The role of depth in regulating water quality and fish assemblages in oxbow lakes

Goetz, Daniel B.; Miranda, Leandro E.; Kröger, R.; Andrews, Caroline S.

doi:10.1007/s10641-014-0330-z

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“…Our study is the first to address the complex interplay between species traits and exogenous environmental and biogeographic factors in driving different dimensions of rarity within a single analytical framework that explicitly accounts for shared phylogeny among species. Gaston and Blackburn (1996), c Beamish (1978), d Griffiths (2010), e Luiz et al (2013), f Swihart et al (1988), g Minns (1995), h Marsh (1986), i Winemiller and Rose (1992), j Paine (1990), k Matthews (1998), l Goodwin et al (2005), m Knouft and Page (2003), n Blanchet et al (2013), o Gregory and Gaston (2000), p Hocutt and Wiley (1986), q Goetz et al (2015), r Brown (1984), s Hanski et al (1993), t Hartley (1998), u Gaston and McArdle (1993), v Power (1987), w Brown et al (1995), x White et al (2007), y Page (1985), z Lindeman (1942), aa Marquet (2002), bb Winemiller and Rose (1993), cc Mahon (1984), dd Oberdorff et al (1993).…”

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Drivers and interrelationships among multiple dimensions of rarity for freshwater fishes

Giam

Olden

2017

Ecography

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Species can be rare or common in three different dimensions: geographic range size, habitat breadth, and local abundance. Understanding drivers of rarity are not only fundamentally interesting; it is also pertinent for their conservation. We addressed this challenge by analyzing the rarity of 291 native freshwater fishes occurring in ca 3500 independent stream reaches that span a broad environmental gradient across continental USA. Using phylogenetic regression and path analysis, we examined the concordance among the three rarity dimensions, and identified possible mechanisms by which species life‐history, habitat affinities, and biogeography drive variation in rarity. Weak double extinction jeopardies were driven by weakly positive correlations between habitat breadth and local abundance, and between habitat breadth and geographic range size. However, a triple extinction jeopardy was averted as local abundance and range size were not positively linked in our study. This is because large‐river and lacustrine habitat use mediated a trade‐off between local abundance and range size. Large rivers and lacustrine habitats represent important dispersal pathways and refugia that enabled fishes to acquire wide ranges; however, species using these habitats are less abundant overall because they are less adapted to small lotic channels, which comprise the majority of stream habitats in the US. Life‐history traits were key in governing the relationship between abundance and range size as large‐river and lacustrine habitat use were driven by body size, egg size, and parental care. Our analysis contributes novel insights into mechanisms that underlie multiple dimensions of rarity in freshwater fish and informs the prioritization of multiply rare species for conservation.

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Drivers and interrelationships among multiple dimensions of rarity for freshwater fishes

Giam

Olden

2017

Ecography

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“…() and Goetz et al. () observed that shallow oxbow lakes (<1.5 m) of the Brazos River (Texas, USA) and Yazoo River (Mississippi, USA) respectively had lower fish abundance than deeper lakes and supported fish assemblages of more tolerant small‐bodied species, similar to taxa abundant in oxbow lakes of the FLR (i.e., O. emiliae, La. sicculus, L. humilis and G. affinis ).…”

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“…Previous research has elucidated the influence of environmental characteristics (i.e., connectivity, depth, size, dissolved oxygen concentration, turbidity and water temperature) on ecosystem processes and structure of fish assemblages in oxbow lakes (Winemiller, Tarim, Shormann, & Cotner, 2000;Penczak et al, 2004;Miranda, 2005;Zeug, Winemiller, & Tarim, 2005;Miyazono, Aycock, Miranda, & Tietjen, 2010). Younger oxbow lakes have characteristics that facilitate exchange of nutrients and biota during flood pulses; they are often close to the main river channel and have relatively high connectivity and greater depth, attributes associated with higher fish species richness and abundance (Winemiller et al, 2000;Miranda, 2005;Zeug et al, 2005;Goetz, Miranda, Kröger, & Andrews, 2015). As oxbow lakes age, annual flood events and channel migration often lead to shallow, isolated waterbodies with physicochemical conditions (e.g., low dissolved oxygen and high temperatures) (Winemiller et al, 2000;Penczak et al, 2004) that adversely affect fish survival and lower fish richness and abundance.…”

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Fish nursery habitat function of the main channel, floodplain tributaries and oxbow lakes of a medium‐sized river

Naus

Adams

2016

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

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Small, adventitious tributaries (<3 orders of magnitude smaller than the stream it flows into) are a conspicuous feature of many river–floodplain systems, but their value as fish reproduction and nursery habitat is not well understood compared to oxbow lakes and the main river channel (MRC). Moreover, connectivity of tributaries to the MRC is often less impacted by anthropogenic modifications (e.g., dams and levees) compared to oxbow lakes. From April to July 2012, larval and juvenile fish were collected in the Fourche LaFave River (Arkansas, USA) system to better understand fish nursery habitat function of tributaries relative to oxbow lakes and the MRC. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling ordination of juvenile and larval fish genera revealed distinct fish assemblages in MRC and floodplain habitats. Ordination of juvenile fish at the species level resulted in distinct fish assemblages in tributary versus oxbow lake habitats. Tributaries had more unique species and higher abundance of shared species than oxbow lakes and MRC. Additionally, of the 46 species identified, all but six were collected in lower tributary reaches. Connectivity was strongly associated with both ordinations and was important in describing patterns of fish variation among habitats and between tributaries. Of the tributaries sampled, the least fragmented stream had the most similar fish assemblages between upper and lower sections. Findings of this study revealed tributaries are an important, yet overlooked, feature in the river–floodplain model. Especially in years of drought, channel–floodplain connectivity can be limited, but tributaries can be used by fishes for reproduction and nursery habitat.

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“…al., 2015). The connection between aquatic and terrestrial species found in river floodplains make the location of oxbows among the most biologically diverse systems in the world (Bayley 1995;Ward et al 1999;Goetz et al, 2015) As a result, they provide habitat diversity, floodwater storage, and treatment of nutrient loads (Schilling et al, 2017). However, continuous accumulation of sediment within floodplains reduces oxbow's capacity to hold water.…”

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“…As a result, these degraded floodplains have reduced capacity for a variety of important ecological processes. Large-scale agricultural and urban development practices on floodplains have compromised fluvial dynamics and water quality of streams (Bayley 1995;Ward et al, 1999;Goetz et al, 2015). Furthermore, stream straightening and incising reduces the meandering effects of rivers, degrading water quality and riparian habitat while increasing flooding.…”

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Characterization of hydrology and water quality at a restored oxbow

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The role of depth in regulating water quality and fish assemblages in oxbow lakes

Cited by 14 publications

References 28 publications

Drivers and interrelationships among multiple dimensions of rarity for freshwater fishes

Drivers and interrelationships among multiple dimensions of rarity for freshwater fishes

Fish nursery habitat function of the main channel, floodplain tributaries and oxbow lakes of a medium‐sized river

Characterization of hydrology and water quality at a restored oxbow

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