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Crapart C, Finstad AG, Hessen DO, Vogt RD, Andersen T. Spatial predictors and temporal forecast of total organic carbon levels in boreal lakes. Sci Total Environ 2023; 870:161676. [PMID: 36731567 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Revised: 12/21/2022] [Accepted: 01/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Browning of Fennoscandian boreal lakes is raising concerns for negative ecosystem impacts as well as reduced drinking water quality. Declined sulfur deposition and warmer climate, along with afforestation, other climate impacts and less outfield grazing, have resulted in increased fluxes of Total Organic Carbon (TOC) from catchments to freshwater, and subsequently to coastal waters. This study assesses the major governing factors for increased TOC levels among several catchment characteristics in almost 5000 Fennoscandian lakes and catchments. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), a proxy for plant biomass, and the proportions of peatland in the catchment, along with surface runoff intensity and nitrogen deposition loading, were identified as the main spatial predictors for lake TOC concentrations. A multiple linear model, based on these explanatory variables, was used to simulate future TOC concentration in surface runoff from coastal drainage basins in 2050 and 2100, using the forecasts of climatic variables in two of the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSP): 1-2.6 (+2 °C) and 3-7.0 (+4,5 °C). These scenarios yield contrasting effects. SSP 1-2.6 predicts an overall decrease of TOC export to coastal waters, while SSP 3-7.0 in contrast leads to an increase in TOC export.
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- Camille Crapart
- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033, 0315 Oslo, Norway.
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- Department of Natural History, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences and Centre for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1066, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Økernveien 94, 0579 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences and Centre for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1066, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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Koch W, Hogeweg L, Nilsen EB, O’Hara RB, Finstad AG. Recognizability bias in citizen science photographs. R Soc Open Sci 2023; 10:221063. [PMID: 36756065 PMCID: PMC9890120 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.221063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Accepted: 01/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Citizen science and automated collection methods increasingly depend on image recognition to provide the amounts of observational data research and management needs. Recognition models, meanwhile, also require large amounts of data from these sources, creating a feedback loop between the methods and tools. Species that are harder to recognize, both for humans and machine learning algorithms, are likely to be under-reported, and thus be less prevalent in the training data. As a result, the feedback loop may hamper training mostly for species that already pose the greatest challenge. In this study, we trained recognition models for various taxa, and found evidence for a 'recognizability bias', where species that are more readily identified by humans and recognition models alike are more prevalent in the available image data. This pattern is present across multiple taxa, and does not appear to relate to differences in picture quality, biological traits or data collection metrics other than recognizability. This has implications for the expected performance of future models trained with more data, including such challenging species.
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- Wouter Koch
- Department of Natural History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
- Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre, Havnegata 9, 7010 Trondheim, Norway
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- Intel Benelux, High Tech Campus 83, 5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Postboks 5685 Torgarden, 7485 Trondheim, Norway
- Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University, Steinkjer, Norway
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Natural History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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Koch W, Elven H, Finstad AG. Clavis: An open and versatile identification key format. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0277752. [PMID: 36454899 PMCID: PMC9714862 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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The skills and knowledge needed to recognize and classify taxa are becoming increasingly scarce in the scientific community. At the same time, it is clear that these skills are strongly needed in biodiversity monitoring for management and conservation, especially when carried out by citizen scientists. Formalizing the required knowledge in the form of digital identification keys is one way of making such knowledge more available for professional and amateur observers of biodiversity. In this paper we describe Clavis, an open and versatile data format for capturing the knowledge required for taxon identification through digital keys, allowing for a level of detail beyond that of any current key format. We present the format independently from any particular implementation, as our aim is for Clavis to serve as a basis for interoperable tools and interfaces serving different needs and actors.
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- Wouter Koch
- Department of Natural History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre, Trondheim, Norway
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- Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Natural History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Speed JDM, Evankow AM, Petersen TK, Ranke PS, Nilsen NH, Turner G, Aagaard K, Bakken T, Davidsen JG, Dunshea G, Finstad AG, Hassel K, Husby M, Hårsaker K, Koksvik JI, Prestø T, Vange V. A regionally coherent ecological fingerprint of climate change, evidenced from natural history collections. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e9471. [PMID: 36340816 PMCID: PMC9627063 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2022] [Revised: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 10/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Climate change has dramatic impacts on ecological systems, affecting a range of ecological factors including phenology, species abundance, diversity, and distribution. The breadth of climate change impacts on ecological systems leads to the occurrence of fingerprints of climate change. However, climate fingerprints are usually identified across broad geographical scales and are potentially influenced by publication biases. In this study, we used natural history collections spanning over 250 years, to quantify a range of ecological responses to climate change, including phenology, abundance, diversity, and distributions, across a range of taxa, including vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, and fungi, within a single region, Central Norway. We tested the hypotheses that ecological responses to climate change are apparent and coherent at a regional scale, that longer time series show stronger trends over time and in relation to temperature, and that ecological responses change in trajectory at the same time as shifts in temperature. We identified a clear regional coherence in climate signal, with decreasing abundances of limnic zooplankton (on average by 7691 individuals m-3 °C-1) and boreal forest breeding birds (on average by 1.94 territories km-2 °C-1), and earlier plant flowering phenology (on average 2 days °C-1) for every degree of temperature increase. In contrast, regional-scale species distributions and species diversity were largely stable. Surprisingly, the effect size of ecological response did not increase with study duration, and shifts in responses did not occur at the same time as shifts in temperature. This may be as the long-term studies include both periods of warming and temperature stability, and that ecological responses lag behind warming. Our findings demonstrate a regional climate fingerprint across a long timescale. We contend that natural history collections provide a unique window on a broad spectrum of ecological responses at timescales beyond most ecological monitoring programs. Natural history collections are thus an essential source for long-term ecological research.
