Trophic status of a non-native crayfish in an oligotrophic lake: bottom-up view of a mixed warmwater and coldwater sport fishery food web

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-414
Author(s):  
John R. Loffredo ◽  
Barry C. Moore ◽  
Brian Lanouette ◽  
Raymond W. Lee ◽  
Stephen L. Katz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Web ◽  
Trophic Status ◽  
Oligotrophic Lake ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Sport Fishery ◽  
Lake Bottom ◽  
Native Crayfish

Trophic Relationships in Freshwater Pelagic Ecosystems

1986 ◽  
Vol 43 (8) ◽  
pp. 1571-1581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald J. McQueen ◽  
John R. Post ◽  
Edward L. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Food Web ◽  
Trophic Status ◽  
Size Structure ◽  
Trophic Relationships ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Eutrophic Lakes ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Coefficients Of Variation ◽  
Step Down ◽  
Pelagic Ecosystems

Relative impacts of bottom-up (producer controlled) and top-down (consumer controlled) forces on the biomass and size structure of five major components of freshwater pelagic systems (piscivores, planktivores, zooplankton, phytoplankton, and total phosphorus availability) were estimated. Predictions that emerge are (1) maximum biomass at each trophic level is controlled from below (bottom-up) by nutrient availability, (2) this bottom-up regulation is strongest at the bottom of the food web (i.e. phosphorus → phytoplankton) and weakens by a factor of 2 with each succeeding step up the food web, (3) as energy moves up a food web, the predictability of bottom-up interactions decreases, (4) near the top of the food web, top-down (predator mediated) interactions are strong and have low coefficients of variation, but weaken with every step down the food web, (5) variability around the bottom-up regressions can always be explained by top-down forces, and (6) interplay between top-down and bottom-up effects changes with the trophic status of lakes. In eutrophic lakes, top-down effects are strong for piscivore → zooplankton, weaker for planktivore → zooplankton, and have little impact for zooplankton → phytoplankton. For oligotrophic lakes, the model predicts that top-down effects are not strongly buffered, so that zooplankton → phytoplankton interactions are significant.

Genetic diversity of picoeukaryotes in eight lakes differing in trophic status

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biying Zhao ◽  
Meijun Chen ◽  
Ying Sun ◽  
Jiaxin Yang ◽  
Feizhou Chen
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
Trophic Status ◽  
Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Oligotrophic Lake ◽  
Rrna Genes ◽  
Multivariate Statistical ◽  
Mesotrophic Lake ◽  
Gradient Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Lake Xuanwu

The genetic diversity of picoeukaryotes (0.2–5.0 µm) was investigated in 8 lakes differing in trophic status in Nanjing, China. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and cloning and sequencing of 18S rRNA genes were applied to analyze the picoeukaryotic communities. DGGE analysis showed that among the 8 lakes, the diversity of picoeukaryotes was greatest in the mesotrophic Lake Nan (24 bands) and least in the oligotrophic Lake Qian (12 bands). Cluster analysis of DGGE profiles revealed that the 8 lakes were grouped into 2 distinct clusters. Cluster 1 contained lakes Mochou, Zixia, Huashen, Nan, Pipa, and Qian, while cluster 2 contained lakes Xuanwu and Baijia. Clone libraries were constructed from the mesotrophic Lake Xuanwu and the oligotrophic Lake Zixia, and the 2 libraries were compared using the program LIBSHUFF. This analysis indicated that the picoeukaryotic community composition differed significantly between the 2 lakes (p = 0.001). A total of 25 operational taxonomic units were detected; 18 (62 clones) were related to known eukaryotic groups, while 7 (30 clones) were not affiliated with any known eukaryotic group. Alveolates and stramenopiles were the dominant groups in Lake Xuanwu, while alveolates and chlorophyta predominated in Lake Zixia. Multivariate statistical analysis indicated that the differences in the picoeukaryotic community composition of the 8 lakes might be related to trophic status and top-down regulation by metazooplankton.

scholarly journals Bottom-up control of whitefish populations in ultra-oligotrophic Lake Brienz

2007 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolf Müller ◽  
Martina Breitenstein ◽  
Mampasi Mbuenemo Bia ◽  
Christian Rellstab ◽  
Arthur Kirchhofer
Keyword(s):  
Oligotrophic Lake ◽  
Bottom Up

Microcystin-LR concentration in aquatic food web compartments from lakes of varying trophic status

1996 ◽  
Vol 53 (9) ◽  
pp. 1974-1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.G. Kotak ◽  
R.W. Zurawell ◽  
E.E. Prepas ◽  
C.F.B. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Food Web ◽  
Trophic Status ◽  
Aquatic Food Web ◽  
Aquatic Food

scholarly journals Warming and nitrogen affect size structuring and density dependence in a host–parasitoid food web

2012 ◽  
Vol 367 (1605) ◽  
pp. 3033-3041 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio de Sassi ◽  
Phillip P. A. Staniczenko ◽  
Jason M. Tylianakis
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Food Web ◽  
Food Webs ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Ecological Communities ◽  
Food Web Structure ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Mediated Effects ◽  
Web Structure ◽  
Nitrogen Treatments

