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1. Mercury bioaccumulation in estuarine food webs

Author:
Brian Fry; Matthew M. Chumchal
Source:
Ecological applications 2012 v.22 no.2 pp. 606-623
ISSN:
1051-0761
Subject:
bioaccumulation; coasts; ecological restoration; epiphytes; estuaries; fish; fish communities; floodplains; food webs; freshwater; hydrogen; mercury; rivers; salinity; stable isotopes; submerged aquatic plants; Louisiana; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... We tested for unintended mercury contamination problems associated with estuarine floodplain restoration projects of the Louisiana coastal zone, USA. Barataria Bay and Breton Sound are two neighboring deltaic estuaries that were isolated by levees from the Mississippi River about 100 years ago. These estuaries recently have been reconnected to the nutrient‐rich Mississippi River, starting major ri ...
DOI:
10.1890/11-0921.1

2. An investigation of fish community and water quality compositions in an isolated side channel of the upper Mississippi River

Author:
Jason W. Crites; Quinton E. Phelps; Kathryn N.S. McCain; David P. Herzog; Robert A. Hrabik
Source:
Journal of freshwater ecology 2012 v.27 no.1 pp. 19-29
ISSN:
2156-6941
Subject:
anaerobic conditions; biochemical oxygen demand; chlorophyll; fish; fish communities; functional diversity; gears; microbial growth; nitrogen content; oxygen; phosphorus; rivers; species diversity; summer; surface water; water quality; water temperature; winter; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Varying degrees of connectivity between side channels and the main river channel are vital for sustainable ecological processes and functions for both aquatic and terrestrial communities. Within the Mississippi River, restoring side channel functional diversity is a top priority for many natural resource agencies. Buffalo Chute, located at river kilometer 41, is one of the several side channels, i ...
DOI:
10.1080/02705060.2011.599988

3. Basins for Fish and Ecoregions for Macroinvertebrates: Different Spatial Scales Are Needed to Assess Louisiana Wadeable Streams

Author:
Michael D. Kaller; Catherine E. Murphy; William E. Kelso; Mark R. Stead
Source:
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 2013 v.142 no.3 pp. 767-782
ISSN:
1548-8659
Subject:
United States Environmental Protection Agency; alluvial plains; basins; coastal plains; community structure; ecoregions; fish; fish communities; macroinvertebrates; rivers; streams; terraces; variance; watersheds; Gulf of Mexico; Louisiana; Mississippi; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... We targeted wadeable streams in six USEPA Level III ecoregions spanning eight major study basins in northern Gulf of Mexico coastal plains and terraces to identify appropriate spatial frameworks for the assessment of stream quality, as well as fish species and macroinvertebrate families that were characteristic of least disturbed conditions. We analyzed previously collected (1990–2006) and recentl ...
DOI:
10.1080/00028487.2013.768547

4. Habitat and hydrology condition indices for the upper Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers

Author:
Debra L. Taylor; David W. Bolgrien; Ted R. Angradi; Mark S. Pearson; Brian H. Hill
Source:
Ecological indicators 2013 v.29 pp. 111-124
ISSN:
1470-160X
Subject:
air; channelization; fish; fish communities; habitats; rivers; streams; surveys; Mississippi; Mississippi River; Missouri; Missouri River; Ohio; Ohio River
Abstract:
... Habitat and hydrology indices were developed to assess the conditions in reaches of the impounded Mississippi river, the Fort Peck and Garrison reaches of the upper Missouri river, the Missouri National Recreational river (MNRR), the channelized lower Missouri river, and the Ohio river. Data were obtained from field sampling, air photo interpretation, and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) hydrologic r ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.01.001

5. Fish Assemblage and Ecosystem Metabolism Responses to Reconnection of the Bird's Point‐New Madrid Floodway during the 2011 Mississippi River Flood

