Condition assessment is commonly practiced by fisheries personnel as one tool for
evaluating fish populations and communities. Several noninvasive condition measures are …

Scientists rely on food webs—complex networks that trace the flow of nutrients and energy
between species and through ecosystems—to understand the infrastructure of ecological …

Fisheries managers are likely to assess fish populations at some point during the fisheries
management process. Managers that follow the fisheries management process (see …

We investigated how watershed land use (a gradient of agricultural vs. forested land) relates
to phytoplankton primary production (PPr) and photosynthetic parameters in 12 reservoirs in …

Animals can be important in nutrient cycling in particular ecosystems, but few studies have
examined how this importance varies along environmental gradients. In this study we …

Ecologists increasingly recognize the need to understand how landscapes and food webs
interact. Reservoir ecosystems are heavily subsidized by nutrients and detritus from …

We examined the role of the omnivorous fish, gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum), in
transporting nutrients from sediments into the water column and their subsequent impacts on …

We examined diet patterns of omnivorous gizzard shad Dorosoma cepedianum in Acton
Lake, Ohio, during 1994-1997 using a multiple stable isotope analysis to quantify the role of …

This document is organized into an introduction and 13 sections. Section 1 is based on a
nationwide survey of reservoir habitats completed by the Reservoir Fisheries Habitat …

Population characteristics of gizzard shad Dorosoma cepedianum were examined in 14
Missouri reservoirs to determine if they were related to reservoir productivity (chlorophyll-a …