Some Factors Affecting the Abundance of Minnows in the Des Moines River, Iowa

Starrett, William C.

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“…This was especially true of sunfishes (Centrarchidae) and catfishes (Ictaluridae), which require at least six weeks of inundation to build nests, spawn, and care for their young (Sparks et al 1998). The diverse fauna of minnows (Cyprinidae) and darters (Percidae) also take advantage of flood events, with each species having somewhat different responses (Starrett 1951, Grossman et al 1982. Today, the flood regime in most of these rivers is more like that of Europe because of extensive modification of the watersheds and river channels (Sparks et al 1998) although most of the centrarchids and ictalurids are still common in permanent lakes, ponds, and channels, many of them artificially created and maintained.…”

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Patterns in the Use of a Restored California Floodplain by Native and Alien Fishes

Moyle

Crain²,

Whitener³

2007

SFEWS

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Patterns in the Use of a Restored California Floodplain by Native and Alien Fishes

Moyle

Crain²,

Whitener³

2007

SFEWS

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“…Seasonal and annual variation in stream flow and temperature, especially during spawning periods, can induce striking seasonal and annual variation in fish reproductive success, density, species composition, and species richness (Starrett 1951, Schlosser 1982, 1985, 1987b. Annual fluctuations in reproductive success of stream fishes are likely to be more pronounced in Minnesota than Panama (with Illinois intermediate) because the seasonal "window" during which spawning is physiologically feasible is shortest in Minnesota.…”

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Species‐Area Relationship for Stream Fishes

Angermeier¹,

Schlosser²

1989

Ecology

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Abstract. We sampled riffle and pool habitats of small streams in Minnesota, Illinois, and Panama to examine variation in species-area relationships within and between the respective fish faunas. For six of the seven steams studied, habitat volume was a better predictor of species richness than was habitat area, and number of individuals was a better predictor of species richness than habitat volume. Slopes of species-volume relationships were similar among regions, but the number of species per unit volume was greater in Panama. Multiple regression analyses indicated that knowledge of habitat complexity and volume did not enhance appreciably the capability of linear models to predict species richness from number of individuals in the sample. These results support the hypothesis that species-area relationships may often be epiphenomena stemming from the more comprehensive community "samples" intercepted by larger habitat patches. Although number of individuals was the best single predictor of species richness, habitat structure and type clearly influenced species' distributions in some streams, thereby indicating that speciesarea relationships were not strictly sampling phenomena. An index of habitat complexity based on depth, current, and bottom type was correlated with species richness in two Panama streams. Also, the abundance of individual species was more likely to be correlated with habitat volume in Panama than in Illinois or Minnesota, and species relative abundances were more similar between years in Panama than in Illinois or Minnesota streams, especially in pools. These patterns suggest that in streams subject to strong seasonal and annual environmental variation, habitat features are poorer predictors of fish distribution and abundance than in streams subject to less environmental variability. We speculate that annual variability in reproductive success and harsh winters interact to maintain imbalance between the fish assemblages and their habitat in Minnesota. Weak relationships between species richness and habitat volume or complexity may be indicative of population variability and the predominance of extinction/recolonization processes in community organization. Ecological Society of America

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“…The pools water becomes acidic at Tori during premonsoon 1998(value-6.16), Dissolve Oxygen (1.6 mg/l), Free Carbondioxide (9.58 mg/l) and high alkalinity (245.7 mg/l). It needs mention here that several workers like Starrett ( 1951), Canton et al (1984), Georgy, (1988a,1988b) and Angelo et al(1995), reviewed the effects of late summer reduction in stream flow on fishes emphasizing their crowding and fingerlings crowd in shallow stagnant pools. The present observation in the Damodar River, as stated above, corroborate their findings.…”

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Breeding Ground Profile of Food Fish Species in Damodar River System

Sarkar¹,

Banerjee²

2010

IJB

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Today unwise anthropogenic activity has disturbed the natural ecosystem globally. Civilization on its way to goal has destroyed nature as well as natural diversity. Aquatic ecosystem is also facing the same adverse effect as they are used as waste releasing source. However, anthropogenic activity has drastically damaged the natural habitat of all the living being. Though river water is used for agriculture, fisheries, residential and industrial developments, mining activity, navigation, power generation and variety of other activities including sand digging and disposal of industrial and domestic wastes, but still, some natural breeding do exists in the nature. Identification of those natural breeding ground and to bring them under proper conservation is a most effective way of natural breed conservation. The river Damodar is the most important watershed in the eastern part of India and is one of the main tributaries of the Ganga. The river housed a healthy fish faunal diversity in the recent past but today in spite of drastic deterioration of natural ecosystem, astonishingly no significant difference occurred in faunal composition of the river system.

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Some Factors Affecting the Abundance of Minnows in the Des Moines River, Iowa

Cited by 91 publications

References 9 publications

Patterns in the Use of a Restored California Floodplain by Native and Alien Fishes

Patterns in the Use of a Restored California Floodplain by Native and Alien Fishes

Species‐Area Relationship for Stream Fishes

Breeding Ground Profile of Food Fish Species in Damodar River System

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