Nutrient loading effects on fish habitat quality: Trade‐offs between enhanced production and hypoxia in Lake Erie, North America

Almeida, L. Zoe; Sesterhenn, Timothy M.; Rucinski, Daniel K.; Höök, Tomas O.

doi:10.1111/fwb.13881

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“…Intuitively, consumer biomass often increases with inputs of nutrients and greater primary productivity (Garcia et al 2006;Robillard and Fox 2006). However, there is a limit to increases, and tipping points whereby system health and fish biomass decrease with added nutrients are a symptom of eutrophication (Caddy 1993;Almeida et al 2022), especially for certain species (Honsey et al 2016). Thus, considering only bottom-up regulation of biomass is overly simplistic.…”

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What's good for fish is good for fishes: Interspecific consistency of growth, condition, and abundance among glacial lakes

Euclide,

Perry,

Donabauer

et al. 2024

N American J Fish Manag

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ObjectiveFish abundance and growth is regulated by a combination of bottom‐up and top‐down forces but many management techniques depend more heavily on the later. Here we evaluate if inter‐system variation in nutrient loading and bottom‐up forces play more dominant roles in control of abundance and growth of species across similar lakes than intra‐ and inter‐specific compensatory effects. We aim to assess whether patterns of abundance and growth are consistent among fish species across.MethodsWe test this by evaluating pairwise comparisons of catch‐per‐unit‐effort (CPUE), condition, and length‐at‐age data for eleven common warmwater fish species from 184 meso‐ and eutrophic glacial lakes in Indiana, USA. We characterize environmental conditions of each lake using limnological measurements (e.g., chlorophyll‐a concentration and surface temperature), lake morphology descriptions (e.g., depth and size), catchment characteristics (e.g., percent agricultural landcover), and nutrient load modeling using Long‐Term Hydrologic Impact Analysis (L‐THIA). Taking a meta‐analysis approach, we use effect size calculation from pairwise correlations among lakes to identify environmental and community impacts on species abundance, condition, and length‐at‐age.ResultWe demonstrate that there are positive associations among most species comparisons (i.e., multiple species experiencing relatively fast growth in the same lake). Evaluations of environmental conditions among systems suggest that differences in estimated phosphorus input, and the limnological measurements of total phosphorus, Secchi depth, and chlorophyll‐a concentration are good predictors of length‐at‐age, and CPUE for fish.ConclusionOur results indicate that there is a strong and consistent influence of environmental conditions and bottom‐up processes in determining species abundance and growth. This suggest that bottom‐up forces and environmental conditions linked to nutrient loading likely determine the upper‐boundary of fish abundance and growth in these lakes.

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“…However, there is a limit to increases, and tipping points whereby system health and fish biomass decrease with added nutrients are a symptom of eutrophication (Caddy 1993; Almeida et al. 2022), especially for certain species (Honsey et al. 2016).…”

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What's good for fish is good for fishes: Interspecific consistency of growth, condition, and abundance among glacial lakes

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Perry,

Donabauer

et al. 2024

N American J Fish Manag

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“…Additionally, phosphate buffers have been used in some ADAF formulations for pH control . Phosphorus is a potent driver of eutrophication − and can cause numerous impacts on aquatic ecosystems, including nuisance plant growth, , dissolved oxygen depletion and hypoxia, − fish mortality and habitat loss, − and a loss of ecosystem services. , Excess phosphorus loading can also cause toxin-producing harmful algal blooms (HABs) in freshwater systems, − and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) issued new phosphorus requirements for surface waters in 2010 . Airports are commonly required to have a stormwater discharge permit, which includes a pollution prevention plan and control measures for various types of waste.…”

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Airport Deicers: An Unrecognized Source of Phosphorus Loading in Receiving Waters

Stefaniak,

Corsi,

Rutter

et al. 2023

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Airport ice control products contributed to total phosphorus (TP) loadings in a study of surface water runoff at a medium-sized airport from 2015 to 2021. Eleven airport ice control products had TP concentrations from 1−807 mg L −1 in liquid formulas, while solid pavement deicer had a TP concentration of 805 mg kg −1 . Product application data, formula TP concentrations, and surface water sampling results were used to estimate TP concentration and loading contributions from these ice control products to receiving streams. Airport ice control products were found to contribute to TP in 84% of the water samples collected at downstream sites during deicing events, and TP concentrations at those sites exceeded aquatic life benchmarks in 70% of samples collected during deicing. A receiving stream 6 km downstream had TP attributed to airport ice control sources in 78% of the samples. TP loadings at an upstream site and the receiving stream site were greatest during the largest runoff events as is typical in urban runoff, but this pattern was not always followed at airport outfall sites due to the influence of TP in deicer products. Products analyzed in this study are used at airports across the United States and abroad, and findings suggest that airport deicers could represent a previously unrecognized source of phosphorus to adjacent waterways.

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Individual-Based Models for Incorporating Landscape Processes in the Conservation and Management of Aquatic Systems

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Day

Galla

et al. 2023

Curr Landscape Ecol Rep

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Nutrient loading effects on fish habitat quality: Trade‐offs between enhanced production and hypoxia in Lake Erie, North America

Abstract: 1. Across diverse systems, nutrient loading from anthropogenic sources into aquatic systems has increased over the past century. Such nutrient inputs may

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What's good for fish is good for fishes: Interspecific consistency of growth, condition, and abundance among glacial lakes

What's good for fish is good for fishes: Interspecific consistency of growth, condition, and abundance among glacial lakes

Airport Deicers: An Unrecognized Source of Phosphorus Loading in Receiving Waters

Individual-Based Models for Incorporating Landscape Processes in the Conservation and Management of Aquatic Systems

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