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- James D. M. Speed
- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
- Natural History MuseumUniversity of OsloOsloNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
- Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of BiologyNorwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)TrondheimNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
- Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of BiologyNorwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)TrondheimNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
- Section of ScienceNord UniversityLevangerNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
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- Department of Natural HistoryNTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway
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Eloranta AP, Kjærstad G, Power M, Lakka HK, Arnekleiv JV, Finstad AG. Impacts of piscicide-induced fish removal on resource use and trophic diversity of lake invertebrates. Sci Total Environ 2022; 835:155364. [PMID: 35469880 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2021] [Revised: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Chemical eradication of non-native species has become a widely used method to mitigate the potential negative impacts of altered competitive or predatory dynamics on biodiversity and natural ecosystem processes. However, the responses of non-target species can vary from rapid full recovery to delayed or absent recolonization, and little is known about the potential shifts in resource use and trophic diversity of native species following chemical treatments. We used a before-after-control-impact approach to study the effects of rotenone piscicide treatment on abundance and trophic niche of benthic invertebrates in three untreated and three treated lakes in central Norway, the latter group hosting non-native roach (Rutilus rutilus) and pike (Esox lucius) prior to rotenone treatment. Based on community composition data, the relative abundance of invertebrate grazers and collectors decreased while that of predators increased following fish removal in the treated lakes. The stable isotope data indicated minor shifts in resource use of, and trophic diversity among, benthic invertebrate communities. While the predatory dragonfly larvae (Odonata) and grazer snails (Lymnaeidae) showed increased δ13C values indicating increased reliance on littoral benthic algae, the collector mayfly larvae (Leptophlebia) showed decreased δ13C values following fish removal in treated lakes. Grazer snails also showed a shift to a lower trophic position, while the predatory dragonflies and collector mayflies showed no changes in δ15N values following fish removal. The community-level isotopic niches of benthic invertebrates showed no consistent changes, although the sample-size corrected and Bayesian estimates of standard ellipse areas (SEAC and SEAB) slightly increased in two of the three treated lakes due to an increased range in δ15N. In conclusion, our study findings indicate some changes in species assemblages but minor shifts in the resource use and trophic diversity of benthic invertebrate communities following fish removal in rotenone treated lakes.
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- Antti P Eloranta
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014, Finland; Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, P.O. Box 5685 Torgarden, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway.
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Erling Skakkes gate 47A, NO-7013 Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014, Finland; Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Erling Skakkes gate 47A, NO-7013 Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Erling Skakkes gate 47A, NO-7013 Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Erling Skakkes gate 47A, NO-7013 Trondheim, Norway
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Nilsson RH, Andersson AF, Bissett A, Finstad AG, Fossøy F, Grosjean M, Hope M, Jeppesen TS, Kõljalg U, Lundin D, Prager M, Suominen S, Svenningsen CS, Schigel D. Introducing guidelines for publishing DNA-derived occurrence data through biodiversity data platforms. MBMG 2022. [DOI: 10.3897/mbmg.6.84960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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DNA sequencing efforts of environmental and other biological samples disclose unprecedented and largely untapped opportunities for advances in the taxonomy, ecology, and geographical distributions of our living world. To realise this potential, DNA-derived occurrence data (notably sequences with dates and coordinates) – much like traditional specimens and observations – need to be discoverable and interpretable through biodiversity data platforms. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) recently headed a community effort to assemble a set of guidelines for publishing DNA-derived data. These guidelines target the principles and approaches of exposing DNA-derived occurrence data in the context of broader biodiversity data. They cover a choice of terms using a controlled vocabulary, common pitfalls, and good practices, without going into platform-specific details. Our hope is that they will benefit anyone interested in better exposure of DNA-derived occurrence data through general biodiversity data platforms, including national biodiversity portals. This paper provides a brief rationale and an overview of the guidelines, an up-to-date version of which is maintained at https://doi.org/10.35035/doc-vf1a-nr22. User feedback and interaction are encouraged as new techniques and best practices emerge.
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Presence-only biodiversity data are increasingly relied on in biodiversity, ecology, and conservation research, driven by growing digital infrastructures that support open data sharing and reuse. Recent reviews of open biodiversity data have clearly documented the value of data sharing, but the extent to which the biodiversity research community has adopted open data practices remains unclear. We address this question by reviewing applications of presence-only primary biodiversity data, drawn from a variety of sources beyond open databases, in the indexed literature. We characterize how frequently researchers access open data relative to data from other sources, how often they share newly generated or collated data, and trends in metadata documentation and data citation. Our results indicate that biodiversity research commonly relies on presence-only data that are not openly available and neglects to make such data available. Improved data sharing and documentation will increase the value, reusability, and reproducibility of biodiversity research.
