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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Conceptualizing alternate regimes in a large floodplain-river ecosystem: Water clarity, invasive fish, and floodplain vegetation

Author:
Kristen L. Bouska; Jeffrey N. Houser; Nathan R. De Jager; Deanne C. Drake; Scott F. Collins; Daniel K. Gibson-Reinemer; Meredith A. Thomsen
Source:
Journal of environmental management 2020 v.264 pp. 110516
ISSN:
0301-4797
Subject:
ecological resilience; fish communities; floodplains; indigenous species; invasive species; lentic systems; meadows; model validation; natural resource management; water quality; wetlands; Illinois River; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Regime shifts - persistent changes in the structure and function of an ecosystem - are well-documented for some ecosystems and have informed research and management of these ecosystems. In floodplain-river ecosystems, there is growing interest from restoration practitioners in ecological resilience, yet regime shifts remain poorly understood in these ecosystems. To understand how regime shifts may ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110516

6. 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

7. Influence of a high‐head dam as a dispersal barrier to fish community structure of the Upper Mississippi River

Author:
Rebekah L. Anderson; Cory A. Anderson; James H. Larson; Brent Knights; Jon Vallazza; Sean E. Jenkins; James T. Lamer
Source:
River research and applications 2020 v.36 no.1 pp. 47-56
ISSN:
1535-1459
Subject:
Alosa; community structure; dams (hydrology); fish communities; herring; invasive species; migratory species; rivers; streams; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... In river systems, high‐head dams may increase the distance‐decay of fish community similarity by creating nearly impermeable dispersal barriers to certain species from upstream reaches. Substantial evidence suggests that migratory species are impacted by dams, and most previous studies in stream/river networks have focused on small streams and headwaters. Here, we assess whether a high‐head dam (L ...
DOI:
10.1002/rra.3534

8. 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

9. Habitat use and population structure of the shoal chub (Macrhybopsis hyostoma) in the upper Mississippi River basin

Author:
Sarah Gaughan; Kirk Steffensen; Guoqing Lu
Source:
Environmental biology of fishes 2019 v.102 no.6 pp. 901-914
ISSN:
0378-1909
Subject:
Macrhybopsis; adults; anatomy and morphology; diet; fish communities; genetic variation; genomics; gravel; gravid females; habitat destruction; habitat preferences; habitats; indigenous species; insectivores; juveniles; population structure; rivers; sand; spawning; streams; surveys; watersheds; Illinois; Mississippi River; Missouri; Nebraska
Abstract:
... Anthropogenic alterations of river systems may have a profound effect on native fish community and habitat use; however, it’s difficult to understand the extent of these impacts without establishing well-defined habitat preferences. We investigated the Shoal chub, Macrhybopsis hyostoma, a native obligate river species from nine sampling locations in the upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB). Field ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10641-019-00878-3

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Intensive Sampling Reveals Underreported Use of Great-River Tributaries by Large-River Fishes in Missouri

Author:
Corey G. Dunn; Brandon L. Brooke; Robert A. Hrabik; Craig P. Paukert
Source:
Southeastern naturalist 2018 v.17 no.3 pp. 512-520
ISSN:
1528-7092
Subject:
Alosa alabamae; Cycleptus elongatus; Hybognathus placitus; Ichthyomyzon unicuspis; Macrhybopsis storeriana; Notropis; Pimephales vigilax; Polyodon spathula; Scaphirhynchus platorynchus; fish communities; habitats; herring; life history; rivers; surveys; uncertainty; watersheds; Mississippi River; Missouri
Abstract:
... Large tributaries may help sustain large-river fish populations by mitigating fish-habitat losses within the highly modified great rivers of the Mississippi River basin. These tributaries are likely most beneficial for fish species specializing on non-degraded large-river habitat for some portion of their life histories. Few great-river tributaries, however, have been surveyed using methods that c ...
DOI:
10.1656/058.017.0316

14. Long-term changes in fish community structure in relation to the establishment of Asian carps in a large floodplain river

