EFFECTS OF FISHES ON ALGAL RESPONSE TO STORMS IN ATROPICAL STREAM
EFFECTS OF FISHES ON ALGAL RESPONSE TO STORMS IN ATROPICAL STREAM
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鱼类对热带河流中藻类对风暴反应的影响
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1997
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通讯作者:
T. Hamazaki
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作者:
C. Pringle;T. Hamazaki
We examined how biotic factors (natural assemblages of omnivorous fishes) control the community response of primary producers to physical disturbance (frequent high discharge events) in a lowland tropical stream. As a secondary objective, we assessed effects of fishes on benthic insects. We used electric “fences” to exclude access of fishes to benthic communities in a riffle of a fourth-order stream draining the foothills on Costa Rica’s Caribbean slope. Benthic algae and aquatic insects accessible to fishes were subject to intense omnivory by a diverse assemblage of fishes. Over a 7-wk period in the rainy season, three large discharge events occurred in which water levels rose up to 3 m above base flow, discharge increased by up to 160-fold, and suspended gravel and small cobbles caused major scouring. Fishes significantly affected algal succession, community composition, and response to high discharge events. Algal assemblages that developed in the presence of fishes were dominated by filamentous blue-g...