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- Caitlin P Mandeville
- Department of Natural History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Natural History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University, Steinkjer, Norway
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- Department of Natural History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Eloranta AP, Finstad AG, Sandlund OT, Knudsen R, Kuparinen A, Amundsen PA. Species interactions, environmental gradients and body size shape population niche width. J Anim Ecol 2021; 91:154-169. [PMID: 34657292 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2021] [Accepted: 10/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Competition for shared resources is commonly assumed to restrict population-level niche width of coexisting species. However, the identity and abundance of coexisting species, the prevailing environmental conditions, and the individual body size may shape the effects of interspecific interactions on species' niche width. Here we study the effects of interspecific and intraspecific interactions, lake area and altitude, and fish body size on the trophic niche width and resource use of a generalist predator, the littoral-dwelling large, sparsely rakered morph of European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus; hereafter LSR whitefish). We use stable isotope, diet and survey fishing data from 14 subarctic lakes along an environmental gradient in northern Norway. The isotopic niche width of LSR whitefish showed a humped-shaped relationship with increasing relative abundance of sympatric competitors, suggesting widest population niche at intermediate intensity of interspecific interactions. The isotopic niche width of LSR whitefish tended to decrease with increasing altitude, suggesting reduced niche in colder, less productive lakes. LSR whitefish typically shifted to a higher trophic position and increased reliance on littoral food resources with increasing body size, although between-lake differences in ontogenetic niche shifts were evident. In most lakes, LSR whitefish relied less on littoral food resources than coexisting fishes and the niche overlap between sympatric competitors was most evident among relatively large individuals (>250 mm). Individual niche variation was highest among >200 mm long LSR whitefish, which likely have escaped the predation window of sympatric predators. We demonstrate that intermediate intensity of interspecific interactions may broaden species' niche width, whereas strong competition for limited resources and high predation risk may suppress niche width in less productive environments. Acknowledging potential humped-shaped relationships between population niche width and interspecific interactions can help us understand species' responses to environmental disturbance (e.g. climate change and species invasions) as well as the driving forces of niche specialization.
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- Antti P Eloranta
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.,Department of Aquatic Biodiversity, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Natural History, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Aquatic Biodiversity, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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Bærum KM, Finstad AG, Ulvan EM, Haugen TO. Population consequences of climate change through effects on functional traits of lentic brown trout in the sub-Arctic. Sci Rep 2021; 11:15246. [PMID: 34315914 PMCID: PMC8316365 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-94350-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 06/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Climate-induced plasticity in functional traits has received recent attention due to the immense importance phenotypic variation plays in population level responses. Here, we explore the effect of different climate-change scenarios on lentic populations of a freshwater ectotherm, the brown trout (Salmo trutta L.), through climate effects on functional traits. We first parameterize models of climate variables on growth, spawning probability and fecundity. The models are utilized to inform a dynamic age-structured projection matrix, enabling long-term population viability projections under climate and population density variation. Ambient temperature and winter conditions had a substantial effect on population growth rate. In general, warmer summer temperatures resulted in faster growth rates for young fish but ended in smaller size at age as fish got older. Increasing summer temperatures also induced maturation at younger age and smaller size. In addition, we found effects of first-year growth on later growth trajectories for a fish, indicating that environmental conditions experienced the first year will also influence size at age later in life. At the population level, increasing temperatures average (up to 4 °C increase in areas with mean summer temperature at approximately 12 °C) resulted in a positive effect on population growth rate (i.e. smaller but more fish) during climate simulations including increasing and more variable temperatures.
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- Kim Magnus Bærum
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Fakkelgården, 2624, Lillehammer, Norway.
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- Department of Natural History, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 7485, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P. O. Box 5003, NO-1432, Aas, Norway
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Mandeville CP, Finstad AG. Community science supports research on protected area resilience. Conservat Sci and Prac 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/csp2.442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- Caitlin P. Mandeville
- Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of Natural History Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway
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- Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of Natural History Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway
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Sandvik H, Hilmo O, Finstad AG, Hegre H, Moen TL, Rafoss T, Skarpaas O, Elven R, Sandmark H, Gederaas L. Generic ecological impact assessment of alien species (GEIAA): the third generation of assessments in Norway. Biol Invasions 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-019-02033-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Sundt-Hansen LE, Hedger RD, Ugedal O, Diserud OH, Finstad AG, Sauterleute JF, Tøfte L, Alfredsen K, Forseth T. Modelling climate change effects on Atlantic salmon: Implications for mitigation in regulated rivers. Sci Total Environ 2018; 631-632:1005-1017. [PMID: 29727927 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2017] [Revised: 03/05/2018] [Accepted: 03/06/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Climate change is expected to alter future temperature and discharge regimes of rivers. These regimes have a strong influence on the life history of most aquatic river species, and are key variables controlling the growth and survival of Atlantic salmon. This study explores how the future abundance of Atlantic salmon may be influenced by climate-induced changes in water temperature and discharge in a regulated river, and investigates how negative impacts in the future can be mitigated by applying different regulated discharge regimes during critical periods for salmon survival. A spatially explicit individual-based model was used to predict juvenile Atlantic salmon population abundance in a regulated river under a range of future water temperature and discharge scenarios (derived from climate data predicted by the Hadley Centre's Global Climate Model (GCM) HadAm3H and the Max Plank Institute's GCM ECHAM4), which were then compared with populations predicted under control scenarios representing past conditions. Parr abundance decreased in all future scenarios compared to the control scenarios due to reduced wetted areas (with the effect depending on climate scenario, GCM, and GCM spatial domain). To examine the potential for mitigation of climate change-induced reductions in wetted area, simulations were run with specific minimum discharge regimes. An increase in abundance of both parr and smolt occurred with an increase in the limit of minimum permitted discharge for three of the four GCM/GCM spatial domains examined. This study shows that, in regulated rivers with upstream storage capacity, negative effects of climate change on Atlantic salmon populations can potentially be mitigated by release of water from reservoirs during critical periods for juvenile salmon.
