Effects of habitat complexity on community structure and predator avoidance behaviour of littoral zooplankton in temperate versus subtropical shallow lakes

By M. Meerhoff, C. Iglesias, F. T. Mello, J. Clemente, Elisabeth Jensen, T. Lauridsen, Erik Jeppesen. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Freshwater food webs: towards a more fundamental understanding of biodiversity and community dynamics (2012, background): “Food-web studies are now explicitly incorporating biological mechanisms from behaviour (Meerhoff et al., 2007; Weidman et al., 2011), functional traits (Costantini & Rossi, 2010) and ecosystem energy fluxes (Kawaguchi & Nakano, 2001).”
Can warm climate‐related structure of littoral predator assemblies weaken the clear water state in shallow lakes? (2007, background): “Refuge-mediated positive effects of aquatic plants on water transparency might therefore be weak or rare in warm lakes (Meerhoff et al., 2007).”
High predation is of key importance for dominance of small-bodied zooplankton in warm shallow lakes: evidence from lakes, fish exclosures and surface sediments (2011, methodology): “…predation, rather than temperature, is responsible for the reduction in average body size observed in the zooplankton community towards the tropics (Sarma et al., 2005; Jeppesen et al., 2007; Meerhoff et al., 2007b; Havens et al., 2009; Havens & Beaver, 2010; Lacerot, 2010; Sosnovsky et al., 2010).”
Ecological impacts of excessive water level fluctuations in stratified freshwater lakes (2011, background): “…no refuge and less food resources than stones and boulders, which provide intermediate complexity, while diverse macrophyte assemblages and tree roots offer greater complexity and are inhabited by a greater diversity of life forms (Gasith and Gafny 1998, Meerhoff et al. 2007, Brauns et al. 2008).”
Biomanipulation as a restoration tool to combat eutrophication : recent advances and future challenges (2012, background): “…hypothesis of higher fish predation as a key factor in shaping the zooplankton size structure in warm lakes (Fernando, 2002; Jeppesen et al., 2007; Meerhoff et al., 2007a,b), occurrence of large Daphnia spp. in subtropical lakes, has been associated with the absence of fish (Iglesias et al.,…”
Macrophytes as refuge or risky area for zooplankton: a balance set by littoral predacious macroinvertebrates (2009, background): “A comparison of warm and temperate lakes showed that DHM occurred only in cold temperate lakes (Danish lakes) (Meerhoff et al., 2007a,b).”
Ecological and socio-economic impacts of invasive water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes): a review (2010, background): “heterogeneity that likely affects fish assemblages (Meerhoff et al., 2007).”
Effects of structural heterogeneity provided by the floating macrophyte Eichhornia azurea on the predation efficiency and habitat use of the small Neotropical fish Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae (2009, background): “…Brendonck et al., 2003; Meerhoff et al., 2006, 2007b; Iglesias et al., 2008) have suggested that free-floating macrophytes do not play an important role as refuges for large zooplankton (e.g., cladocerans); however, they may be particularly important for macroinvertebrates (Meerhoff et al., 2007a).”
Impacts of climate warming on lake fish community structure and potential effects on ecosystem function (2010, background): “Similarly, in a comparative study of fish community structure and dynamics in plant beds between subtropical and temperate shallow lakes (Meerhoff et al., 2007a; Teixeira-de Mello et al., 2009), the subtropical littoral fish communities had a substantially lower proportion of potential piscivores…”