Black Bass Diversity: Multidisciplinary Science for Conservation

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Largemouth Bass ◽  
Lake Erie ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Smallmouth Bass ◽  
Lake Surface ◽  
Oneida Lake ◽  
Black Bass ◽  
Lake Surface Area

<em>Abstract</em>.—Impacts of angling for black bass <em>Micropterus</em> spp. during the nesting stage have received much recent attention, with particular focus on individual nest and genetic implications. However, few empirical studies of population-level impacts have been conducted. New York State historically protected nesting bass with a closed season. In 1994, a special spring bass season was opened in the New York waters of Lake Erie, and in 2007, a spring catch-and-immediate-release season was opened in most of New York’s remaining waters. Long-term monitoring programs were in place on two inland lakes and New York’s portion of Lake Erie prior to the regulation changes, facilitating assessment of impacts of liberalizing regulations on year-class production. In Canadarago Lake (surface area 770 ha), fall electrofishing surveys sampled both young-of-year Largemouth Bass <em>M. salmoides</em> and Smallmouth Bass <em>M. dolomieu</em>. Mean catch per hour of Largemouth Bass during the 6 years prior to the spring season was 15.6, compared to 27.8/h over the postchange years (<em>p</em> = 0.63). For Smallmouth Bass in Canadargo Lake, prechange catch rates averaged 1.2/h, with a rate of 0.6/h after the change (<em>p</em> = 0.32). In Oneida Lake (surface area 20,670 ha), trawl surveys provided an index of young-of-year Smallmouth Bass. Average catch-per-haul during the 6 years prior to the regulation change was 0.4 compared to 1.8/haul during the following 6 years (<em>p</em> = 0.04). Gill-net surveys of age-2 Smallmouth Bass in Lake Erie produced a year-class index of 3.0/net over 15 years prior to opening of a spring bass fishery and a catch of 6.0/net over the following 17 years (<em>p</em> = 0.04). In three of four cases, year-class production increased following the opening of spring angling for bass, and increases were statistically significant for Smallmouth Bass in Oneida Lake and Lake Erie. Our results provide no evidence that spring fishing for black bass in large lake systems results in negative population level impacts on bass recruitment.

Patterns and prediction of α and β diversity of aquatic plants in Adirondack (New York) lakes

1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (12) ◽  
pp. 1797-1804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Weiher ◽  
Charles W. Boylen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Species Richness ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Aquatic Plants ◽  
Littoral Zone ◽  
Lake Surface ◽  
Acidic Lakes ◽  
Β Diversity ◽  
Lake Surface Area ◽  
The Difference

Patterns in α diversity (species richness) of submersed and floating-leafed aquatic plants were investigated for 45 lakes in the Adirondack region of northern New York State. Multiple linear regressions were used to build predictive models of species richness; the independent variables included lake surface area, approximate littoral zone area, pH, and measures of isolation and connectedness. The regression models that explained the most variance in species richness incorporated pH, a connectedness predictor, and either lake surface area or littoral zone area (r2 = 0.74). The two area measures accounted for a majority of the variance in species richness (about 57%), but neither was a superior predictor to the other. When acidic lakes were systematically removed from the multiple regression model, r2 tended to increase. The coefficient of determination was maximized (at r2 = 0.822) when we limited the data set to lakes with pH > 5.6. As there was no significant correlation between pH and any of the isolation or connectedness measures we used (maximum r = 0.18), acidic lakes are not more isolated than circumneutral lakes. Point β diversity (the heterogeneity of species composition among sites) was measured for each pair of lakes. It was not strongly correlated to either the difference in surface area or the difference in pH between pairs of lakes. Standardized nestedness was calculated following Wright and Reeves (1992, Oecologia 92 : 416 – 428). Adirondack lakes are moderately nested. An implication of this is that species that are found in less diverse lakes have a 44% probability of being found in more diverse lakes. Key words: Adirondacks, aquatic plant, β diversity, biogeography, lake, nestedness, pH, species richness.

