{"title":"Food-Web Impacts of Controlling Macrophytes and Algal Blooms Using Herbicides and Algicides in Invaded Aquatic Systems","authors":"Aaron B. Stoler, Rick A. Relyea","doi":"10.1111/fwb.70075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><ol>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Given the expansion of aquatic plants (i.e., macrophytes) that can occur with eutrophication, lakes and ponds are often managed with herbicides to kill large areas of undesired plants. In doing so, the dead plants decompose and release large amounts of nutrients that can facilitate major algal blooms, which are subsequently managed by applying algicides. These rapid shifts in community structure might also encourage other shifts, such as the proliferation of invasive species. More understanding is needed about how herbicides and algicides affect entire food webs, including food webs containing invasive species.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>We employed outdoor mesocosm communities to explore the community-wide effects of a common herbicide (fluridone) and an algicide (copper sulphate; CuSO<sub>4</sub>). Communities included algae, zooplankton, Eurasian milfoil (<i>Myriophyllum spicatum</i>) and two native snails (<i>Physa acuta</i> and <i>Helisoma trivolvis</i>). We further manipulated the presence of the invasive Chinese mystery snail (<i>Cipangopaludina chinensis</i>) to examine how the same chemicals might alter its ability to invade a community.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Surprisingly, we discovered that the herbicide caused a 40% reduction in phytoplankton and a decline in copepods, likely as an indirect effect. Adding CuSO<sub>4</sub> caused a 60% reduction in phytoplankton but no reduction in periphyton, while also causing an increase in cladocerans and declines in copepods and the two native snail species. In contrast, the invasive Chinese mystery snail was unaffected by the algicide, while it drove down the abundance of periphyton and one of the native snails.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Collectively, these results highlight the importance of examining multiple human impacts—alone and in combination—to more effectively assess the planned and inadvertent effects of human activities on aquatic ecosystems.</li>\u0000 </ol>\u0000 \u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":12365,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Biology","volume":"70 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David A. Hatton, Helen M. Roe, R. Timothy Patterson, Peter R. Leavitt, Ethan T. McCann, David R. McMullin, Carling R. Walsh, Sheryl A. Bartlett, Maarten Blaauw
{"title":"Assessing the Impacts of Land-Use Change and Climate Variability on Cyanobacterial Abundance and Toxicity in Shallow Lakes","authors":"David A. Hatton, Helen M. Roe, R. Timothy Patterson, Peter R. Leavitt, Ethan T. McCann, David R. McMullin, Carling R. Walsh, Sheryl A. Bartlett, Maarten Blaauw","doi":"10.1111/fwb.70066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70066","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":12365,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Biology","volume":"70 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fwb.70066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144606506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to ‘Analysis of Macrozoobenthic Species Associations in the Eastern European Plain Under Changing Climatic Zone Conditions’","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/fwb.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Golovatyuk, L.V., Seleznev, D.G. and Kurina, E.M. (2025), Analysis of Macrozoobenthic Species Associations in the Eastern European Plain Under Changing Climatic Zone Conditions. Freshw Biol, 70: e70044. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70044.</p><p>This article was published originally with incorrectly stated funding details as listed below.</p><p>Page 1 in section «Funding»: «… and RSF (Grant no. 23-27-00262)»</p><p>Page 11 in section «Acknowledgements»: «The data analysis was supported by the RSF Grant no. 23-27-00262».</p><p>We made a mistake in the grant number. Instead of the incorrect RSF grant number, ‘<b>23-27-00262</b>’, the correct RSF grant number is ‘<b>23-14-00128</b>’.</p><p>The correct funding details are listed below.</p><p>Page 1 in section «Funding»: «… and RSF (Grant no. 23-14-00128)»</p><p>Page 11 in section «Acknowledgements»: «The data analysis was supported by the RSF Grant no. 23-14-00128».</p><p>These funding details have been corrected in the published article.</p><p>We sincerely apologise for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":12365,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Biology","volume":"70 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fwb.70076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144598266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weeding the Biodiversity Patch—A Mesocosm Study of Predation by Boeckella major (Copepoda: Calanoida) on Billabong Zooplankton","authors":"John D. Green, Russell J. Shiel","doi":"10.1111/fwb.70064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70064","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":12365,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Biology","volume":"70 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fwb.70064","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana Paula Lula Costa, Paulo R. Guimarães, Andre A. Padial
