Effects of fish predation on larval chironomid (Diptera: Chironomidae) communities in an arctic ecosystem |
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Authors: | Andrew P. Goyke Anne E. Hershey |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biology, University of Minnesota-Duluth, 55812 Duluth, MN, USA;(2) Present address: Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland System, P.O. Box 38, 20688 Solomons, MD, USA |
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Abstract: | Chironomid communities were analyzed in systems with three types of predator regimes to determine hierarchical effects of predation; ponds without fish present, lakes with slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus) present, and lakes with slimy sculpin present along with burbot (Lota Iota) and lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). Samples were collected by coring bare sediment habitats in 4 systems of each type near the Toolik Lake field station in northern Alaska. Lakes with burbot and lake trout present in addition to slimy sculpin displayed significantly higher (P<0.05) biomass, density, richness, and diversity. This is likely due to the increased complexity of the predator regime. Ponds without fish had a significantly greater percentage of predacious chironomids present. |
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Keywords: | arctic chironomidae diversity predation slimy sculpin |
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