Implications for the use of sedimentary invertebrate communities to infer past presence of fish
We investigated surface sediment assemblages of invertebrates from nine shallow lakes in southern Finland and assessed the relationship between invertebrate assemblages and fish status at local scale for the purpose of paleolimnological food-web studies. Invertebrate-ba...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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EDP Sciences
2010-07-01
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| Series: | Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/kmae/2010016 |
| Summary: | We investigated surface sediment assemblages of invertebrates from nine shallow lakes in
southern Finland and assessed the relationship between invertebrate assemblages and fish
status at local scale for the purpose of paleolimnological food-web studies.
Invertebrate-based cluster analysis separated the fish-free lakes into their own group and
the results also showed a strong and statistically significant relationship between fish
status and faunal sedimentary assemblages. The present results from the local data set
indicate good potential for developing quantitative invertebrate-based paleolimnological
fish status models in the future. However, for the implementation of the models
substantially more lakes with different fish status need to be examined that the effect of
fish predation on invertebrate communities can be separated from other limnological
forcing mechanisms. |
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| ISSN: | 1961-9502 |