The hydraulic description of vegetated river channels: the weaknesses of existing formulations and emerging alternatives

TI Marjoribanks, RJ Hardy… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, many of the methods used to predict the effect of vegetation on river flow suffer
from one or both of the following problems:(1) a strong dependence on parameters that have …

Molecular diet analysis reveals predator–prey community dynamics and environmental factors affecting predation of larval lake sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens in a …

JM Waraniak, EA Baker, KT Scribner - Journal of Fish Biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study utilized molecular tools to quantify the prevalence of predation during the
vulnerable drifting larval life‐history stage of lake sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens. How …

Tethering mobile aquatic organisms to measure predation: A renewed call for caution

R Baker, N Waltham - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2020 - Elsevier
Tethering experiments are one of the few approaches available to ecologists to assess
predation rates in aquatic environments, and they have provided important insights into the …

Variation in seagrass-associated macroinvertebrate communities along the Gulf Coast of peninsular Florida: an exploration of patterns and ecological consequences

SC Barry, AC Hyman, CA Jacoby… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Seagrasses form vast meadows of structurally complex habitat that support faunal
communities with greater numbers of species and individuals than nearby unstructured …

Replacement of rooted macrophytes by filamentous macroalgae: effects on small fishes and macroinvertebrates

EV Camp, CL Staudhammer, WE Pine, JC Tetzlaff… - Hydrobiologia, 2014 - Springer
In aquatic environments around the globe, rooted macrophytes have been replaced by
filamentous macroalgae. The consequences of such shifts in vegetative habitat for fauna are …

Behavioral Variation in the Pygmy Halfbeak Dermogenys collettei: Comparing Shoals With Contrasting Ecologies

A Devigili, E Fernlund Isaksson… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Variation in biotic and abiotic factors among populations affects individual behaviors by
transforming the social landscape and shaping mating systems. Consequently, describing …

Influence of habitat complexity on the prey mortality in IGP system involving insect predators (Heteroptera) and prey (Diptera): Implications in biological control

S Brahma, D Sharma, S Banerjee, GK Saha, G Aditya - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Intraguild predation (IGP) is common in the freshwater insect communities, involving a top
predator, intraguild prey (IG prey) and a shared prey. Influence of the habitat complexity on …

Effects of artificial submersed vegetation on consumption and growth of mandarin fish Siniperca chuatsi (Basilewsky) foraging on live prey

Y Ren, M Xiong, J Yu, W Li, B Li, J Liu… - Journal of Freshwater …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Mandarin fish Siniperca chuatsi (Basilewsky) is a commercially important
aquaculture species, mainly cultured in Chinese ponds and only fed live fish. We evaluated …

Predation risk for crayfish differs between drought and nondrought conditions

PJ Wolff, CA Taylor, EJ Heske… - Freshwater …, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Predation risk for aquatic prey is affected by habitat characteristics and the predator
community. Relative predation risk for aquatic prey from terrestrial and aquatic predators …

Assessing predation risks for small fish in a large river ecosystem between contrasting habitats and turbidity conditions

MJ Dodrill - The American Midland Naturalist, 2016 - BioOne
This study examined predation risk for juvenile native fish between two riverine shoreline
habitats, backwater and debris fan, across three discrete turbidity levels (low, intermediate …