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- L E Sundt-Hansen
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, P.O. Box 5685, Sluppen 7485, Trondheim, Norway.
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, P.O. Box 5685, Sluppen 7485, Trondheim, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, P.O. Box 5685, Sluppen 7485, Trondheim, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, P.O. Box 5685, Sluppen 7485, Trondheim, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, P.O. Box 5685, Sluppen 7485, Trondheim, Norway; Department of Natural History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- SINTEF Energy Research, P.O. Box 4761, Sluppen 7465, Trondheim, Norway; SWECO, Professor Brochs gate 2, 7030 Trondheim, Norway
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- SINTEF Energy Research, P.O. Box 4761, Sluppen 7465, Trondheim, Norway
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- Norwegian Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, P.O. Box 5685, Sluppen 7485, Trondheim, Norway
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Speed JDM, Bendiksby M, Finstad AG, Hassel K, Kolstad AL, Prestø T. Contrasting spatial, temporal and environmental patterns in observation and specimen based species occurrence data. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0196417. [PMID: 29698441 PMCID: PMC5919666 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2017] [Accepted: 04/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Species occurrence data records the location and time of an encounter with a species, and is valuable for many aspects of ecological and evolutionary analyses. A key distinction within species occurrence data is between (1) collected and preserved specimens that can be taxonomically validated (i.e., natural history collections), and (2) observations, which are more error prone but richer in terms of number and spread of observations. In this study we analyse the distribution in temporal, spatial, taxonomic and environmental coverage of specimen- and observation based species occurrence data for land plants in Norway, a region with strong climatic and human population density gradients. Of 4.8 million species occurrence records, the majority (78%) were observations. However, there was a greater species richness in the specimen record (N = 4691) than in the observation record (N = 3193) and most species were recorded more as specimens than observations. Specimen data was on average older, and collected later during the year. Both record types were highly influenced by a small number of prolific contributors. The species most highly represented in the observation data set were widespread or invasive, while in the specimen records, taxonomically challenging species were overrepresented. Species occurrence records were unevenly spatially distributed. Both specimen and observation records were concentrated in regions of Norway with high human population density and with high temperatures and precipitation, but in different regions within Norway. Observation and specimen records thus differ in taxonomic, temporal, spatial and environmental coverage for a well-sampled group and study region, potentially influencing the ecological inferences made from studies utilizing species occurrence data. The distribution of observation data dominates the dataset, so inferences of species diversity and distributions do not correspond to the evolutionary or physiological knowledge of species, which is based on specimen data. We make recommendations for users of biodiversity data, and collectors to better exploit the complementary strengths of these distinct biodiversity data types.
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- James D. M. Speed
- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Eloranta AP, Finstad AG, Helland IP, Ugedal O, Power M. Hydropower impacts on reservoir fish populations are modified by environmental variation. Sci Total Environ 2018; 618:313-322. [PMID: 29131999 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2017] [Revised: 10/25/2017] [Accepted: 10/26/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Global transition towards renewable energy production has increased the demand for new and more flexible hydropower operations. Before management and stakeholders can make informed choices on potential mitigations, it is essential to understand how the hydropower reservoir ecosystems respond to water level regulation (WLR) impacts that are likely modified by the reservoirs' abiotic and biotic characteristics. Yet, most reservoir studies have been case-specific, which hampers large-scale planning, evaluation and mitigation actions across various reservoir ecosystems. Here, we investigated how the effect of the magnitude, frequency and duration of WLR on fish populations varies along environmental gradients. We used biomass, density, size, condition and maturation of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) in Norwegian hydropower reservoirs as a measure of ecosystem response, and tested for interacting effects of WLR and lake morphometry, climatic conditions and fish community structure. Our results showed that environmental drivers modified the responses of brown trout populations to different WLR patterns. Specifically, brown trout biomass and density increased with WLR magnitude particularly in large and complex-shaped reservoirs, but the positive relationships were only evident in reservoirs with no other fish species. Moreover, increasing WLR frequency was associated with increased brown trout density but decreased condition of individuals within the populations. WLR duration had no significant impacts on brown trout, and the mean weight and maturation length of brown trout showed no significant response to any WLR metrics. Our study demonstrates that local environmental characteristics and the biotic community strongly modify the hydropower-induced WLR impacts on reservoir fishes and ecosystems, and that there are no one-size-fits-all solutions to mitigate environmental impacts. This knowledge is vital for sustainable planning, management and mitigation of hydropower operations that need to meet the increasing worldwide demand for both renewable energy and ecosystem services delivered by freshwaters.
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- Antti P Eloranta
- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), P.O. Box 5685 Torgard, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway.
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), P.O. Box 5685 Torgard, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway; Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Erling Skakkes gate 47A, NO-7013 Trondheim, Norway.
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), P.O. Box 5685 Torgard, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway.
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), P.O. Box 5685 Torgard, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway.