Author:
H. Rantala; D. Glover; J. Garvey; Q. Phelps; S. Tripp; D. Herzog; R. Hrabik; J. Crites; M. Whiles
Source:
River research and applications 2016 v.32 no.5 pp. 1018-1029
ISSN:
1535-1459
Subject:
Aplodinotus grunniens; Dorosoma cepedianum; Ictalurus punctatus; United States Army Corps of Engineers; community structure; ecological function; ecosystems; fish; fish communities; fish production; floodplains; hydrochemistry; indigenous species; metabolism; planning; pollution load; primary productivity; rivers; spring; temperature; watersheds; Gulf of Mexico; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Understanding the ecological function of developed large rivers remains elusive because these systems have long been altered for multiple uses. In particular, floodplains of large rivers, such as the Mississippi River, have been contained behind extensive levees. A historic flood occurred in the lower Mississippi River system during spring of 2011, prompting the US Army Corps of Engineers to activ ...
DOI:
10.1002/rra.2932

6. Fish Associations among Un‐notched, Notched and L‐head Dikes in the Middle Mississippi River

Author:
Andrew P. Braun; Molly J. Sobotka; Quinton E. Phelps
Source:
River research and applications 2016 v.32 no.4 pp. 804-811
ISSN:
1535-1459
Subject:
United States Geological Survey; community structure; fish; fish communities; habitats; industry; lotic systems; monitoring; multidimensional scaling; natural resources conservation; rivers; transportation; water flow; water quality; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Wing dikes and other anthropogenic modifications have heavily altered riverine ecosystems. Recent efforts to reach a compromise between the needs of the river transportation industry and natural resource conservation include dike modification. Dike notching permits water flow through the landward portion of the dike and has been purported to provide suitable habitat for fish and other river biota ...
DOI:
10.1002/rra.2892

7. Patchiness in a Large Floodplain River: Associations Among Hydrology, Nutrients, and Fish Communities

Author:
N. R. De Jager; J. N. Houser
Source:
River research and applications 2016 v.32 no.9 pp. 1915-1926
ISSN:
1535-1459
Subject:
biodiversity; biogeochemistry; biogeography; community structure; data collection; fish; fish communities; floodplains; habitats; nitrogen; nutrient content; nutrients; phosphorus; rheophilic species; rivers; water flow; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Large floodplain rivers have internal structures shaped by directions and rates of water movement. In a previous study, we showed that spatial variation in local current velocities and degrees of hydrological exchange creates a patch‐work mosaic of nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and ratios in the Upper Mississippi River. Here, we used long‐term fish and limnological data sets to test the h ...
DOI:
10.1002/rra.3026

8. Long‐Term Fish Monitoring in Large Rivers: Utility of “Benchmarking” across Basins

Author:
David L. Ward; Andrew F. Casper; Timothy D. Counihan; Jennifer M. Bayer; Ian R. Waite; John J. Kosovich; Colin G. Chapman; Elise R. Irwin; Jennifer S. Sauer; Brian S. Ickes; Alexa J. McKerrow
Source:
Fisheries 2017 v.42 no.2 pp. 100-114
ISSN:
0363-2415
Subject:
basins; biologists; business enterprises; case studies; fish; fish communities; managers; monitoring; rivers; watersheds; Colorado; Colorado River; Columbia River; Illinois River; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... In business, benchmarking is a widely used practice of comparing your own business processes to those of other comparable companies and incorporating identified best practices to improve performance. Biologists and resource managers designing and conducting monitoring programs for fish in large river systems tend to focus on single river basins or segments of large rivers, missing opportunities to ...
DOI:
10.1080/03632415.2017.1276330

9. Commercial Fisheries of the Upper Mississippi River: A Century of Sustained Harvest

Author:
Zachary B. Klein; Michael C. Quist; Leandro E. Miranda; Michelle M. Marron; Michael J. Steuck; Kirk A. Hansen
Source:
Fisheries 2018 v.43 no.12 pp. 563-574
ISSN:
0363-2415
Subject:
fish; fish communities; freshwater; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Commercial harvest is often considered as a primary cause of fish population declines in marine and inland systems throughout the world. However, much of the data supporting the negative attributes of commercial harvest are derived from marine fisheries and may not be directly applicable to inland fisheries. In this study, over 60 years of commercial fishery data from the Upper Mississippi River ( ...
DOI:
10.1002/fsh.10176

