Alteration of Ecosystem Function by Zebra Mussels in Oneida Lake: Impacts on Submerged Macrophytes

Zhu, Bin; Fitzgerald, Dean G.; Mayer, Christine M.; Rudstam, Lars G.; Mills, Edward L.

doi:10.1007/s10021-005-0049-y

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“…For example, within two years of the discovery of the Dreissena spp. invasion, Oneida Lake in central New York experienced a dramatic and sustained 40% increase in water clarity [80]. Not all lakes in the NENA region were subjected to all of these external stressors, and corresponding trends in transparency may be non-linear (e.g., Dreissena spp.…”

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Transparency, Geomorphology and Mixing Regime Explain Variability in Trends in Lake Temperature and Stratification across Northeastern North America (1975–2014)

Richardson

Melles

Pilla

et al. 2017

Water

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Lake surface water temperatures are warming worldwide, raising concerns about the future integrity of valuable lake ecosystem services. In contrast to surface water temperatures, we know far less about what is happening to water temperature beneath the surface, where most organisms live. Moreover, we know little about which characteristics make lakes more or less sensitive to climate change and other environmental stressors. We examined changes in lake thermal structure for 231 lakes across northeastern North America (NENA), a region with an exceptionally high density of lakes. We determined how lake thermal structure has changed in recent decades and assessed which lake characteristics are related to changes in lake thermal structure. In general, NENA lakes had increasing near-surface temperatures and thermal stratification strength. On average, changes in deepwater temperatures for the 231 lakes were not significantly different than zero, but individually, half of the lakes experienced warming and half cooling deepwater temperature through time. More transparent lakes (Secchi transparency >5 m) tended to have higher near-surface warming and greater increases in strength of thermal stratification than less transparent lakes. Whole-lake warming was greatest in polymictic lakes, where frequent summer mixing distributed heat throughout the water column. Lakes often function as important sentinels of climate change, but lake characteristics within and across regions modify the magnitude of the signal with important implications for lake biology, ecology and chemistry.

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Transparency, Geomorphology and Mixing Regime Explain Variability in Trends in Lake Temperature and Stratification across Northeastern North America (1975–2014)

Richardson

Melles

Pilla

et al. 2017

Water

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“…Due to their high biomass in these lakes (e.g., up to 150 g shell-free DM m 22 ; Fleisher et al 2001), dreissenid mussels have been credited with reengineering nutrient distributions by removing suspended particulate matter through filterfeeding, then excreting dissolved regenerated nutrients as well as generating organic waste as feces and pseudofeces in the benthos (Hecky et al 2004). This process, recently termed ''benthification'' (Zhu et al 2006), has been implicated in shifting pools of matter with attendant nutrients from the pelagia to the benthos and increasing the solar radiant flux to the littoral benthos. Mussels can be an important source of nutrients to overlying flora (Kahlert and Pettersson 2002) and, furthermore, may remove competitive demands for nutrients via filtration of plankton (Holland et al 1995).…”

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Modeling the growth response of Cladophora in a Laurentian Great Lake to the exotic invader Dreissena and to lake warming

