Ecology of Fishes Indigenous to the Central and Southwestern Great Plains

Fausch, Kurt D.; Bestgen, Kevin R.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-2703-6_6

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“…While these guidelines may or may not be appropriate for sand shiner mean RVI values for sand shiners in the current study indicate that recruitment variability is extremely high in Iowa's non-wadeable rivers. Variable recruitment is likely due to the harsh conditions and high variability of aquatic systems in the Great Plains region (Fausch andBestgen 1997, Dodds et al 2004). …”

Section: Data Anafysismentioning

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Population Dynamics of the Sand Shiner (Notropis stramineus) in Non-Wadeable Rivers of lowa

Smith¹,

Neebling²,

Quist³

2010

Journal of Freshwater Ecology

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The sand shiner (Notropis stramineus) is a common cyprinid found throughout the Great Plains region of North America that plays an important ecological role in aquatic systems. This study was conducted to describe population dynamics of sand shiners including age structure, growth, mortality, and recruitment variability in 15 non-wadeable rivers in Iowa. Fish were collected during June-August (2007-2008) using a modified Missouri trawl, a seine, and boat-mounted electrofishing. Scales were removed for age and growth analysis. A total of 3,443 fish was sampled from 15 populations across Iowa, of which 676 were aged. Iowa's sand shiner populations consisted primarily of age-1 fish (53% of all fish sampled), followed by age-2 fish (30%), age-0 fish (IS%), and age-3 fish (2%). Sand shiners grew an average of 38.5 mm (SE = 5.7) during their first year, 13.8 mm (4.5) during their second year, and 9.0 mm (6.9) during their third year. Total annual mortality varied from 35.0% to 92.3% among populations with a mean of 77.9% (0.2). Incremental mortality rates were 84.5% (0.2) between age 1 and age 2, and 92.0% (0

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confidence: 99%

Population Dynamics of the Sand Shiner (Notropis stramineus) in Non-Wadeable Rivers of lowa

Smith¹,

Neebling²,

Quist³

2010

Journal of Freshwater Ecology

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“…Beyond this, fishes of the Great Plains are highly mobile, and their distributions may change rapidly with varying environmental conditions (Fausch and Bestgen 1997). This suggests that surveys with more extensive spatial and seasonal coverage conducted over multiple years and between drought and non-drought periods are necessary to accurately describe the fish assemblage of the Upper Cheyenne River.…”

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Historical Fish Assemblage Flux in the Cheyenne River below Angostura Dam

Hoagstrom

DeWitte

Gosch

et al. 2007

Journal of Freshwater Ecology

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“…When present, northern plains killifish are readily captured (Minckley and Klaassen, 1969;Brown, 1986;Schmeidler and Brown, 1990). However, the species commonly has a patchy and transient distribution (Summerfelt, 1967;Fausch and Bestgen, 1997), which accounts for low detection. Low detection probability within the Cheyenne River drainage indicates that sampling effort should have been geographically and temporally extensive prior to designating the northern plains killifish as non-native.…”

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“…Northern plains killifish have an opportunistic life history, evidenced by small size at maturation (o5 cm), small maximum body size (o10 cm), short lifespan (o3 years), protracted spawning season, and limited parental care (Koster, 1957;Minckley and Klaassen, 1969;Brown, 1971;Schmeidler and Brown, 1990). Further, spawning may occur in response to rain (Pflieger, 1997), populations exhibit high resilience under favourable conditions (Summerfelt, 1967;Fausch and Bestgen, 1997), and population structure is responsive to environmental fluctuations (Schmeidler and Brown, 1990). An opportunistic life history is associated with unstable or unpredictable environments (Winemiller, 2005), consistent with the flow regime of the Cheyenne River drainage (Ruelle et al, 1993).…”

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Criteria for determining native distributions of biota: the case of the northern plains killifish in the Cheyenne River drainage, North America

Hoagstrom

Hayer

Berry

2008

Aquatic Conservation

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ABSTRACT1. Criteria exist to help determine native distributions of species, but they are seldom explicitly used. 2. As an example of their utility, nine revised and expanded criteria are applied to assess the status of northern plains killifish in the Cheyenne River drainage. Use of each criterion is demonstrated. The criteria are: (1) history, (2) detectibility, (3) biogeography, (4) life-history, (5) human affinity, (6) invasion path, (7) invasiveness, (8) phylogenetics, and (9) pre-history.3. Upon review, only one criterion weakly supports non-native status, whereas five strongly support native status, one weakly supports native status, and two are equivocal.4. Criteria to determine native distributions provide a rigorous method to assess available information, reveal knowledge gaps, and produce testable hypotheses. As demonstrated here, their consistent use as a cohesive set would greatly improve understanding of species distributions, benefiting conservation efforts and related metaanalyses.

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Ecology of Fishes Indigenous to the Central and Southwestern Great Plains

Cited by 119 publications

References 62 publications

Population Dynamics of the Sand Shiner (Notropis stramineus) in Non-Wadeable Rivers of lowa

Population Dynamics of the Sand Shiner (Notropis stramineus) in Non-Wadeable Rivers of lowa

Historical Fish Assemblage Flux in the Cheyenne River below Angostura Dam

Criteria for determining native distributions of biota: the case of the northern plains killifish in the Cheyenne River drainage, North America

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