Body size is a major factor constraining the trophic structure and functioning of ecological communities. Food webs are known to respond to changes in basal resource abundance, and climate change can initiate compounding bottom-up effects on food-web structure through altered resource availability and quality. However, the effects of climate and co-occurring global changes, such as nitrogen deposition, on the density and size relationships between resources and consumers are unknown, particularly in host–parasitoid food webs, where size structuring is less apparent. We use a Bayesian modelling approach to explore the role of consumer and resource density and body size on host–parasitoid food webs assembled from a field experiment with factorial warming and nitrogen treatments. We show that the treatments increased resource (host) availability and quality (size), leading to measureable changes in parasitoid feeding behaviour. Parasitoids interacted less evenly within their host range and increasingly focused on abundant and high-quality (i.e. larger) hosts. In summary, we present evidence that climate-mediated bottom-up effects can significantly alter food-web structure through both density- and trait-mediated effects.

scholarly journals Food web structure in a double-basin ultra-oligotrophic lake in Northwest Patagonia, Argentina, using carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes

Limnologica ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Arcagni ◽  
Linda M. Campbell ◽  
María Angélica Arribére ◽  
Kurt Kyser ◽  
Kerry Klassen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotopes ◽  
Food Web ◽  
Oligotrophic Lake ◽  
Nitrogen Stable Isotopes ◽  
Food Web Structure ◽  
Carbon And Nitrogen ◽  
Web Structure

scholarly journals Bottom-up effects of lake sediment on pelagic food-web compartments: a mesocosm study

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (8) ◽  
pp. 1695-1709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loïc Harrault ◽  
Béatrice Allard ◽  
Jacques Mériguet ◽  
David Carmignac ◽  
Sylvain Huon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Web ◽  
Lake Sediment ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Pelagic Food Web

scholarly journals Interpreting variation in fish-based food web indicators: the importance of “bottom-up limitation” and “top-down control” processes

2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 406-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. O. M. Reilly ◽  
H. M. Fraser ◽  
R. J. Fryer ◽  
J. Clarke ◽  
S. P. R. Greenstreet
Keyword(s):  
Food Web ◽  
Food Webs ◽  
Trophic Levels ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Control Processes ◽  
Top Predators ◽  
Environmental Status ◽  
Fish Predators ◽  
Firth Of Forth

Abstract Reilly, T. O. M., Fraser, H. M., Fryer, R. J., Clarke, J., and Greenstreet, S. P. R. 2014. Interpreting variation in fish-based food web indicators: the importance of “bottom-up limitation” and “top-down control” processes. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71: 406–416. Proposed indicators for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) food webs Descriptor focus on structural elements of food webs, and in particular on the abundance and productivity of top predators. However, the inferences that can be drawn from such indicators depend on whether or not the predators are “bottom-up limited” by the availability of their prey. Many seabird populations appear to be “bottom-up limited” so that variation in their reproductive success and/or abundance reflects changes in lower trophic levels. Here we find that gadoid fish predators off the Firth of Forth, southeast Scotland, do not appear to be “bottom-up limited” by the biomass of their main prey, 0-group sandeels; gadoid biomass and feeding performance was independent of sandeel biomass. Variability in food web indicators based on these gadoid predators seems to impart little insight into underlying processes occurring at lower trophic levels in the local food web. The implications of this in terms of how the currently proposed MSFD food web indicators should be used and interpreted are considered, and the ramifications in terms of setting targets representing good environmental status for both fish and seabird communities are discussed.

scholarly journals Coupling of the spatial dynamic of picoplankton and nanoflagellate grazing pressure and carbon flow of the microbial food web in the subtropical pelagic continental shelf ecosystem

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.-P. Chiang ◽  
A.-Y. Tsai ◽  
P.-J. Tsai ◽  
G.-C. Gong ◽  
S.-F. Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Food Web ◽  
Heterotrophic Bacteria ◽  
Microbial Food Web ◽  
Size Fractionation ◽  
Pelagic Ecosystem ◽  
Active Growth ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Bacteria Growth ◽  
Oligotrophic Ecosystem

Abstract. In order to investigate the mechanism of spatial dynamics of picoplankton community (bacteria and Synechococcus spp.) and estimate the carbon flux of the microbial food web in the oligotrophic Taiwan Warm Current Water of subtropical marine pelagic ecosystem, we conducted size-fractionation experiments in five cruises by the R/V Ocean Research II during the summers of 2010 and 2011 in the southern East China Sea. We carried out culture experiments using surface water which, according to a temperature-salinity (T-S) diagram, is characterized as oligotrophic Taiwan Current Warm Water. We found a negative correlation bettween bacteria growth rate and temperature, indicating that the active growth of heterotrophic bacteria might be induced by nutrients lifted from deep layer by cold upwelling water. This finding suggests that the area we studied was a bottom-up control pelagic ecosystem. We suggest that the microbial food web of an oligotrophic ecosystem may be changed from top-down control to resource supply (bottom-up control) when a physical force brings nutrient into the oligotrophic ecosystem. Upwelling brings nutrient-rich water to euphotic zone and promotes bacteria growth, increasing the picoplankton biomass which increased the consumption rate of nanoflagellate. The net growth rate (growth rate–grazing rate) becomes negative when the densities of bacteria and Synechococcus spp. are lower than the threshold values. The interaction between growth and grazing will limit the abundances of bacteria (105-106 cells mL-1 and Synechococcus spp. (104-105 cells mL-1) within a narrow range, forming a predator-prey eddy. Meanwhile, 62% of bacteria production and 55% of Synechococcus spp. production are transported to higher trophic level (nanoflagellate), though the cascade effect might cause an underestimation of both percentages of transported carbon. Based on the increasing number of sizes we found in the size-fractionation experiments, we estimated that the predation values were underestimated by 28.3% for bacteria and 34.6% for Synechococcus spp. Taking these corrections into consideration, we conclude that picoplankton production is balanced by nonoflagellate grazing and the diet of nanoflagellate is composed of 64% bacteria and 36% Synechococcus spp.

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