Size‐related impacts of introduced brown trout on the distribution of native common river galaxias
作者:
AngusR. McIntosh,
ToddA. Crowl,
ColinR. Townsend,
期刊:
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
(Taylor Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 28,
issue 2
页码: 135-144
ISSN:0028-8330
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1080/00288330.1994.9516602
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Brown trout;Salmo trutta;common river galaxias;Galaxias vulgaris;competition;macrohabitat selection;fish size.
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The impact of small (fork length < 100 mm) and large (≥ 100 mm) brown trout (Salmo truttaL.) on the distribution of the common river galaxias (Galaxias vulgarisStokell) was investigated in the Shag River (South Island, New Zealand). Riffle reaches were sampled by electrofishing and their macrohabitat was described in terms of substratum, flow, elevation, and vegetation characteristics. Galaxias densities in reaches containing large trout were lower than reaches with only small trout or no trout and trout size was the most important variable determining galaxias density. Densities of galaxias < 80 mm were reduced in the presence of large trout, but not galaxias > 80 mm. Reaches with large, small, or no trout varied in terms of water depth, percentage cobble, and elevation. However, these differences were unlikely to account for variations in galaxias densities because selection for these particular habitat features accounted for only a small proportion of the observed variation in galaxias density. A change in macrohabitat use by galaxias from fast current velocities in sites without trout to slower velocities in sites with large trout may be explained by competition for areas of high velocity (potentially the better feeding areas). However, a combination of interspecific competition and predation by large brown trout is likely to be responsible for the observed reductions in the density of smaller galaxias.
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