10. Discontinuities and functional resilience of large river fish assemblages

Author:
Kristen L. Bouska
Source:
Ecosphere 2018 v.9 no.7 pp. e02351
ISSN:
2150-8925
Subject:
body size; ecosystems; fish; fish communities; habitats; population size; rivers; spawning; species abundance; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Functional composition of communities across scales is increasingly used to infer resilience of biotic communities to environmental change. To assess the relevance of these concepts to management of large rivers, analyses were applied to fish community data of the Upper Mississippi River. First, to evaluate whether there was evidence for structural patterns in fish size distributions, a discontinu ...
DOI:
10.1002/ecs2.2351

11. Survival of fish passing downstream at a small hydropower facility

Author:
Stephen V. Amaral; Benjamin S. Coleman; Jenna L. Rackovan; Kelly Withers; Benjamin Mater
Source:
Marine & freshwater research 2018 v.69 no.12 pp. 1870-1881
ISSN:
1323-1650
Subject:
dams (hydrology); fish; fish communities; fluid mechanics; habitats; migratory behavior; probability; spillways; survival rate; water power; Mississippi River; United States
Abstract:
... Hydropower dams can negatively affect upstream and downstream migratory fish populations in many ways, such as blocking access to upstream habitats and causing injuries or mortality during downstream passage. For downstream passage at projects in the USA, federal regulators and agencies responsible for oversight of hydropower facilities typically require assessment studies and mitigation to addres ...
DOI:
10.1071/MF18123

12. Tracking the Trajectory of Change in Large River Fish Communities Over 50 Y

Author:
Andrya L. Whitten; Daniel K. Gibson-Reinemer
Source:
American midland naturalist 2018 v.180 no.1 pp. 98-107
ISSN:
0003-0031
Subject:
Hypophthalmichthys molitrix; Hypophthalmichthys nobilis; data analysis; data collection; fish; fish communities; monitoring; multidimensional scaling; multivariate analysis; rivers; temporal variation; water quality; Illinois; Illinois River; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Multivariate statistics are commonly used by ecologists to study spatial and temporal community dynamics to better inform management decisions. Since these methods are a universal tool to analyze data, it is important to assess their effectiveness using long-term datasets in well-studied systems. The objectives of this study were to identify trends in the fish communities and to characterize the c ...
DOI:
10.1674/0003-0031-180.1.98

13. Applying concepts of general resilience to large river ecosystems: A case study from the Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers

Author:
Kristen L. Bouska; Jeffrey N. Houser; Nathan R. De Jager; Molly Van Appledorn; James T. Rogala
Source:
Ecological indicators 2019 v.101 pp. 1094-1110
ISSN:
1470-160X
Subject:
aquatic habitat; case studies; ecosystems; environmental indicators; fish; fish communities; floodplains; functional diversity; invasive species; nutrient content; rivers; water quality; Illinois River; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Large floodplain-river ecosystems are often highly modified to provide services that society desires, yet these modifications can limit an ecosystem’s ability to adapt to changing conditions. The adaptive capacity of an ecosystem, its general resilience, is a conceptual framework for considering how a system will respond to such changes. We sought to apply aspects of three general resilience princ ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.02.002

14. Interactive effects of hydrogeomorphology on fish community structure in a large floodplain river

Author:
Michael D. Delong; Martin C. Thoms; Ethan Sorenson
Source:
Ecosphere 2019 v.10 no.5 pp. e02731
ISSN:
2150-8925
Subject:
community structure; ecosystems; environmental factors; fish; fish communities; floodplains; habitats; hydrology; lakes; landscapes; models; rivers; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Biocomplexity is an emergent property of ecosystems that captures the interplay of structures and processes at multiple scales. These interactions can establish a dynamic habitat template that serves as a filter to define ecological organization across landscapes. Studies of biocomplexity in floodplain rivers typically focus on hydrological variability or geomorphic heterogeneity separately, with ...
DOI:
10.1002/ecs2.2731

