<i>Leptodora kindti</i> and Flexible Foraging Behaviour of Fish – Factors behind the Delayed Biomass Peak of Cladocerans in Lake Hiidenvesi

Uusitalo, Laura; Horppila, Jukka; Eloranta, Pertti; Liljendahl‐Nurminen, Anne; Malinen, Tommi; Salonen, Mikko; Vinni, Mika

doi:10.1002/iroh.200390003

Cited by 28 publications

(44 citation statements)

References 31 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Reverse migration is a behaviour most often described for zooplankton that are vulnerable to invertebrate predation (LAMPERT, 1993). In Mustionselkä, Leptodora has been shown to regulate the death rate of Daphnia cristata (UUSITALO et al, 2003), and in the present study daphnids showed signs of reverse migration. Bleak selected positively for daphnids and bosminids during the day, and negatively during the night, which was probably induced by the increased availability of the much larger Leptodora at night.…”

Section: The Diets Of Fishmentioning

confidence: 70%

“…Cyclopoid copepods are the dominant group in the basin, which is a common phenomenon in eutrophic lakes due to the selective predation by planktivorous fish (EGGERS, 1982;GLIWICZ, 1985;TALLBERG et al, 1999). In the cladoceran community, however, larger Daphnia cristata SARS and Limnosida frontosa SARS dominate over small-sized bosminids (TALLBERG et al, 1999;UUSITALO et al, 2003), which is unexpected due the high density of planktivorous fish. HESSEN et al (1995) suggested that both Daphnia cristata and Limnosida frontosa are resistant to fish predation, but presented no clear explanation for the phenomenon.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Due to the high abundance of planktivorous fish, zooplankton can be predicted to avoid the illuminated water layers during daylight hours and only ascend to the surface during darkness. The situation is complicated, however, by the presence of the predatory cladoceran Leptodora kindtii, which forages heavily on zooplankton in Mustionselkä (UUSITALO et al, 2003), and may induce reverse migration.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Diel Variations in the Vertical Distribution of Crustacean Zooplankton and Food Selection by Planktivorous Fish in a Shallow Turbid Lake

Alajärvi¹,

Horppila

2004

International Review of Hydrobiology

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The variations in the vertical migrations by zooplankton and food composition of fish in the shallow, clay-turbid Mustionselkä basin of Lake Hiidenvesi were studied (water depth 3 m). Daphnids showed signs of reverse migration, their density in the surface layer being highest during the day. The reverse migration was probably due to predation threat by the predatory cladoceran Leptodora kindtii. Chydorus sphaericus, which was consumed especially by the day active bleak (Alburnus alburnus), showed normal vertical migration. Copepods showed no clear vertical movements. Leptodora kindtii, as well as the large herbivore Limnosida frontosa, showed no vertical migrations, but their overall abundance increased considerably during the night, indicating horizontal movement towards the open water at night. Due to the shallowness of the water, vertical migrations may not be a good predator-avoidance strategy for the largest cladocerans, which may be able to perform horizontal migrations.

show abstract

Section: The Diets Of Fishmentioning

confidence: 70%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Diel Variations in the Vertical Distribution of Crustacean Zooplankton and Food Selection by Planktivorous Fish in a Shallow Turbid Lake

Alajärvi¹,

Horppila

2004

International Review of Hydrobiology

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Benthivorous fish can contribute to sediment resuspension (Breukelaar et al 1994) but were an unlikely cause for the elevated resuspension rate in July-August, because the most abundant benthic feeding fish species [perch Perca fluviatilis (L.), roach Rutilus rutilus (L.), and white bream Abramis björkna (L.)] in the shallow basins of Lake Hiidenvesi turn from a zoobenthic to a zooplanktivorous diet as the summer progresses (Uusitalo et al 2003). The most obvious explanation for the high resuspension rate in July-August was the change in the sediment quality.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactions between sediment resuspension and sediment quality decrease the TN:TP ratio in a shallow lake