{"title":"Antagonistic Rewiring and Turnover Patterns in a Neotropical Fish–Parasite Metanetwork","authors":"Ana Paula Lula Costa, Paulo R. Guimarães, Andre A. Padial","doi":"10.1111/fwb.70068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":12365,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Biology","volume":"70 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fwb.70068","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144550879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Casper H. A. van Leeuwen, Zoltán Csabai, Anita Szloboda, Arnold Móra, Steven A. J. Declerck
{"title":"Length–Dry Mass Relationships of Aquatic Insects: Geographic and Taxonomic Variation in a Digital Database","authors":"Casper H. A. van Leeuwen, Zoltán Csabai, Anita Szloboda, Arnold Móra, Steven A. J. Declerck","doi":"10.1111/fwb.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70056","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":12365,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Biology","volume":"70 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fwb.70056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144551249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andres Grolimund, Christopher T. Robinson, Pierre C. M. Chanut
{"title":"Effects of Dry-Phase Frequency and Duration on Macroinvertebrate Assemblages in an Alpine Stream","authors":"Andres Grolimund, Christopher T. Robinson, Pierre C. M. Chanut","doi":"10.1111/fwb.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":12365,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Biology","volume":"70 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fwb.70072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhenmin Yang, Fen Guo, Stuart E. Bunn, Xiaoguang Ouyang, Martin J. Kainz, Feilong Li, Wei Gao, Yuan Zhang
{"title":"Resource Quality and Quantity Exert Distinct Influences on Trophic Interactions and Food Web Pyramids Under Different Nutrient Conditions","authors":"Zhenmin Yang, Fen Guo, Stuart E. Bunn, Xiaoguang Ouyang, Martin J. Kainz, Feilong Li, Wei Gao, Yuan Zhang","doi":"10.1111/fwb.70073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70073","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><ol>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Resource quality and quantity are critical drivers in shaping trophic interactions and food web structures in aquatic ecosystems. However, the lack of clarity on how these drivers distinctly influence energy flow and trophic pyramids represents a significant gap in understanding the mechanisms governing ecosystem stability and productivity.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>This study explored how resource quality and quantity influenced trophic interactions and food web pyramids across a spatial gradient of aqueous nutrient levels. Resource quality was assessed by omega-3 (ω3) long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA), while resource quantity was evaluated based on biomass. Food web components were collected, including algae (phytoplankton and periphyton) and their consumers (zooplankton, macroinvertebrates and fish).</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Our results showed that higher ambient nutrient concentrations significantly boosted phytoplankton biomass, leading to a bottom-heavy biomass pyramid in the low-quality food group. However, this increase in quantity was accompanied by a notable reduction in ω3 LC-PUFA in primary producers, resulting in a distinct FA stock pyramid with a narrowed base and middle. This pattern suggests that despite high phytoplankton biomass, poor food quality created a resource quality bottleneck that constrained the transfer of essential fatty acids.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>This reduction in resource quality simplified the transfer pathways of ω3 LC-PUFA to piscivorous fish, limiting their dietary options and weakening trophic connections. Notably, the unusual role of planktivorous fish in accumulating FA at the second trophic level in the study area, in contrast to typical trends observed in other regions, highlights how variations in species composition and resource quality can reshape trophic structure and influence energy flow.</li>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <li>Our findings emphasise that declines in resource quality exerted a greater influence on food web dynamics than declines in resource quantity. Our study underscores the importance of considering resource quality, alongside quantity, to maintain ecosystem stability and resilience in nutrient-enriched aquatic systems.</li>\u0000 </ol>\u0000 \u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":12365,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Biology","volume":"70 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144536871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}