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- Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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Finstad AG, Nilsen EB, Hendrichsen DK, Schmidt NM. Catchment vegetation and temperature mediating trophic interactions and production in plankton communities. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0174904. [PMID: 28414736 PMCID: PMC5393547 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2016] [Accepted: 03/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Climatic factors influence the interactions among trophic levels in an ecosystem in multiple ways. However, whereas most studies focus on single factors in isolation, mainly due to interrelation and correlation among drivers complicating interpretation and analyses, there are still only few studies on how multiple ecosystems respond to climate related factors at the same time. Here, we use a hierarchical Bayesian model with a bioenergetic predator-prey framework to study how different climatic factors affect trophic interactions and production in small Arctic lakes. Natural variation in temperature and catchment land-cover was used as a natural experiment to exemplify how interactions between and production of primary producers (phytoplankton) and grazers (zooplankton) are driven by direct (temperature) and indirect (catchment vegetation) factors, as well as the presence or absence of apex predators (fish). The results show that increased vegetation cover increased phytoplankton growth rate by mediating lake nutrient concentration. At the same time, increased temperature also increased grazing rates by zooplankton. Presence of fish increased zooplankton mortality rates, thus reducing grazing. The Arctic is currently experiencing an increase in both temperature and shrub vegetation cover due to climate change, a trend, which is likely to continue. Our results point towards a possible future general weakening of zooplankton grazing on phytoplankton and greening of arctic lakes with increasing temperatures. At the same time, the impact of the presence of an apex predator indicate considerable local variation in the response. This makes direction and strength of global change impacts difficult to forecast.
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- Anders G. Finstad
- Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway
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- Arctic Research Centre, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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Sánchez-Hernández J, Eloranta AP, Finstad AG, Amundsen PA. Community structure affects trophic ontogeny in a predatory fish. Ecol Evol 2016; 7:358-367. [PMID: 28070298 PMCID: PMC5214065 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2016] [Revised: 10/13/2016] [Accepted: 10/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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While most studies have focused on the timing and nature of ontogenetic niche shifts, information is scarce about the effects of community structure on trophic ontogeny of top predators. We investigated how community structure affects ontogenetic niche shifts (i.e., relationships between body length, trophic position, and individual dietary specialization) of a predatory fish, brown trout (Salmo trutta). We used stable isotope and stomach content analyses to test how functional characteristics of lake fish community compositions (competition and prey availability) modulate niche shifts in terms of (i) piscivorous behavior, (ii) trophic position, and (iii) individual dietary specialization. Northern Scandinavian freshwater fish communities were used as a study system, including nine subarctic lakes with contrasting fish community configurations: (i) trout‐only systems, (ii) two‐species systems (brown trout and Arctic charr [Salvelinus alpinus] coexisting), and (iii) three‐species systems (brown trout, Arctic charr, and three‐spined sticklebacks [Gasterosteus aculeatus] coexisting). We expected that the presence of profitable small prey (stickleback) and mixed competitor–prey fish species (charr) supports early piscivory and high individual dietary specialization among trout in multispecies communities, whereas minor ontogenetic shifts were expected in trout‐only systems. From logistic regression models, the presence of a suitable prey fish species (stickleback) emerged as the principal variable determining the size at ontogenetic niche shifts. Generalized additive mixed models indicated that fish community structure shaped ontogenetic niche shifts in trout, with the strongest positive relationships between body length, trophic position, and individual dietary specialization being observed in three‐species communities. Our findings revealed that the presence of a small‐sized prey fish species (stickleback) rather than a mixed competitor–prey fish species (charr) was an important factor affecting the ontogenetic niche‐shift processes of trout. The study demonstrates that community structure may modulate the ontogenetic diet trajectories of and individual niche specialization within a top predator.
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- Javier Sánchez-Hernández
- Department of Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology University of Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela Spain; Department of Arctic and Marine Biology UiT The Arctic University of Norway Tromsø Norway; Department of Natural History NTNU University Museum Trondheim Norway
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- Aquatic Ecology Department Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)Trondheim Norway; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä Finland
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- Department of Natural History NTNU University Museum Trondheim Norway; Aquatic Ecology Department Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)Trondheim Norway
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- Department of Arctic and Marine Biology UiT The Arctic University of Norway Tromsø Norway
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Finstad AG, Andersen T, Larsen S, Tominaga K, Blumentrath S, de Wit HA, Tømmervik H, Hessen DO. From greening to browning: Catchment vegetation development and reduced S-deposition promote organic carbon load on decadal time scales in Nordic lakes. Sci Rep 2016; 6:31944. [PMID: 27554453 PMCID: PMC4995398 DOI: 10.1038/srep31944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2016] [Accepted: 07/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Increased concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), often labelled “browning”, is a current trend in northern, particularly boreal, freshwaters. The browning has been attributed to the recent reduction in sulphate (S) deposition during the last 2 to 3 decades. Over the last century, climate and land use change have also caused an increasing trend in vegetation cover (“greening”), and this terrestrially fixed carbon represents another potential source for export of organic carbon to lakes and rivers. The impact of this greening on the observed browning of lakes and rivers on decadal time scales remains poorly investigated, however. Here, we explore time-series both on water chemistry and catchment vegetation cover (using NDVI as proxy) from 70 Norwegian lakes and catchments over a 30-year period. We show that the increase in terrestrial vegetation as well as temperature and runoff significantly adds to the reduced SO4-deposition as a driver of freshwater DOC concentration. Over extended periods (centuries), climate mediated changes in vegetation cover may cause major browning of northern surface waters, with severe impact on ecosystem productivity and functioning.
