Anthropogenic forcing leads to an abrupt shift to phytoplankton dominance in a shallow eutrophic lake

L King, M Devey, PR Leavitt, MJ Power… - Freshwater …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The timing and causes of lake eutrophication are often obscured when multiple
anthropogenic disturbances coincide in space and time. This issue is particularly …

Megadroughts pose mega‐risk to native fishes of the American Southwest

KB Gido, MJ Osborne, DL Propst, TF Turner… - Fisheries, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and a host of other human stressors on aquatic systems in the American
Southwest are rapidly exceeding our ability to conserve native fish diversity. The most …

Invasive predator diet plasticity has implications for native fish conservation and invasive species suppression

HC Glassic, CS Guy, LM Tronstad, DR Lujan… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Diet plasticity is a common behavior exhibited by piscivores to sustain predator biomass
when preferred prey biomass is reduced. Invasive piscivore diet plasticity could complicate …

Benefits of stocking fewer but larger individuals with implications for native fish recovery

DR Fonken, MM Conner, TE Walsworth… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Artificial propagation is commonly used to reduce extinction risk for native, imperiled fish
species. Thus, identifying stocking strategies that most effectively augment adult abundance …

Can intensive trapping to reduce the abundance of an invasive crayfish benefit an imperiled congener?

L Reisinger, N Tripp, A Atchia, S Bolds… - Aquatic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Management aimed at reducing the population sizes of established invasive species can be
beneficial for the conservation of native species. Crayfish are some of the most widespread …

Resilient and rapid recovery of native trout after removal of a non‐native trout

PE Budy, T Walsworth, GP Thiede… - … Science and Practice, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While the importance of reducing impacts of non‐native species is increasingly recognized
in conservation, the feasibility of such actions is highly dependent upon several key …

Identifying control intensities to overcome aquatic invader resilience across a range of ecosystem sizes

E Wallace, TE Walsworth - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Populations of invasive species continue to expand globally, causing extensive ecological
and economic damages and are thus frequently the focus of control efforts. To effectively …

Effects of sampling effort and data sources on precision of common carp and bigmouth buffalo population estimates

AR Annear, MA Simonson, PM Dixon, MJ Weber - Fisheries Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Biologists often manage abundant invasive Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) populations for
suppression below population density or biomass thresholds via commercial harvest that …

Primary production modeling identifies restoration targets for shifting shallow, eutrophic lakes to clear-water regimes

L King, J Brahney, S Daly, MJ Paul… - Freshwater …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Benthic primary production (BPP) plays an important functional role in lakes, improving
water quality by stabilizing clear-water regimes. Shallow, eutrophic lakes lacking BPP …

Intra‐Annual Variability of Common Carp and Bigmouth Buffalo Electrofishing Data in Shallow Lakes

AR Annear, MA Simonson, PM Dixon… - … American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Common Carp Cyprinus carpio and Bigmouth Buffalo Ictiobus cyprinellus are
widespread across the Midwest, where they can achieve high population densities in …