Niemistö

Holmroos

Pekcan‐Hekim

et al. 2008

Limnology & Oceanography

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The relative contributions of sediment resuspension and external nutrient loading to seasonal fluctuations of the total nitrogen to total phosphorus (TN : TP) ratio in the water column of the shallow Kirkkojä rvi basin were studied. In May, the TN : TP mass ratio was above 30, but it decreased to below 10 in July-August. In October, the ratio increased again. Water quality was regulated by external loading in spring, but the sharp decrease in the TN : TP ratio in July-August resulted mainly from the elevated sediment resuspension rate. In May and October, the resuspension rate was below 20 g dry weight (wt) m 22 d 21 , while in July-August it exceeded 60 g dry wt m 22 d 21 . Sediment resuspension decreases the TN : TP ratio in the water because the ratio in the surface sediment is low. The high resuspension rate in July-August could not be explained by wind effects, water level fluctuations, or bioturbation, but was instead attributed to the seasonal change in the sediment quality. During the summer, fresh material having low critical shear stress settled on the bottom until the critical shear stress was lower than the actual shear stress, and the resuspension rate increased steeply, although no increment in wave effects occurred. For a shallow lake, a single representative TN : TP ratio is misleading, because the seasonally fluctuating resuspension rate substantially affects the ratio and may induce switches between N and P limitation. Seasonal fluctuations in the resuspension rate may have important effects on algal communities, because low N to P ratios can favor N-fixing cyanobacteria over other algal groups. In Kirkkojä rvi, cyanobacteria became the dominant algal group during the period of intensive resuspension.

show abstract

“…In a survey of 696 glaciated lakes in eastern North America it was among the 10 most common species (N species 5 48), occurring in 45% of lakes (Carter et al 1980). Leptodora is a voracious predator of small-to medium-sized zooplankton (Andrews 1948;Herzig and Auer 1990) and is thought to have strong effects on the abundance (Hall 1964;Herzig 1995;Uusitalo et al 2003), seasonality (Costa and Cummins 1969;Herzig 1995), and composition of zooplankton communities (Lane 1979;Yan et al 2002;McNaught et al 2004). Although Leptodora densities are influenced by macro-invertebrate predators such as Bythotrephes in boreal lakes (Weisz and Yan 2011), this taxon remains an important predator in productive European and North American lakes (Enz et al 2001;Palmer et al 2001) where Bythotrephes abundance has declined because of eutrophication (Therriault et al 2002).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Food web consequences of size‐based predation and vertical migration of an invertebrate predator (Leptodora kindtii)

Vogt

Matthews

Cobb

et al. 2013

Limnology & Oceanography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In an intensive study of the vertical and horizontal distribution of zooplankton in a eutrophic lake (Katepwa Lake), we found that only adult Leptodora kindtii (. 5 mm in body size) exhibited diel vertical migration (DVM), whereas juvenile Leptodora (, 5 mm) and other zooplankton species did not. Even though a longitudinal survey of five lakes (1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004) indicated that variation in Leptodora density was correlated with several indicators of habitat use (e.g., water temperature) and resource availability (e.g., zooplankton abundance), feeding experiments performed in both lit and unlit conditions demonstrated that a vertebrate predator (perch) strongly reduced Leptodora abundances under all conditions and always preferentially selected large-bodied individuals. Collectively, this evidence suggests that the migratory behavior of large Leptodora is consistent with an antipredator defense strategy. To estimate the ecological significance of Leptodora DVM behavior, we modeled how predation rates on different zooplankton taxa differed between day and night in Katepwa Lake. We found that Leptodora had as much as five-fold higher prey-specific predation rates at night, particularly for intermediatesized prey. We conclude that ignoring the habitat use, size-structure, and vertical migration behavior of Leptodora could considerably underestimate the significance of invertebrate predation in lake food webs, particularly in eutrophic lakes where Leptodora can coexist at high densities with planktivorous fish.

show abstract

Leptodora kindti and Flexible Foraging Behaviour of Fish – Factors behind the Delayed Biomass Peak of Cladocerans in Lake Hiidenvesi

Cited by 28 publications

References 31 publications

Diel Variations in the Vertical Distribution of Crustacean Zooplankton and Food Selection by Planktivorous Fish in a Shallow Turbid Lake

Diel Variations in the Vertical Distribution of Crustacean Zooplankton and Food Selection by Planktivorous Fish in a Shallow Turbid Lake

Interactions between sediment resuspension and sediment quality decrease the TN:TP ratio in a shallow lake

Food web consequences of size‐based predation and vertical migration of an invertebrate predator (Leptodora kindtii)

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About