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- Anders G Finstad
- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway.,Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, P.O. Box 5685 Sluppen, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway
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- University of Oslo, Department of Biosciences, P.O. Box 1066, Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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- University of Oslo, Department of Biosciences, P.O. Box 1066, Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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- University of Oslo, Department of Biosciences, P.O. Box 1066, Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, P.O. Box 5685 Sluppen, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Gaustadalléen 21, NO-0349 Oslo, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, P.O. Box 5685 Sluppen, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway
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- University of Oslo, Department of Biosciences, P.O. Box 1066, Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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Eloranta AP, Helland IP, Sandlund OT, Hesthagen T, Ugedal O, Finstad AG. Community structure influences species’ abundance along environmental gradients. J Anim Ecol 2015; 85:273-82. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2015] [Accepted: 10/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Antti P. Eloranta
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA); P.O. Box 5685 Sluppen NO-7485 Trondheim Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA); P.O. Box 5685 Sluppen NO-7485 Trondheim Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA); P.O. Box 5685 Sluppen NO-7485 Trondheim Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA); P.O. Box 5685 Sluppen NO-7485 Trondheim Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA); P.O. Box 5685 Sluppen NO-7485 Trondheim Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA); P.O. Box 5685 Sluppen NO-7485 Trondheim Norway
- Department of Natural History; NTNU University Museum; Erling Skakkes gate 47A NO-7013 Trondheim Norway
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Finstad AG, Helland IP, Ugedal O, Hesthagen T, Hessen DO. Unimodal response of fish yield to dissolved organic carbon. Ecol Lett 2013; 17:36-43. [DOI: 10.1111/ele.12201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2013] [Revised: 09/20/2013] [Accepted: 09/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Anders G. Finstad
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research; P.O. 5685 Sluppen NO-7485 Trondheim Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research; P.O. 5685 Sluppen NO-7485 Trondheim Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research; P.O. 5685 Sluppen NO-7485 Trondheim Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research; P.O. 5685 Sluppen NO-7485 Trondheim Norway
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- Department of Bioscience; CEES; University of Oslo; P.O. Box 1066 Blindern NO-0316 Oslo Norway
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Teichert MAK, Einum S, Finstad AG, Ugedal O, Forseth T. Ontogenetic timing of density dependence: location-specific patterns reflect distribution of a limiting resource. POPUL ECOL 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s10144-013-0387-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Nilsen EB, Finstad AG, Næsje TF, Sverdrup-Thygeson A. Using mass scaling of movement cost and resource encounter rate to predict animal body size–Population density relationships. Theor Popul Biol 2013; 86:23-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2013.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2011] [Revised: 03/05/2013] [Accepted: 03/11/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Hedger RD, Næsje TF, Fiske P, Ugedal O, Finstad AG, Thorstad EB. Ice-dependent winter survival of juvenile Atlantic salmon. Ecol Evol 2013; 3:523-35. [PMID: 23532172 PMCID: PMC3605843 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2012] [Revised: 12/13/2012] [Accepted: 12/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Changes in snow and ice conditions are some of the most distinctive impacts of global warming in cold temperate and Arctic regions, altering the environment during a critical period for survival for most animals. Laboratories studies have suggested that reduced ice cover may reduce the survival of stream dwelling fishes in Northern environments. This, however, has not been empirically investigated in natural populations in large rivers. Here, we examine how the winter survival of juvenile Atlantic salmon in a large natural river, the River Alta (Norway, 70°N), is affected by the presence or absence of surface ice. Apparent survival rates for size classes corresponding to parr and presmolts were estimated using capture-mark-recapture and Cormack-Jolly-Seber models for an ice-covered and an ice-free site. Apparent survival (Φ) in the ice-covered site was greater than in the ice-free site, but did not depend on size class (0.64 for both parr and presmolt). In contrast, apparent survival in the ice-free site was lower for larger individuals (0.33) than smaller individuals (0.45). The over-winter decline in storage energy was greater for the ice-free site than the ice-covered site, suggesting that environmental conditions in the ice-free site caused a strong depletion in energy reserves likely affecting survival. Our findings highlight the importance of surface ice for the winter survival of juvenile fish, thus, underpinning that climate change, by reducing ice cover, may have a negative effect on the survival of fish adapted to ice-covered habitats during winter.
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- R D Hedger
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research P.B. 5685 Sluppen, NO-7584, Trondheim, Norway
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Jonsson B, Jonsson N, Finstad AG. Effects of temperature and food quality on age and size at maturity in ectotherms: an experimental test with Atlantic salmon. J Anim Ecol 2012; 82:201-10. [PMID: 22905937 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2012.02022.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2011] [Accepted: 06/28/2012] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The reaction norm between growth rate, age and size at maturity in ectotherms is widely debated in ecological literature. It has been proposed that the effect depends on whether growth is affected by food quality or temperature (called the Berrigan-Charnov puzzle). The present experiment tested this for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). We enhanced growth rates by increasing temperature and ratio of lipids to proteins in the food for groups of Atlantic salmon. Both treatments gave higher percentages of early mature and therefore smaller adults in contrast to the proposed Berrigan-Charnov puzzle. There was a difference between sexes in that males could attain maturity 1 year younger than females when reared under similar environmental conditions. Males that matured during the first year in sea water were smaller than similar aged immature males. The probability of that Atlantic salmon attained maturity for the first time during their second year in sea increased with growth rate during the preceding winter and if fed a high-lipid diet. Increased summer temperature exhibited no additional effect. Similar aged fish reared at elevated temperature and fed high-lipid diet attained maturity at a larger body mass and exhibited higher mass-length-ratios than those reared at natural temperature and fed a low-lipid diet, indicating that structural growth has priority over lipid deposits. Increased growth rate before the onset of maturation, whether this is owing to enhanced lipid content in food or increased water temperature, decreased age and therefore size at maturity. Enhanced lipid relative to protein content in food, but not temperature, had an additive positive effect on early maturation probability, likely due to increased amounts of reserve energy. These results may be general for ectotherm organisms.
