Food web perspectives and methods for riverine fish conservation

SM Naman, SM White, JR Bellmore… - Wiley …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Food web analyses offer useful insights into understanding how species interactions, trophic
relationships, and energy flow underpin important demographic parameters of fish …

Sequential migrations of diverse fish community provide seasonally prolonged and stable nutrient inputs to a river

A Kurasawa, Y Onishi, K Koba, K Fukushima… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
Animal migrations transport resources among spatially separate ecosystems, effectively
linking them. In freshwater ecosystems, numerous fish species migrate between mainstream …

[HTML][HTML] Yellowstone Lake ecosystem restoration: a case study for invasive fish management

TM Koel, JL Arnold, PE Bigelow, TO Brenden, JD Davis… - Fishes, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Invasive predatory lake trout Salvelinus namaycush were discovered in Yellowstone Lake in
1994 and caused a precipitous decrease in abundance of native Yellowstone cutthroat trout …

Invasive predator diet plasticity has implications for native fish conservation and invasive species suppression

HC Glassic, CS Guy, LM Tronstad, DR Lujan… - PloS One, 2023‏ - journals.plos.org
Diet plasticity is a common behavior exhibited by piscivores to sustain predator biomass
when preferred prey biomass is reduced. Invasive piscivore diet plasticity could complicate …

Predatory fish invasion induces within and across ecosystem effects in Yellowstone National Park

TM Koel, LM Tronstad, JL Arnold, KA Gunther… - Science …, 2019‏ - science.org
Predatory fish introduction can cause cascading changes within recipient freshwater
ecosystems. Linkages to avian and terrestrial food webs may occur, but effects are thought …

[PDF][PDF] Describing and preserving the diversity of cutthroat trout in the Yellowstone River, Snake River, and Bonneville Basin

MR Campbell, ER Keeley, CC Kozfkay… - … biology and taxonomy …, 2018‏ - academia.edu
Cutthroat Trout Oncorhynchus clarkii of the Yellowstone River, Snake River, and Bonneville
basin exhibit tremendous diversity in the habitats and landscapes in which they are found …

The importance of nutrient supply by fish excretion and watershed streams to a eutrophic lake varies with temporal scale over 19 years

TJ Williamson, MJ Vanni, MJ González, WH Renwick… - Biogeochemistry, 2018‏ - Springer
Animals transform and translocate nutrients at ecologically relevant rates, contributing to
eutrophication in aquatic ecosystems by mobilizing otherwise unavailable nutrients. Yet we …

A portfolio framework for prioritizing conservation efforts for Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout populations

R Al‐Chokhachy, BB Shepard, JC Burckhardt… - Fisheries, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Managing and conserving native taxa are becoming increasingly challenging because of
mounting threats and limited resources, predicating the need for frameworks to prioritize …

Salmon of the Southeastern US: sucker migrations deliver resource subsidies to oligotrophic stream

M White, K Wheeler, RR Hudson… - Ecology of Freshwater …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The ability for migratory fishes to move commonly limiting resources such as nitrogen (N)
and phosphorus (P) between discrete environments can have pronounced effects on …

An Invasive Predator Substantially Alters Energy Flux Without Changing Food Web Functional State or Stability

HC Glassic, JR Junker, CS Guy… - Aquatic …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how invasive species affect the stability and function of ecosystems is critical
for conservation. Here, we quantified the effect of an actively suppressed invasive species …