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Species interactions in lakes
Limnology Lecture 10
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Assemblage – a set of species that co-occur in space and time
Guild – a set of species that co-occur in space and time and exploit the same class of resources in a similar way
Community – a set of interacting species that co-occur in space and time
Ecological community
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Community concepts
Super-organism (Clements) Integrated, self-regulating system
Emergent properties ~ Gaia hypothesis
Communities distinct units across gradients
Individualistic (Gleason) Independent responses to environment
Environment as filter
Communities assemblages of independently determined species distributions
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r > 0, ab
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Niche – n-dimensional hypervolume of environmental conditions in which a population has positive population growth
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Fundamental niche
Realized niche
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Niche partitioning
Fig. 7.4
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Niche vs. neutral Niche dynamics Neutral dynamics
Species patterns driven by match between species traits and environment Species niches determine dynamics Deterministic
Species patterns driven by random events Species equivalent in all ways Stochastic
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Neutral species and “random walks”
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Example of neutral species
Enallagma damselflies Humans and damselflies use small shape variations in reproductive organisms to tell species apart Ecologically pretty much the same
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Secondary consumer
Primary consumer
Producer
Tertiary consumer
Food chain
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A pelagic food web
Food web
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Complex food webs
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Top-down: predator-controlled
Indirect effects
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Trophic cascade
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Top-down: predator-controlled
Indirect effects
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Indirect effects in lakes
Carpenter et al. 1985
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Keystone predation
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1. Asymmetric competition 2. Selective predation on superior
competitor
Keystone predation
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Predator-
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Asymmetric
Competition
Keystone predation
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Intermediate disturbance hypothesis
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Fewer species can survive disturbance (more support)
Biological processes (less support)
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Intermediate disturbance hypothesis
Floder & Sommer 1999
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Townsend & Scarsbrook 1997
Intermediate disturbance hypothesis in rivers
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Brooks and Dodson (1965)
Observations Theory Experimental manipulation
Small zooplankton + alewife
Large zooplankton - alewife
Observation: planktivorous fish size and species composition of zooplankton communities
Size efficiency hypothesis
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Observations Theory Experimental manipulation
Hypothesis: Predator size-selectivity changes zooplankton
size/composition 1. Filter-feeding zoop compete for small food particles
2. Large zoop filter more efficiently (filter area ~ body length2) and
can exploit large resources
3. Large zoop are competitively superior (w/o predation)
4. Planktivorous fish selectively remove large zoop
Prediction: Large zoop dominate in lakes without alewife
Size efficiency hypothesis
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1. Planktivorous fish absent until accidental introduction of Alosa sp. in Crystal Lake
2. After introduction, size distribution and species composition changed in line with predictions
SE hypothesis has mixed but generally positive support; competitive mechanism less supported
Observations Theory Experimental manipulation
Size efficiency hypothesis