Benthic invertebrate production—facilitating answers to ecological riddles in freshwater ecosystems

AC Benke, AD Huryn - Journal of the North American …, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
Invertebrate secondary production, or the formation of invertebrate biomass through time,
has been estimated in many freshwater benthic habitats. It has been a major research theme …

Production dynamics of riverine chironomids: extremely high biomass turnover rates of primary consumers

AC Benke - Ecology, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
A critical step in understanding food webs and trophic dynamics of communities is
quantification of the role of the primary consumers, and a major aspect of such quantification …

Littoral benthic macroinvertebrates under contrasting drawdown in a reservoir and a natural lake

PC Furey, RN Nordin… - Journal of the North …, 2006 - journals.uchicago.edu
Littoral benthic macroinvertebrate communities in lake reservoirs often are exposed to
repeated fluctuations in water level, but little is known of the effects of drawdown on benthic …

Implementation of a self-organizing map for investigation of impoundment impact on fish assemblages in a large, lowland river: Long-term study

T Penczak, A Kruk, W Galicka - Ecological modelling, 2012 - Elsevier
This fish community survey conducted in the impounded Warta River at a backwater (AB)
and a tailwater (CD) sites is a continuation of our former study (1985–2002). Similarly as the …

[PDF][PDF] Opportunistic feeding strategy as a factor promoting the expansion of racer goby (Neogobius gymnotrachelus Kessler, 1857) in the Vistula basin

J Kostrzewa, M Grabowski - Lauterbornia, 2003 - researchgate.net
The main goal of this preliminary study was to analyse the diet spectrum of racer goby (N.
gymnotrachelus), the most abundant gobiid invader in the Polish inland waters. That aspect …

Effects of damming a large lowland river on chironomids and fish assessed with the (multiplicative partitioning of) true/Hill biodiversity measure

Ł Głowacki, M Grzybkowska… - River research and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of a large lowland temperate zone reservoir on chironomid and fish biodiversity
was investigated in the same upstream (U) and downstream (D) sites on the same sampling …

Patterning of impoundment impact on chironomid assemblages and their environment with use of the self-organizing map (SOM)

T Penczak, A Kruk, M Grzybkowska, M Dukowska - Acta Oecologica, 2006 - Elsevier
The paper assesses the impact of the Jeziorsko dam reservoir on chironomid assemblages
and selected environmental factors in the Warta River, Poland, by means of patterns …

Effects of removal and regeneration of bankside vegetation on fish population dynamics in the Warta River, Poland

T Penczak - The Importance of Aquatic-Terrestrial Ecotones for …, 1995 - Springer
In March 1989 both banks of a 450 m section of the Warta River, 2 km above a reservoir,
were cleared of their riparian vegetation (osiers, willows and alders). In October 1988 17 fish …

Submersed aquatic macrophytes and associated fauna as an effect of dam operation on a large lowland river

M Grzybkowska, L Kucharski, M Dukowska… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
An atypical development of submersed aquatic macrophytes (SAM, mainly Stuckenia and
Potamogeton) in the large lowland alluvial Warta River (Poland) occurred annually as an …

The food resources exploitation by small-sized fish in a riverine macrophyte habitat

M Grzybkowska, M Dukowska, J Leszczyńska, J Lik… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
In an altered stretch of the lowland River Warta, central Poland, downstream of the Jeziorsko
Reservoir, patches of submersed aquatic macrophytes (SAM) are dependent on water …