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- Bror Jonsson
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Gaustadalléen 21, NO-0349, Oslo, Norway.
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Foldvik A, Teichert MAK, Einum S, Finstad AG, Ugedal O, Forseth T. Spatial distribution correspondence of a juvenile Atlantic salmon Salmo salar cohort from age 0+ to 1+ years. J Fish Biol 2012; 81:1059-1069. [PMID: 22880737 DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2012.03381.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The spatial distribution of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar young-of-the-year (0+) and 1 year old parr (1+) from the 2006 spawning cohort in a 5125 m reach of the River Skauga in central Norway was documented. A high degree of similarity was found between the distribution of 0+ and 1+ parr based on catches at 205 transects sampled in both years. Cross-correlations and partial cross-correlations (correcting for habitat variables) confirmed significant positive association between the two distributions on a small spatial scale (within 100 m) and a clear pattern of decreasing correlation with distance.
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- A Foldvik
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Tungasletta 2, N-7485 Trondheim, Norway.
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Einum S, Forseth T, Finstad AG. Individual variation in response to intraspecific competition: problems with inference from growth variation measures. Methods Ecol Evol 2011. [DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210x.2011.00167.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Einum S, Finstad AG, Robertsen G, Nislow KH, McKelvey S, Armstrong JD. Natal movement in juvenile Atlantic salmon: a body size-dependent strategy? POPUL ECOL 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s10144-011-0296-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Pre-winter lipid stores of brown trout Salmo trutta L. parr were compared along altitudinal (0-920 m a.s.l.) and latitudinal (58-71° N) gradients. There were increases in lipid content (size adjusted to common lipid-free dry mass of 2·0 g, corresponding to fresh mass of 10 g) with both increasing altitude and latitude. Mean size-adjusted lipid content for S. trutta in high altitude rivers was 60% higher than at low altitude (0·29 and 0·18 g, respectively). Mean size-adjusted lipid content for S. trutta in northern rivers was 30% higher compared to that in southern rivers (0·30 and 0·23 g, respectively). There was a marked between-river variation in mean lipid storage, probably reflecting different strategies or opportunities for the pre-winter acquisition of lipid both locally within rivers and between different populations. This study shows that temperature or winter length, not latitudinal covariates such as annual light regime, governs lipid storage patterns in juvenile salmonids.
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- O K Berg
- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway.
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Ulvan EM, Finstad AG, Ugedal O, Berg OK. Direct and indirect climatic drivers of biotic interactions: ice-cover and carbon runoff shaping Arctic char Salvelinus alpinus and brown trout Salmo trutta competitive asymmetries. Oecologia 2011; 168:277-87. [PMID: 21805086 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2074-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2011] [Accepted: 06/30/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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One of the major challenges in ecological climate change impact science is to untangle the climatic effects on biological interactions and indirect cascading effects through different ecosystems. Here, we test for direct and indirect climatic drivers on competitive impact of Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus L.) on brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) along a climate gradient in central Scandinavia, spanning from coastal to high-alpine environments. As a measure of competitive impact, trout food consumption was measured using (137)Cs tracer methodology both during the ice-covered and ice-free periods, and contrasted between lakes with or without char coexistence along the climate gradient. Variation in food consumption between lakes was best described by a linear mixed effect model including a three-way interaction between the presence/absence of Arctic char, season and Secchi depth. The latter is proxy for terrestrial dissolved organic carbon run-off, strongly governed by climatic properties of the catchment. The presence of Arctic char had a negative impact on trout food consumption. However, this effect was stronger during ice-cover and in lakes receiving high carbon load from the catchment, whereas no effect of water temperature was evident. In conclusion, the length of the ice-covered period and the export of allochthonous material from the catchment are likely major, but contrasting, climatic drivers of the competitive interaction between two freshwater lake top predators. While future climatic scenarios predict shorter ice-cover duration, they also predict increased carbon run-off. The present study therefore emphasizes the complexity of cascading ecosystem effects in future effects of climate change on freshwater ecosystems.
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- Eva M Ulvan
- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
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1. Variations in the strength of ecological interactions between seasons have received little attention, despite an increased focus on climate alterations on ecosystems. Particularly, the winter situation is often neglected when studying competitive interactions. In northern temperate freshwaters, winter implies low temperatures and reduced food availability, but also strong reduction in ambient light because of ice and snow cover. Here, we study how brown trout [Salmo trutta (L.)] respond to variations in ice-cover duration and competition with Arctic charr [Salvelinus alpinus (L.)], by linking laboratory-derived physiological performance and field data on variation in abundance among and within natural brown trout populations. 2. Both Arctic charr and brown trout reduced resting metabolic rate under simulated ice-cover (darkness) in the laboratory, compared to no ice (6-h daylight). However, in contrast to brown trout, Arctic charr was able to obtain positive growth rate in darkness and had higher food intake in tank experiments than brown trout. Arctic charr also performed better (lower energy loss) under simulated ice-cover in a semi-natural environment with natural food supply. 3. When comparing brown trout biomass across 190 Norwegian lakes along a climate gradient, longer ice-covered duration decreased the biomass only in lakes where brown trout lived together with Arctic charr. We were not able to detect any effect of ice-cover on brown trout biomass in lakes where brown trout was the only fish species. 4. Similarly, a 25-year time series from a lake with both brown trout and Arctic charr showed that brown trout population growth rate depended on the interaction between ice breakup date and Arctic charr abundance. High charr abundance was correlated with low trout population growth rate only in combination with long winters. 5. In conclusion, the two species differed in performance under ice, and the observed outcome of competition in natural populations was strongly dependent on duration of the ice-covered period. Our study shows that changes in ice phenology may alter species interactions in Northern aquatic systems. Increased knowledge of how adaptations to winter conditions differ among coexisting species is therefore vital for our understanding of ecological impacts of climate change.
