Northern Range Expansion and Invasion by the Common Carp, &lt;em&gt;Cyprinus carpio&lt;/em&gt;, of the Churchill River System in Manitoba

Badiou, Pascal; Goldsborough, L. Gordon

doi:10.22621/cfn.v120i1.250

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“…Climate models predict that common carp will advance northward and inhabit much of Canada by the year 2100 (Minns and Moore 1995). Indeed, common carp have increased their northern range in recent years (Badiou and Goldsborough 2006), and our results indicate that strong yearclasses of common carp populations at high latitudes are related to warm spring-summer temperatures. Thus, great potential exists for climate change to have a pronounced effect on common carp populations and range expansion as a result of warming temperatures.…”

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Quantifying the spatial scale of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) recruitment synchrony

Weber

Brown

Wahl

et al. 2017

Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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Understanding spatial and temporal fluctuations in animal populations remains a central theme in ecology. Here, we investigated the extent of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) recruitment synchrony across North America in relation to a suite of climatic conditions. Common carp were collected from 21 populations up to a linear distance of 2300 km between the most southern and northern locations. Age-frequency histograms were used to estimate year-class strength, and correlation coefficients were used to evaluate synchrony among populations and environmental variables. We then evaluated relationships between common carp recruitment and winter growing degree-days (GDD), summer GDD, precipitation, wind events, and the El Niño Southern Oscillation Index (ENSO). Common carp recruitment was synchronous up to 756 km but asynchronous at larger scales. Winter and summer GDD, precipitation, and wind were also synchronous among locations up to 1640 km apart. Summer GDD appeared most influential to common carp recruitment but varied across latitudes, with negative effects identified at low latitudes and positive effects identified at higher latitudes. Our results provide new insights into the spatial scale of recruitment synchrony of a non-native freshwater fish and indicate that climatic conditions at local to regional scales likely influence recruitment patterns.

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Quantifying the spatial scale of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) recruitment synchrony

Weber

Brown

Wahl

et al. 2017

Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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“…Species range expansions can also arise from shifts in dispersal pathways and intensities (e.g., bird migration pathways [ Gillespie et al ., ], which can occur in concert with, for example, climate warming). Highly invasive warm‐water species such as the waterweed Elodea canadensis , the ruffe Gymnocephalus cernuus , and the common carp Cyprinus carpio all have the potential for enhanced northern range expansion related to climate warming and increased interconnectivity of aquatic environments from an intensified hydrological cycle [ Madsen and Brix , ; Badiou and Goldsborough , ; Rahel and Olden , ; Heikkinen et al ., ]. Host‐parasite‐disease distributions and related trophic interactions will also be altered with fish [ Reist et al ., , ] and terrestrial species (e.g., caribou and musk ox [ Kutz et al ., ]) expanding their current range into northern habitats and bringing associated parasite fauna and diseases [ Marcogliese , , ; Hoberg et al ., ; Hoberg and Kutz , ].…”

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Transitions in Arctic ecosystems: Ecological implications of a changing hydrological regime

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Numerous international scientific assessments and related articles have, during the last decade, described the observed and potential impacts of climate change as well as other related environmental stressors on Arctic ecosystems. There is increasing recognition that observed and projected changes in freshwater sources, fluxes, and storage will have profound implications for the physical, biogeochemical, biological, and ecological processes and properties of Arctic terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. However, a significant level of uncertainty remains in relation to forecasting the impacts of an intensified hydrological regime and related cryospheric change on ecosystem structure and function. As the terrestrial and freshwater ecology component of the Arctic Freshwater Synthesis, we review these uncertainties and recommend enhanced coordinated circumpolar research and monitoring efforts to improve quantification and prediction of how an altered hydrological regime influences local, regional, and circumpolar-level responses in terrestrial and freshwater systems. Specifically, we evaluate (i) changes in ecosystem productivity; (ii) alterations in ecosystem-level biogeochemical cycling and chemical transport; (iii) altered landscapes, successional trajectories, and creation of new habitats; (iv) altered seasonality and phenological mismatches; and (v) gains or losses of species and associated trophic interactions. We emphasize the need for developing a process-based understanding of interecosystem interactions, along with improved predictive models. We recommend enhanced use of the catchment scale as an integrated unit of study, thereby more explicitly considering the physical, chemical, and ecological processes and fluxes across a full freshwater continuum in a geographic region and spatial range of hydroecological units (e.g., stream-pond-lake-river-near shore marine environments).

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“…Warming rates and water temperatures have been documented to positively affect recruitment of numerous fishes, including Alewives Alosa pseudoharengus (Madenjian et al 2005), Yellow Perch Perca flavescens (Redman et al 2011), and Common Carp (Edwards and Twomey 1982;Phelps et al 2008b). Although Common Carp populations do extend into southern Canada (Badiou and Goldsborough 2006), populations in South Dakota are near the northern edge of their range where annual variation in springsummer temperatures may influence recruitment success. Differences in springtime warming patterns among years probably affected timing of spawning and hatching and may have increased rate of ontogenetic development, thereby reducing stage-duration-related mortality (Miller et al 1988;Bailey and Houde 1989).…”

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Density‐Dependence and Environmental Conditions Regulate Recruitment and First‐Year Growth of Common Carp in Shallow Lakes

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Brown

2013

Trans Am Fish Soc

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Recruitment dynamics of fishes can determine their abundance and subsequent effects of adult populations on ecosystem properties. Common Carp Cyprinus carpio is a widespread invasive species that can exert negative density‐dependent effects on aquatic food webs. However, little is known concerning processes that regulate their recruitment. We used summer‐through‐fall electrofishing catch rates of age‐0 Common Carp to investigate the importance of biotic (stock size, prey availability, egg and juvenile predation, intraspecific competition) and abiotic (water level fluctuation, temperature, wind events) factors on recruitment and growth in 13 lakes across eastern South Dakota from 2008 to 2010. Mean relative abundance of age‐0 Common Carp was highly variable spatially and temporally, ranging from 0 to 152.2 fish per hour of electrofishing. Ricker stock–recruitment models indicated that peak production of age‐0 Common Carp occurred when adult Common Carp relative abundance was low. Recruitment also increased with spring–summer temperatures, decreased with wind events, and was affected by annual water level fluctuations. Age‐0 Common Carp growth, estimated by mean size in August, was highly variable (mean TL = 42–165 mm) and influenced by the abundance of conspecifics and wind events, indicating that density‐dependent interactions may have occurred during early life stages. Combined, our results suggest that the early life history of Common Carp is regulated by density‐dependent processes and abiotic environmental conditions, which provide new insights into mechanisms regulating recruitment of this widespread invasive species.

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Northern Range Expansion and Invasion by the Common Carp, <em>Cyprinus carpio</em>, of the Churchill River System in Manitoba

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

Quantifying the spatial scale of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) recruitment synchrony

Quantifying the spatial scale of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) recruitment synchrony

Transitions in Arctic ecosystems: Ecological implications of a changing hydrological regime

Density‐Dependence and Environmental Conditions Regulate Recruitment and First‐Year Growth of Common Carp in Shallow Lakes

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