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Long-term changes in benthic Cladocera populations in Lake Myvatn, Iceland. |
| المؤلفون: |
\' Arni Einarsson, Erla Björk Örnólfsdóttir |
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Aquatic Ecology; Jun2004, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p253-262, 10p |
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Benthic Cladocera were monitored at five sites in Lake Myvatn, Iceland, over a decade (19901999), as part of a programme documenting the population fluctuations of animals at different trophic levels in the lake. The species composition remained relatively stable over the first seven years, but in 1997 the population of Eurycercus lamellatus was greatly reduced at all sites. The following year saw a mass occurrence of Alona rectangula and Alonella nana that were previously abundant only locally and rare at most sites. Alona affinis, A. quadrangularis, Acroperus harpae and Chydorus sphaericus were not affected. In 1999 the Cladocera assemblages returned to the pre-1997 situation. The shift was from large-bodied epibenthic and planktonic species (Eurycercus, Daphnia) to small infaunal (Alona rectangula) and ubiquitous (Alonella nana) species. Medium sized (Alona, Acroperus) and some small cladocerans (Chydorus) were not affected. The course of events was reminiscent of a trophic cascade caused by a change in size-selective predation pressure. If so, the impact of a predatory fish population (three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus) depended on whether cyclic chironomid populations were in a high or a low phase. The change in the Cladocera coincided with profound changes in the sediment characteristics associated with low chironomid abundance. We suggest that the relative competitive ability of the Cladocera species is reversed when the sediment has become homogeneous and nutrient-poor after overexploitation by the dominant, tube building and detritivorous chironomid Tanytarsus gracilentus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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