Scaling relationships between lake surface area and catchment area

2020 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan A. Walter ◽  
Rachel Fleck ◽  
Michael L. Pace ◽  
Grace M. Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Surface Area ◽  
Catchment Area ◽  
Lake Surface ◽  
Scaling Relationships ◽  
Lake Surface Area

scholarly journals Simplified Lake Surface Area Method for the Minimum Ecological Water Level of Lakes and Wetlands

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Songpu Shang ◽  
Songhao Shang
Keyword(s):  
Water Level ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Lake Level ◽  
Lake Ecosystem ◽  
Lake Surface ◽  
Area Method ◽  
Ecosystem Protection ◽  
Lake Morphology ◽  
Lake Surface Area ◽  
Ecological Water Level

The determination of the rational minimum ecological water level is the base for the protection of ecosystems in shrinking lakes and wetlands. Based on the lake surface area method, a simplified lake surface area method was proposed to define the minimum ecological lake level from the lake level-logarithm of the surface area curve. The curve slope at the minimum ecological lake level is the ratio of the maximum lake storage to the maximum surface area. For most practical cases when the curve cannot be expressed as a simple analytical function, the minimum ecological lake level can be determined numerically using the weighted sum method for an equivalent multi-objective optimization model that balances ecosystem protection and water use. This method requires fewer data of lake morphology and is simple to compute. Therefore, it is more convenient to use this method in the assessment of the ecological lake level. The proposed method was used to determine the minimum ecological water level for one freshwater lake, one saltwater lake, and one wetland in China. The results can be used in the lake ecosystem protection planning and the rational use of water resources in the lake or wetland basins.

Forecasting future changes in Manzala Lake surface area by considering variations in land use and land cover using remote sensing approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hickmat Hossen ◽  
Mona G. Ibrahim ◽  
Wael Elham Mahmod ◽  
Abdelazim Negm ◽  
Kazuo Nadaoka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Lake Surface ◽  
Lake Surface Area

scholarly journals The global lake area, climate, and population dataset

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F. Meyer ◽  
Stephanie G. Labou ◽  
Alli N. Cramer ◽  
Matthew R. Brousil ◽  
Bradley T. Luff
Keyword(s):  
Surface Area ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Water Quantity ◽  
Lake Area ◽  
Lake Surface ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽  
Water Abundance ◽  
Multiple Data ◽  
Lake Surface Area

Abstract An increasing population in conjunction with a changing climate necessitates a detailed understanding of water abundance at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Remote sensing has provided massive data volumes to track fluctuations in water quantity, yet contextualizing water abundance with other local, regional, and global trends remains challenging by often requiring large computational resources to combine multiple data sources into analytically-friendly formats. To bridge this gap and facilitate future freshwater research opportunities, we harmonized existing global datasets to create the Global Lake area, Climate, and Population (GLCP) dataset. The GLCP is a compilation of lake surface area for 1.42 + million lakes and reservoirs of at least 10 ha in size from 1995 to 2015 with co-located basin-level temperature, precipitation, and population data. The GLCP was created with FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) data principles in mind and retains unique identifiers from parent datasets to expedite interoperability. The GLCP offers critical data for basic and applied investigations of lake surface area and water quantity at local, regional, and global scales.

Estimating suspended solid concentrations from lake surface area

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1512-1515
Author(s):  
Richard Douglas ◽  
Brian Rippey ◽  
Chris Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Surface Area ◽  
Suspended Solid ◽  
Lake Surface ◽  
Lake Surface Area

The effects of acidification on Scandinavian freshwater fish fauna

1984 ◽  
Vol 305 (1124) ◽  
pp. 517-528 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Freshwater Fish ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Aquatic Ecosystems ◽  
Fish Fauna ◽  
Fish Populations ◽  
Lake Surface ◽  
Southwest Coast ◽  
Freshwater Fish Fauna ◽  
Lake Surface Area ◽  
Southern Norway

