{"title":"The Physiological Ecology of Larval Lestes disjunctus Selys (Zygoptera:Odonata)","authors":"C. Eriksen","doi":"10.2307/1467185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1467185","url":null,"abstract":"Lestes disjunctus is a common damselfly found in small, densely vegetated temporary ponds such as the Rocky Mountain 'bog pond' studied. Hatch occurs at ice melt in May, growth is rapid and emergence is in late July. Dissolved oxygen (DO) and temperature vary considerably during this time. During a 'typical' late July day temperature and DO may range from minima at dawn of 12°C and 3.1 ppm (lowest 1.8 ppm) to maxima at 1700 h of 22°C (highest 25.5°C) and 7.6 ppm. One mode of adaptation to such variable temperature conditions is low Q10. However, Lestes' Q10S (2.4-3.6) suggest that like most aquatic poikilotherms, it does not gain competitional advantage through unique thermal adaptation. Logic suggests that respiratory regulation would be a beneficial adaptation to variable DO. However, L. disjunctus is not a good regulator of respiration either. Oxygen intake decreases a temperature-dependent 15-27% from a normal environmental high DO to its low-O2 critical point. However, daytime DO variation only causes a 10% metabolic rate variation at 18.7°C (warm, sunny day). Most metabolic rate depression occurs at night due to lowering DO. Given Lestes' physiological abilities and the pond's environmental conditions, a relatively stable high metabolic rate and activity level result during the time larvae can see to feed (evidence suggests Lestes is a visual predator). At night, when larvae cannot see to feed, lowering DO reduces their metabolic rate and therefore activity, with the energy 'saved' from not regulating perhaps accounting for this species' rapid growth rate. Finally, O2 intake accounted for by large gills, and great tolerance of DO below its critical points, combine to allow survival for short periods when such low habitat DOs exist.","PeriodicalId":154110,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Invertebrate Biology","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132489660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Simple Time Saving Technique for Picking Benthic Macroinvertebrate Samples","authors":"D. Toczydlowski","doi":"10.2307/1467190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1467190","url":null,"abstract":"A technique that shortens the time of picking organisms from sampling debris is described. The technique uses a suction tube method that is particularly efficient for picking up very small organisms. The technique works very well when samples are preserved in the field with 95% ethanol containing 100 mg/liter rose bengal. The combination of preservation and picking reduced handling times from approximately seven hours to one hour for samples with high numbers of chironomids.","PeriodicalId":154110,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Invertebrate Biology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133695580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growth Rates of the Asiatic Clam, Corbicula fluminea (Müller), in the Kanawha River, West Virginia","authors":"K. Welch, J. Joy","doi":"10.2307/1467187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1467187","url":null,"abstract":"This study was designed to assess growth rates of Corbicula fluminea under summer and winter conditions. A total of 80 small C. fluminea individuals were segregated into three shell length classes based on initial shell length. Thirty clams were assigned to Class I (<10 mm); 25 to Class II (10 to 11.9 mm); and 25 to Class III (12 to 14 mm), and placed in separate cages in the Kanawha River at Marmet, West Virginia, for a 12 week period (16 July thru 7 October 1983) when mean water temperature was 26.6°C. 'Warm water' growth rates (length/weight) were: Class I, 0.95 mm/week and 0.27 gm/week; Class II, 0.86 mm/week and 0.29 gm/week; Class III, 0.80 mm/week and 0.30 gm/week. An additional 78 clams were assigned to the same shell length classes and maintained in the Kanawha River for a 12 week period (11 October 1983 through 3 January 1984) when mean water temperature was 10.3°C. Thirty-three clams were assigned to Class I; 30 to Class II; and 15 to Class III. 'Cold water' growth rates were: Class I, 0.09 mm/week and 0.009 gm/week; Class II, 0.08 mm/week and 0.013 gm/week. Class III clams were destroyed by a predator. Summer growth rates were approximately 10.7 times higher than winter growth rates based on length and 22-32 times higher based on weight. In addition, smaller clams had higher growth rates than larger clams.","PeriodicalId":154110,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Invertebrate Biology","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130267027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Variation between Technicians Sorting Benthic Macroinvertebrate Samples","authors":"W. Ettinger","doi":"10.2307/1467189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1467189","url":null,"abstract":"After identification and enumeration, specimens sorted from 18 benthic macroinvertebrate samples by two technicians were returned to corresponding sample residue. Unknown to technicians, the samples were remixed and relabeled with new collection dates and then sorted as if newly collected. By chance, 13 samples were sorted by both technicians. A two-tailed t-test (p≤0.05) indicated significant difference in number of sorted specimens, but no difference in sorting time and in number of sorted genera.","PeriodicalId":154110,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Invertebrate Biology","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121981991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Closing Artificial Substrate Device for Sampling Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Deep Rivers","authors":"D. Courtemanch","doi":"10.2307/1467188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1467188","url":null,"abstract":"A cone-shaped wire basket filled with substrate material and closed by means of an inverted weighted funnel was found to alleviate the problem of loss of fauna during retrieval. This style of basket was found to collect the same groups of organisms in similar proportions as a conventional cylindrical wire basket operated by a diver. Loss of organisms was less than 1% of the total collected and was proportional among the taxa.","PeriodicalId":154110,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Invertebrate Biology","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133920459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecology of Shallow and Deep Water Populations of Pontoporeia hoyi (Smith) (Amphipoda) in Lake Michigan","authors":"M. H. Winnell, D. White","doi":"10.2307/1467186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1467186","url":null,"abstract":"Aspects