Author:
Levi E. Solomon; Richard M. Pendleton; John H. Chick; Andrew F. Casper
Source:
Biological invasions 2016 v.18 no.10 pp. 2883-2895
ISSN:
1387-3547
Subject:
Ctenopharyngodon idella; Hypophthalmichthys molitrix; Hypophthalmichthys nobilis; Notropis atherinoides; carp; community structure; data collection; early development; ecological invasion; ecological restoration; ecosystems; fish communities; floodplains; gears; habitats; hydrology; introduced species; monitoring; plankton; rivers; Illinois River; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... The Upper Mississippi River System, including the Illinois River, has been invaded by a number of nonnative species including silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitirx and bighead carp H. nobilis, collectively referred to here as Asian carps. Silver carp densities in the Illinois River have increased dramatically and now represent some of the highest densities of wild silver carp anywhere in the wor ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10530-016-1180-8

15. 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

16. Competition among river planktivores: are native planktivores still fewer and skinnier in response to the Silver Carp invasion?

Author:
Richard M. Pendleton; Christopher Schwinghamer; Levi E. Solomon; Andrew F. Casper
Source:
Environmental biology of fishes 2017 v.100 no.10 pp. 1213-1222
ISSN:
0378-1909
Subject:
Dorosoma cepedianum; Hypophthalmichthys molitrix; Hypophthalmichthys nobilis; Ictiobus cyprinellus; biomass; body condition; carp; data collection; diet; fish communities; indigenous species; introduced species; life history; planktivores; population dynamics; rivers; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Planktivorous Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix and Bighead Carp H. nobilis have successfully invaded much of the Upper Mississippi River System and its tributaries during the last 30 years. During the initial years of the invasion, concurrent declines in the body condition and the catch per unit effort (CPUE) of planktivorous Gizzard Shad Dorosoma cepedianum and Bigmouth Buffalo Ictiobus cy ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10641-017-0637-7

17. 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:
1548-8446
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

18. 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

19. 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

20. Longitudinal Variation in the Ohio River Fish Community

Author:
Greg Seegert; Joe Vondruska; Elgin Perry; Doug Dixon
Source:
North American journal of fisheries management 2013 v.33 no.3 pp. 539-548
ISSN:
1548-8675
Subject:
Carpiodes carpio; Etheostoma; Morone saxatilis; Notropis; community health; data collection; dissolved oxygen; fauna; fish communities; habitats; minnows; models; power plants; rivers; silt; species diversity; turbidity; water temperature; Mississippi River; Ohio River
Abstract:
... The Ohio River fish community was sampled three times (June, August, and October) in 2005 by electrofishing near 17 power plants encompassing nearly the entire length of the Ohio River (river kilometer 82–1,527). Six 500-m zones were electrofished at each plant. Using a generalized additive model, we examined this data set of 306 electrofishing samples to determine how the abundance of 31 taxa var ...
DOI:
10.1080/02755947.2013.785990

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. Louisiana estuarine and coastal fisheries and habitats: perspectives from a fish's eye view

Author:
Edward J. Chesney; Donald M. Baltz; R. Glenn Thomas
Source:
Ecological applications 2000 v.10 no.2 pp. 350-366
ISSN:
1051-0761
Subject:
anthropogenic activities; coasts; environmental impact; estuaries; estuarine fish; fish communities; fisheries; flood control; habitats; hypoxia; marine ecosystems; nekton; nutrients; oils; rivers; saltwater intrusion; seafoods; wetlands; Gulf of Mexico; Louisiana; Mississippi River
Abstract:
... Stimulated by nutrients from the Mississippi River, the vast coastal wetlands of the river's past and present deltas interface with the Gulf of Mexico to form a complex and prolific marine ecosystem. This highly productive system has yielded annual fishery landings of >453.6 × 10⁶ kg (1 billion pounds) since 1969. The Louisiana ecosystem has been heavily exploited and significantly altered over th ...
DOI:
10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[0350:LEACFA]2.0.CO;2