Acidification of freshwaters have inflicted a m ajor perturbation on Scandinavian aquatic ecosystems as indicated by severe regional loss of fish populations. This decline was first noted in the early 1920s but became particularly severe after W orld W ar II in the 1950s and 1960s. In southern Norway regional dam age is now docum ented in an area of 33000 km 2 , 13000 km 2 of which are devoid offish. Several m ajor southern salmon rivers are now barren. In Sweden more than 2500 lakes are docum ented to be affected. This corresponds to 3 -4 % of the total lake surface area. An additional 6000 lakes are assumed to be affected by acidification. Population losses are also found in thousands of kilometres of running w ater as well as in salmon and seatrout rivers on the southwest coast. This paper describes the early observations, chronology of this decline and reviews possible causes and mechanisms. The acidification and the associated loss of fishstocks over vast areas is apparently the most devastating change recorded for the fish fauna of Scandinavia

scholarly journals Changes in the surface area of lakes in the Gwda River basin

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-129
Author(s):  
Kubiak-Wójcicka Katarzyna ◽  
Izabela Lewandowska
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Topographic Maps ◽  
Lake Surface ◽  
Water Surface Area ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Lake Surface Area

Abstract This paper presents lake surface area changes that have taken place in the Gwda River basin. The studies were conducted on the basis of the cartographic materials released since the beginning of the twentieth century until the present times. The starting point was the area of all lakes greater than 1 ha which are present on the MPHP map from 2010. The assessment of the changes in the surface area of lakes in the Gwda River basin during approximately the last 100 years was possible thanks to the use of German topographic maps, so called Messtischblatt, at a scale of 1: 25 000 released between 1919 and 1944. The area of all the studied lakes has decreased by 465.09 ha (from 12783.62 ha at the beginning of the twentieth century to 12318.53 ha at the present time). Despite the general trend of lake atrophy, in particular cases one may observe an increase in the water surface area. This is the result of hydrotechnical works leading to river and lake damming, which in turn hampers the pace of atrophy.

Black Bass Diversity: Multidisciplinary Science for Conservation

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Variation ◽  
Largemouth Bass ◽  
Salinity Gradient ◽  
Micropterus Salmoides ◽  
Metabolic Cost ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Freshwater Species ◽  
Population Demographics ◽  
Bioenergetics Modeling ◽  
Black Bass

<em>Abstract.</em>—Largemouth Bass <em>Micropterus salmoides</em> is typically thought of as a freshwater species, but populations occur in oligohaline portions of estuaries throughout the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts, often with popular fisheries. These coastal populations must deal with the physiological stresses associated with salinity variation and may be isolated from inland freshwater populations, increasing the potential for differentiation. To understand factors important to the ecology and management of these coastal populations, we quantified individual- and population-level parameters for Largemouth Bass across a natural salinity gradient in the Mobile-Tensaw River delta in southwestern Alabama during 2002–2009 (including population demographics, feeding ecology, movement, recruitment, and bioenergetics processes). Combining traditional mark–recapture and telemetry techniques with otolith microchemical analyses, we demonstrated that Largemouth Bass of all ages moved very little, even in response to increasing salinity (up to 15‰) in downstream areas. Large individuals were rare in our sampling across both fresh and brackish habitats (only 7 out of 9,530 individuals were >2.27 kg), and fish body condition increased downstream with increasing marine influence. Growth responses for fish across the estuary were more complex, varying with both fish age and salinity. Faster growth was observed in the brackish, downstream areas for fish ≤age 2, while growth of older fish was faster in freshwater upstream sites. Using bioenergetics modeling, we demonstrated that a complex combination of spatial variation in water temperature, prey energetic content, and metabolic cost of salinity was responsible for age-specific spatial variation in growth. Preliminary genetic analysis suggests that these coastal Largemouth Bass may differ genetically from inland fish. Coastal Largemouth Bass populations face a number of potential conservation concerns, and their management will require different approaches compared to their inland counterparts, including different goals and expectations, likely even requiring consideration as unique stocks.

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