15. Natal environments of age‐0 paddlefish in the middle Mississippi River inferred from dentary microchemistry

Author:
Neil P. Rude; Gregory W. Whitledge
Source:
River research and applications 2019 v.35 no.9 pp. 1554-1562
ISSN:
1535-1459
Subject:
adults; fish; fish communities; habitats; juveniles; riparian areas; rivers; spawning; Illinois; Mississippi; Mississippi River; Missouri; Missouri River
Abstract:
... Effective management and conservation of riverine fish species relies on identification of habitats that contribute recruits to fish populations. Paddlefish are an important commercial and recreational species inhabiting North American large rivers. However, despite the knowledge of adult paddlefish movement patterns in large rivers, their principal natal environments and early life dispersal patt ...
DOI:
10.1002/rra.3526

16. Bluegill Habitat Use in the Upper Mississippi River

Author:
Ethan A. Rutledge; Ryan N. Hupfeld; Colby G. Gainer; Hae H. Kim; Quinton E. Phelps
Source:
Natural areas journal 2020 v.40 no.4 pp. 355-361
ISSN:
0885-8608
Subject:
Lepomis macrochirus; channelization; coal; fish; fish communities; floodplains; habitat preferences; indicator species; indigenous species; microhabitats; wildlife; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Anthropogenic modifications to the environment have had damaging effects on the wildlife that depend on those natural ecosystems. Specific to Upper Mississippi River fishes, channelization, dams, and loss of floodplain connectivity have all been purported as deleterious. In the face of these habitat modifications, understanding habitat requirements of native species is needed to help guide managem ...
DOI:
10.3375/043.040.0408

17. Decadal trends and ecological shifts in backwater lakes of a large floodplain river: Upper Mississippi River

Author:
Robert M. Burdis; Steven A. DeLain; Eric M. Lund; Megan J. C. Moore; Walter A. Popp
Source:
Aquatic sciences 2020 v.82 no.2 pp. 27
ISSN:
1015-1621
Subject:
community structure; environmental factors; fish; fish communities; floodplains; lakes; macrophytes; phytoplankton; rivers; summer; suspended sediment; turbidity; vegetation; water quality; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Shallow lakes are typically found in one of two stable states, a macrophyte-dominated clear water state or a turbid state due to excessive phytoplankton and suspended sediment. Whether shallow backwater lakes in large river floodplains exhibit similar alternate stable states is less understood. This study considers mechanisms, interactions and feedbacks associated with a shift in environmental con ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00027-020-0703-7

18. Environmental DNA metabarcoding as a tool for biodiversity assessment and monitoring: reconstructing established fish communities of north‐temperate lakes and rivers

Author:
Peter T. Euclide; Yer Lor; Michael J. Spear; Tariq Tajjioui; Jake Vander Zanden; Wesley A. Larson; Jon J. Amberg
Source:
Diversity & distributions 2021 v.27 no.10 pp. 1966-1980
ISSN:
1366-9516
Subject:
DNA barcoding; biodiversity; community structure; discriminant analysis; environmental DNA; filtration; fish; fish communities; freshwater; genes; habitats; mitochondria; substrate specificity; surface water; Mississippi River; North America
Abstract:
... AIM: To evaluate the ability of precipitation‐based environmental DNA (eDNA) sample collection and mitochondrial 12S metabarcoding sequencing to reconstruct well‐studied fish communities in lakes and rivers. Specific objectives were to 1) determine correlations between eDNA species detections and known community composition based on conventional field sampling, 2) compare efficiency of eDNA to det ...
DOI:
10.1111/ddi.13253

19. Evidence of alternative trophic pathways for fish consumers in a large river system in the face of invasion

Author:
John V. Gatto; Brian S. Ickes; John H. Chick
Source:
River research and applications 2022 v.38 no.7 pp. 1321-1332
ISSN:
1535-1459
Subject:
detritivores; fish; fish communities; functional diversity; models; research; rivers; time series analysis; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Large rivers are susceptible to anthropogenic alteration, which can result in drastic changes to their functional ecology. We evaluated spatial–temporal changes in the functional fish communities of the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) using data from six study reaches. Species were classified into one of 14 feeding guilds and mass per unit effort (MPUE) was then calculated for each feeding g ...
DOI:
10.1002/rra.3992