Zooplankton Community Structure of Lake Livingston, Texas, as Related to Paddlefish Food Resources
作者:
CaseyK. Moore,
JamesB. Cotner,
期刊:
Journal of Freshwater Ecology
(Taylor Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 13,
issue 1
页码: 115-128
ISSN:0270-5060
年代: 1998
DOI:10.1080/02705060.1998.9663597
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The zooplankton community of Lake Livingston was examined in terms of composition, abundance, distribution, and appropriateness as a food resource for paddlefish,Polyodon spathula. By comparing the range of interraker distances of paddlefish (0.06–0.08 mm) to size measurements of different zooplankton taxa, we determined that paddlefish do not consume small rotifers and copepod nauplii as efficiently as they do larger, copepods and cladocerans. All zooplankton taxa (rotifers, cladocerans, and copepods) were comprised of relatively small organisms, and community abundance and biomass were dominated by small rotifers and copepod nauplii most of the year. In fall and winter, however, the biomass was dominated by copepods. A bioenergetics model predicted the paddlefish biomass that could be supported in Lake Livingston at a density of 1.17 kg ha−1, with a range of 0.06 to 10.45 kg ha−1.
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