The Relationship between Fish Assemblages and Environmental Gradients in an Oklahoma Prairie Stream

Williams, Lance R.; Toepfer, Conrad S.; Martínez, Adoración

doi:10.1080/02705060.1996.9664474

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“…Pools are more likely to form in headwater reaches of prairie streams (Taylor et al 1996); thus, tolerances to environmental conditions such as high temperatures and salinities and low dissolved oxygen concentrations may influence fish composition over larger geographic scales (Ostrand 2000). Variable environmental conditions upstream, which become less variable downstream, have been suggested to be a common causal mechanism for longitudinal zonation of fish species (Matthews and Styron 1981;Taylor et al 1993;Williams et al 1996). Headwater stream reaches that are not spring-fed are often intermittent and environmentally harsher than the larger tributaries and mainstreams (Starrett 1950;Neel 1951;Metcalf 1959;Whiteside and McNatt 1972), particularly during periods of low flow and drought.…”

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Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, and Salinity Tolerances of Five Prairie Stream Fishes and Their Role in Explaining Fish Assemblage Patterns

Ostrand¹,

Wilde²

2001

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

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We compared the maximum temperature, maximum salinity, and minimum dissolved oxygen tolerances of two cyprinodontids and three cyprinids to identify the abiotic factors that determine assemblage structure in drying streambed pools. Red River pupfish Cyprinodon rubrofluviatilis, plains killifish Fundulus zebrinus, plains minnow Hybognathus placitus, smalleye shiner Notropis buccula, and sharpnose shiner N. oxyrhynchus all have high thermal, low dissolved oxygen, and high salinity tolerances. Cyprinodontids were able to tolerate temperatures between 39°C and 42°C, salinities up to 40‰, and dissolved oxygen concentrations as low as 0.95 mg/L, whereas cyprinids were tolerant of temperatures between 37°C and 41°C, salinities up to 14‰, and dissolved oxygen concentrations as low as 2.1 mg/L. Our laboratory results provide compelling evidence that the greater salinity tolerances of cyprinodontids can explain temporal changes in fish assemblages in evaporating streambed pools and may in part explain the spatial zonation of species within the upper Brazos River Basin, Texas.

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Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, and Salinity Tolerances of Five Prairie Stream Fishes and Their Role in Explaining Fish Assemblage Patterns

Ostrand¹,

Wilde²

2001

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

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“…Examples are classification and ordination (Tonn and Magnuson 1982), stepwise regression (Matuszek and Beggs 1988;Berrebi dit Thomas et al 1998) or regression tree analysis (Rathert et al 1999). A favourite method of gradient analysis in community study is canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) (Matthews 1998;Rodriguez and Magnan 1995;Harvey 1996;Williams et al 1996). CCA optimizes the description of sampling sites by their species lists and the description of species ecological traits by the distinctive features of the sites where they are found (Palmer 1993).…”

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Exploratory multiscale analysis of the fish assemblages and habitats of the lower St. Lawrence River, Québec, Canada

Leclerc¹,

DesGranges²

2005

Biodivers Conserv

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This work presents a multiscale analysis of the fish diversity of the lower St. Lawrence River which flows from the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America. A database of about 14,000 fish sampling stations from the lower St. Lawrence is linked to five different habitat maps of the study area: hydrographical units, water masses, depth, sediment type and wetland type. We hypothesize that species turnover (beta diversity) will be significant among these habitat maps. For each map, we calculate a UPGMA dendrogram based on the Jaccard coefficient of similarity in species occurrences as a first assemblage-habitat model. A randomization test is then used to identify the significant dendrograms from which we infer fish assemblages. We then show that many species are actually selecting or avoiding habitats. Finally, species selecting particular habitats are described by some selected ecological traits that are expected to occur frequently in those habitats. We found assemblages for the hydrographical units but not for the water masses. The fluvial section is selected by many stenohaline and some euryhaline species, while the freshwater estuary and the brackish estuary are only selected by euryhaline species. In the fluvial section at the hydrographical unit scale, many species associated with lentic habitats are limnophilic and more vegetation-dependent while many species selecting lotic habitats are rheophilic insectivorous species. Significant assemblages are defined for depth, sediment type and wetland type. Taken together, we found strong empirical evidence of a diverse actively selecting littoral assemblage of small, low mobility fishes opposing a channel assemblage of larger, more mobile fishes.

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“…While elevation may be a proxy for water temperature, stream size probably reflects differences in the geomorphology and position of a stream reach in a watershed (Bozek & Hubert 1992;Isaak & Hubert 2001). Studies on longitudinal zonation and addition of fishes in lotic systems have generally shown that species have boundaries related to stream size (e.g., Rahel & Hubert 1991;Williams et al 1996;Quist et al 2004). Although we used our data (as opposed to an independent data set) to establish thresholds of elevation and stream size for each species, this approach was appropriate because including reaches outside the known distribution of a species would confound analyses and obscure ecological interpretations.…”

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Hierarchical faunal filters: an approach to assessing effects of habitat and nonnative species on native fishes

Quist

Rahel

Hubert

2005

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

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Un resumen en españ ol se incluye detrás del texto principal de este artículo.Quist MC, Rahel FJ, Hubert WA. Hierarchical faunal filters: an approach to assessing effects of habitat and nonnative species on native fishes.Abstract -Understanding factors related to the occurrence of species across multiple spatial and temporal scales is critical to the conservation and management of native fishes, especially for those species at the edge of their natural distribution. We used the concept of hierarchical faunal filters to provide a framework for investigating the influence of habitat characteristics and nonnative piscivores on the occurrence of 10 native fishes in streams of the North Platte River watershed in Wyoming. Three faunal filters were developed for each species: (i) large-scale biogeographic, (ii) local abiotic, and (iii) biotic. The large-scale biogeographic filter, composed of elevation and stream-size thresholds, was used to determine the boundaries within which each species might be expected to occur. Then, a local abiotic filter (i.e., habitat associations), developed using binary logistic-regression analysis, estimated the probability of occurrence of each species from features such as maximum depth, substrate composition, submergent aquatic vegetation, woody debris, and channel morphology (e.g., amount of pool habitat). Lastly, a biotic faunal filter was developed using binary logistic regression to estimate the probability of occurrence of each species relative to the abundance of nonnative piscivores in a reach. Conceptualising fish assemblages within a framework of hierarchical faunal filters is simple and logical, helps direct conservation and management activities, and provides important information on the ecology of fishes in the western Great Plains of North America.

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The Relationship between Fish Assemblages and Environmental Gradients in an Oklahoma Prairie Stream

Cited by 13 publications

References 18 publications

Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, and Salinity Tolerances of Five Prairie Stream Fishes and Their Role in Explaining Fish Assemblage Patterns

Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, and Salinity Tolerances of Five Prairie Stream Fishes and Their Role in Explaining Fish Assemblage Patterns

Exploratory multiscale analysis of the fish assemblages and habitats of the lower St. Lawrence River, Québec, Canada

Hierarchical faunal filters: an approach to assessing effects of habitat and nonnative species on native fishes

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