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- Ingeborg P Helland
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, PO Box 5685, Sluppen, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway.
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Teichert MAK, Kvingedal E, Forseth T, Ugedal O, Finstad AG. Effects of discharge and local density on the growth of juvenile Atlantic salmon Salmo salar. J Fish Biol 2010; 76:1751-1769. [PMID: 20557629 DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2010.02614.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The study explored the combined effects of density, physical habitat and different discharge levels on the growth of juvenile Atlantic salmon Salmo salar in artificial streams, by manipulating flow during both summer and winter conditions. Growth was high during all four summer trials and increased linearly with discharge and mean velocity. Differences in fish densities (fish m(-3)) due to differences in stream volume explained a similar proportion of the variation in mean growth among discharge treatments. Within streams, the fish aggregated in areas of larger sediment size, where shelters were probably abundant, while growth decreased with increasing densities. Fish appeared to favour the availability of shelter over maximization of growth. Mean growth was negative during all winter trials and did not vary among discharge treatments. These results suggest that increased fish densities are a major cause of reduced summer growth at low discharge, and that habitat-mediated density differences explain the majority of the growth variation across habitat conditions both during summer and winter.
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- M A K Teichert
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Tungasletta 2, N-7485 Trondheim, Norway.
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Finstad AG, Berg OK, Forseth T, Ugedal O, Naesje TF. Adaptive winter survival strategies: defended energy levels in juvenile Atlantic salmon along a latitudinal gradient. Proc Biol Sci 2009; 277:1113-20. [PMID: 20007174 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Current knowledge suggests that patterns of energy storage and depletion in animals are governed by behavioural trade-offs between risks associated with feeding and future energy demands. However, the length of adverse periods varies over geographical or climatic gradients. To explore the potential for genotypic sources of variation in behavioural trade-offs, we compared the winter energy-depletion patterns among 13 wild populations of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) along a latitudinal gradient (58-70 degrees N) and performed common-environment experiments of energy-state-dependent feeding. In the wild, winter lipid-depletion rates were lower for northern than for southern populations. The variation in spring lipid levels among the population was lower than autumn variation, with storage lipid levels clustered close to critical limits for survival. In semi-natural stream channels with natural food supply, hatchery-reared fish originating from northern populations showed a positive scaling of feeding activity with decreasing energy levels, whereas southern populations did not. In conclusion, juvenile Atlantic salmon from northern populations defend their energy levels more strongly than fish from southern populations. Adaptive variation in feeding activity appears important for this difference. Thus, the present study shows a link between geographical patterns in storage energy trajectories and adaptive differences in state-dependent feeding motivation.
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Berg OK, Finstad AG, Solem Ø, Ugedal O, Forseth T, Niemelä E, Arnekleiv JV, Lohrmann A, Naesje TF. Pre-winter lipid stores in young-of-year Atlantic salmon along a north-south gradient. J Fish Biol 2009; 74:1383-1393. [PMID: 20735641 DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02193.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The pre-winter lipid stores of young-of-the-year (YOY, age 0 year) Atlantic salmon Salmo salar were analysed along a north-south gradient from c. 71 to 58 degrees N, with winter conditions ranging from >200 days of ice cover to no ice. The rivers sampled in Northern Norway represent some of the most northerly S. salar rivers. There was an increase in lipid content with increasing latitude, and mean lipid content (size adjusted to common mass) for YOY in northern rivers were almost three times higher: 0.035 g compared to 0.013 g in southern rivers. The relationship was not sensitive to variation in sampling time or variation in YOY body size. The lipid stores, however, varied markedly between rivers and also between neighbouring rivers, indicating different strategies or opportunities for pre-winter lipid storage both at latitudinal and local scales.
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- O K Berg
- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway.
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1. Spatial heterogeneity of resources may influence competition among individuals and thus have a fundamental role in shaping population dynamics and carrying capacity. In the present study, we identify shelter opportunities as a limiting resource for juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). Experimental and field studies are combined in order to demonstrate how the spatial distribution of shelters may influence population dynamics on both within and among population scales. 2. In closed experimental streams, fish performance scaled negatively with decreasing shelter availability and increasing densities. In contrast, the fish in open stream channels dispersed according to shelter availability and performance of fish remaining in the streams did not depend on initial density or shelters. 3. The field study confirmed that spatial variation in densities of 1-year-old juveniles was governed both by initial recruit density and shelter availability. Strength of density-dependent population regulation, measured as carrying capacity, increased with decreasing number of shelters. 4. Nine rivers were surveyed for spatial variation in shelter availability and increased shelter heterogeneity tended to decrease maximum observed population size (measured using catch statistics of adult salmon as a proxy). 5. Our studies highlight the importance of small-scale within-population spatial structure in population dynamics and demonstrate that not only the absolute amount of limiting resources but also their spatial arrangement can be an important factor influencing population carrying capacity.
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- Anders G Finstad
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, N-7485 Trondheim, Norway.
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