Malkin

Guildford

Hecky

2008

Limnology & Oceanography

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A Cladophora growth model (CGM) is calibrated and validated here to simulate attached and sloughed Cladophora biomass in daily time-steps in an urbanized location of Lake Ontario, using two years of collected input data and independent measurements of Cladophora biomass. The CGM is used to hindcast Cladophora growth using multiplicative factors of seasonal minimal tissue phosphorus concentrations (Q P ) and seasonal mean nearshore light attenuation (Kd PAR ) of the early 1970s and 1980s relative to modern data. The possible effects of climate on growth are also forecast using additive temperature increases. Cladophora Q P in Lake Ontario has declined in parallel with decreasing pelagic P concentrations, resulting in reduced Cladophora biomass at all depths in the euphotic zone. Kd PAR has also declined, most strongly since the mid-1990s, following Dreissena mussel invasion, driving an increase in biomass between 3.5-and 10-m depth. Combining these effects, the CGM predicts that biomass along shorelines today is lower in Lake Ontario than in the 1980s. However, any increases in Q P in this post-dreissenid-mussel period will result in greater Cladophora proliferation than in previous decades due to increased nearshore water clarity. Cladophora Q P , while still currently lower than in the early 1980s, may be rising due to P supply to the littoral zone by the invasive mussels. The surface water temperature of Lake Ontario indicates warming of 0.96uC decade 21 from 1980 to 2006. With increasing surface water temperatures, the CGM predicts an earlier spring growth but only a marginal increase in peak Cladophora biomass.Eutrophication continues to be among the most critical and pervasive issues facing coastal waters-marine and freshwater alike ( Nuisance densities of Cladophora have been reported from estuaries (Gordon and McComb 1989;Valiela et al. 1997), inland seas (Kiirikki 1996;Curiel et al. 2004), and hardwater rivers and lakes with moderate energy (Power 1992;Parker and Maberly 2000). In the Laurentian Great Lakes, Cladophora is a nuisance throughout Lakes Ontario, Erie, and Michigan, where hard substrate is available, and in isolated areas near nutrient point sources in Lake Huron (Herbst 1969).There is a widespread perception that since the establishment of invasive dreissenid mussels (i.e., the zebra mussel [Dreissena polymorpha] and the quagga mussel [D. bugensis]) over the past 15 yr, Cladophora biomass has resurged in the lower Great Lakes (Mills et al. 2003;Hecky et al. 2004;Bootsma et al. 2005). The degree to which this perception is accurate, however, is unclear. Due to their high biomass in these lakes (e.g., up to 150 g shell-free DM m 22 ; Fleisher et al. 2001), dreissenid mussels have been credited with reengineering nutrient distributions by removing suspended particulate matter through filterfeeding, then excreting dissolved regenerated nutrients as well as generating organic waste as feces and pseudofeces in the benthos (Hecky et al. 2004). This process, recently termed ''benthification'...

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“…The phenomenon of changes which are expressed in increase benthic and periphytic primary production over pelagic production in the food web, had been named as process of "benthification" or "contouring"/contourization [1] which reflect an overall alteration of the aquatic ecosystem function [1][2][3][4]. Increased water transparency after Dreissena polymorpha Pallas 1771 invasion has been favor benthic algal primary production in freshwater systems previously dominated by phytoplankton production as in the Oneida Lake, Naroch Lake, and others [4,5].…”

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“…Increased water transparency after Dreissena polymorpha Pallas 1771 invasion has been favor benthic algal primary production in freshwater systems previously dominated by phytoplankton production as in the Oneida Lake, Naroch Lake, and others [4,5]. The sun light in the open ecosystems is the overriding factor that determines the distribution and diversity of autotrophes and the dreissenid invasion as mediating factor of water transparency and light penetration increasing is the most important.…”

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Benthification in the Inland Water Ecosystems of Eurasia, some Ecological Aspects

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2017

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The changing in the trophic pyramid structure in aquatic ecosystems named as benthification/contourization is important process the results of which not only affects fishing, but also creates technical interference in cooling reservoirs. We compared the benthification process in natural large Lake Balkhash and artificial cooling pool of Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant on the base of long-term study of phytoplankton, zooplankton, and zoobenthos.

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Alteration of Ecosystem Function by Zebra Mussels in Oneida Lake: Impacts on Submerged Macrophytes

Cited by 162 publications

References 55 publications

Transparency, Geomorphology and Mixing Regime Explain Variability in Trends in Lake Temperature and Stratification across Northeastern North America (1975–2014)

Transparency, Geomorphology and Mixing Regime Explain Variability in Trends in Lake Temperature and Stratification across Northeastern North America (1975–2014)

Modeling the growth response of Cladophora in a Laurentian Great Lake to the exotic invader Dreissena and to lake warming

Benthification in the Inland Water Ecosystems of Eurasia, some Ecological Aspects

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