Long-term Invertebrate Community Response to Toxaphene Treatment in Two Lakes: 50-yr Records Reconstructed from Lake Sediments

Miskimmin, Brenda M.; Schindler, D. W.

doi:10.1139/f94-091

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“…Fingerling et al. (14) state that toxaphene consists of at least [180][181][182][183][184][185][186][187][188][189][190] components mostly with the formula C 10 H 18-n Cl n or C 10 H 16-n Cl n where n is 6-10. Buser et al (15) report that polychlorobornanes (C 10 H 18-n Cl n where n = 5-12) are formed as the main components in a Wagner-Meerwin type rearrangement reaction.…”

Section: Physical and Chemical Propertiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental occurrence, analysis, and toxicology of toxaphene compounds.

Geus¹,

Besselink²,

Brouwer³

et al. 1999

Environ Health Perspect

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Section: Physical and Chemical Propertiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental occurrence, analysis, and toxicology of toxaphene compounds.

Geus¹,

Besselink²,

Brouwer³

et al. 1999

Environ Health Perspect

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“…In some lakes, fish reproduction failed, and the lakes became fishless again after several years. The invertebrate faunas of stocked lakes did not always recover, even in lakes where fish did not survive Miskimmin and Schindler 1994;Paul and Schindler 1994).…”

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Restoration of the food web of an alpine lake following fish stocking

McNaught

Schindler

Parker

et al. 1999

Limnology & Oceanography

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Trout stocking in the mid-1960s eliminated the calanoid copepod Hesperodiaptomus arcticus and other largebodied crustaceans such as Gammarus lacustris, Daphnia middendorffiana, and Daphnia pulex from many alpine lakes in the Rocky Mountain Parks of Canada. H. arcticus frequently dominates the plankton communities of fishless lakes, preying on rotifers and nauplius larvae. Following the extirpation of H. arcticus, rotifers and small-bodied cyclopoid copepods dominate the zooplankton assemblages of alpine lakes.We studied the zooplankton community of Snowflake Lake, Banff National Park, from 1966 to 1995. H. arcticus was eliminated following stocking of the lake with trout in the 1960s. It failed to become reestablished after the disappearance of the fish population in the mid-1980s. Several species of rotifers and small-bodied crustaceans, species originally rare or absent from the plankton, became abundant following fish stocking and remained so after the fish population declined.In 1992, we reintroduced H. arcticus to Snowflake Lake. The H. arcticus population grew exponentially for 4 yr, but had not reached stable densities typical of unmanipulated alpine lakes by 1995. By 1994, however, even the small population of Hesperodiaptomus was beginning to suppress populations of rotifers, copepod nauplii, and large diatoms. Because H. arcticus is omnivorous, a simple model of cascading trophic interactions did not predict the outcome of trophic manipulations in this alpine lake.

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“…Miskimmin and Schindler [74] analyzed sediment cores collected in two toxaphene-treated basins, finding that manipulation of stocked fish was a confounding factor that accounted most for macroinvertebrate community changes.…”

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Biomonitoring of lake sediments using benthic macroinvertebrates

Bettinetti

Ponti

Marziali

et al. 2012

TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry

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The Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) is an innovative piece of legislation aimed at protecting the quality of all continental and coastal waters in Europe through an ecological evaluation of the ecosystems. Since it is widely acknowledged that the greater the ecological realism the greater the difficulty of its definition, we describe the different uses of benthic organisms as a tool for assessing the quality of sediment in lakes. We review the responses from single species to the community. We focus on studies in the laboratory and in the field, and we also critically consider the use of predictive models for these evaluations.Our discussion of the information collected underlines the importance of the relation between sensitivity of single species and contaminants. Moreover, the recent approach in developing mechanistic models to predict the response of natural communities seems to be particularly powerful for community ecology, and we strongly recommend more effort along these lines. ª

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Long-term Invertebrate Community Response to Toxaphene Treatment in Two Lakes: 50-yr Records Reconstructed from Lake Sediments

Cited by 32 publications

References 25 publications

Environmental occurrence, analysis, and toxicology of toxaphene compounds.

Environmental occurrence, analysis, and toxicology of toxaphene compounds.

Restoration of the food web of an alpine lake following fish stocking

Biomonitoring of lake sediments using benthic macroinvertebrates

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