nuisance population of common carp Cyprinus carpio by pulsed commercial harvest were evaluated with a combination of (1) field sampling, (2) population estimation and CPUE indexing, and (3) simulation using an exponential semidiscrete biomass dynamics model (SDBDM). The range of annual fishing mortalities (F) that resulted in successful control (F = 0.244-0.265) was narrow. Common carp biomass dynamics were sensitive to unintentional underharvest due to high rates of surplus production and a biomass doubling time of 2.7 years. Simulations indicated that biomanipulation never achieved successful control unless supplemental fishing mortality was imposed. Harvest of a majority of annual production was required to achieve successful control, as indicated by the ecotrophic coefficient (EC). Readily available biomass data and tools such as SDBDMs and ECs can be used in an adaptive management framework to successfully control common carp and other nuisance fishes by pulsed commercial fishing.

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“…reduction in the nutrients input) and top-down procedures, where the higher trophic levels are manipulated (i.e. stocking of piscivorous fish, removal of plancktivorous fish) (PERROW et al, 1997). One of the first steps in the processes of top-down biomanipulation is the knowledge of the trophic function of the key species that compose the system (PERROW et al, 1997).…”

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Feeding of two Cichlidae species (Perciformes) in an hypertrophic urban lake

Yafe¹,

Loureiro²,

Scasso³

et al. 2002

Iheringia, Sér. Zool.

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Diet of two cichlid species, Cichlasoma facetum (Jenyns, 1842), and Gymnogeophagus rhabdotus Hensel, 1870, was studied in Rodó Lake, an urban hypertrophic lake in Uruguay. The stomach contents from 192 individuals of C. facetum and 202 of G. rhabdotus, obtained through seasonal sampling in the year 2000, were analyzed. The occurrence frequency and the alimentary importance index of each food item were calculated for each season and size class in both species. Cichlasoma facetum fed upon insects (mainly chironomid larvae and pupae), fish (Cnesterodon decemmaculatus Jenyns, 1842), and vegetals (algae, periphyton and macrophytes debris); large individuals also fed upon the freshwater shrimp Palaemonetes argentinus Nobili, 1901. Gymnogeophagus rhabdotus consumed zooplankton (mainly copepods), vegetals (algae and detritus) and Chironomidae larvae in a lesser extent.

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Biomanipulation in shallow lakes: state of the art

Cited by 69 publications

References 75 publications

A food web modeling analysis of a Midwestern, USA eutrophic lake dominated by non-native Common Carp and Zebra Mussels

A food web modeling analysis of a Midwestern, USA eutrophic lake dominated by non-native Common Carp and Zebra Mussels

Strategies to Control a Common Carp Population by Pulsed Commercial Harvest

Feeding of two Cichlidae species (Perciformes) in an hypertrophic urban lake

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