of the ecology of Pontoporeia hoyi (Smith) were studied at a 15-m and a 42-m deep site along the southeastern shoreline of Lake Michigan. At these shallow and deep sites, respectively, average densities were 3234 and 8292/m2, average annual biomasses were 0.90 and 5.58 g/m2, annual productions were 2.82 and 7.07 g/m2/year, and P/B ratios were 3.13 and 1.27. Mean number of eggs per female at 42 m was 17 with a mean weight per egg of 0.0340 mg, and there was a significant correlation between number of eggs and body length. The life cycle of the 15-m portion of the populations was one year while the 42-m portion was two years. At 42 m the major winter reproductive peak contributes an apparently low density to annual recruitment compared with the minor summer reproductive peak. In part, differences may reflect active onshors migration by winter reproductive adults as nearshore waters cool in early winter. Adults remain onshore and release young in early spring, either dying or moving offshore with rising water temperatures. Young remain onshore as evidenced by very predictable onshore population changes.","PeriodicalId":154110,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Invertebrate Biology","volume":"270 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129903133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecological Studies of the Sand-Dwelling Community of an East Texas Stream","authors":"R. Whitman, W. J. Clark","doi":"10.2307/1467095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1467095","url":null,"abstract":"Between February 1976 and January 1977, an ecological study was made of sandy riffle areas of Mill Creek, Newton County, Texas. The psammonic community in the main channel of Mill Creek consisted of midges, oligochaetes, flatworms, micro-crustaceans, nematodes and tardigrades. The six dominant psammonic taxa with their annual mean densities and standard deviations (102 × animals / m2) were Aeolosoma spp. (1455 ± 3448), Catenula sp. (188 ± 605), Parakiefferiella spp. (307 ± 1169), Nematoda (43 ± 105), Robackia demeijerei (20 ± 30), and Polypedium spp. (20 ± 148). The following taxa were also present in descending order of abundance: Eucyclops agilis, Macrobiotus sp., Hexagenia limbata, Tanytarsini and Parastenocaris sp. Psammon densities were lowest in summer and highest in winter. Densities were highest in mid-riffle stations of upper and lower Mill Creek, and between mid-riffle and margin. Densities were lowest at the riffle's margin, pool and the Copperas Creek stations. Highest densities may be associated with intermediate water velocities which are slow enough to permit adequate deposition of detritus, but fast enough to prevent silt clogging and deoxygenation of sand interstices. Parastenocaris sp., Rhynchataloma falcata, Tanytarsini, and Nematoda did not differ significantly in vertical distribution (α=0.05). Aeolosoma spp., Robackia demeijerei, Parakiefferiella spp., Polypedilum spp., Catenula sp., Eucyclops agilis and Hexagenia limbata populations decreased with sand depth, while Macrobiotus sp. density increased with sand depth.","PeriodicalId":154110,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Invertebrate Biology","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131967448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Thermal Maxima of Nymphs of Three Plecoptera Species from an Ozark Foothill Stream","authors":"M. R. Ernst, T. Beitinger, K. Stewart","doi":"10.2307/1467096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1467096","url":null,"abstract":"Prostoia completa, Isoperla namata and Phasganophora capitata nymphs captured from a second order stream in northeastern Oklahoma were exposed to a steady rise in temperature of 0.34°C/min to determine their critical thermal maxima (CTM). At a collection temperature of 6.5°C, the univoltine, winter emerging P. completa had a significantly lower mean CTM (31.5°C) than the univoltine, spring emerging I. namata and semivoltine, summer emerging P. capitata which had mean CTMs of 33.2 and 33.4°C, respectively. A one month age difference in I. namata (February to March) had no significant effect on mean CTM, and neither head capsule width nor sex of nymphs had a significant effect on the CTM within any of the three species. Phasganophora capitata nymphs collected at 6.5°C and acclimated to 17.0°C had a significantly higher mean CTM (36.3°C) than those maintained at the 6.5°C collection temperature (33.4°C). Isoperla namata treated similarly did not show a significant increase in temperature tolerance. Therefore, it appears that adaptation to summer emergence or the evolution of a semivoltine life cycle by P. capitata includes a greater ability for tolerance acclimation than found in I. namata.","PeriodicalId":154110,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Invertebrate Biology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125277419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecology and Reproductive Strategy of a South Louisiana Freshwater Mussel, Glebula rotundata (Lamarck) (Unionidae:Lampsilini)","authors":"R. Parker, C. Hackney, M. Vidrine","doi":"10.2307/1467094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1467094","url":null,"abstract":"Female Glebula rotundata (Lamarck 1819) were examined every two weeks from August 1978 through November 1979. The population was reproductively active, i.e., marsupium functioning as a brood pouch, from March through early October. Females recharge soon after discharging glochidia larvae, thus initiating another cycle. Each female clam may reproduce three times a year. This reproductive cycle is atypical of other Lampsilini. Two species of sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus and Lepomis macrochirus, served as suitable hosts for G. rotundata under laboratory conditions. Glochidia successfully metamorphosed after attaching to gill filaments and fins of these species. Our studies suggest that fish near large populations of G. rotundata avoid parasitism by G. rotundata glochidia, and recruitment of young clams is low. Glebula rotundata larvae were found on two estuarine fish species Trinectes maculatus and Anchoa mitchilli, which may explain the occasional presence of G. rotundata in estuarine habitats.","PeriodicalId":154110,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Invertebrate Biology","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133790946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Sewage Effluent on the Occurrence of Psychodidae (Diptera) in a Stream","authors":"E. C. Masteller, R. Wagner","doi":"10.2307/1467098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1467098","url":null,"abstract":"A total of twenty-two species of Psychodidae was collected from two streams in northwestern Pennsylvania from 1979-1981, using aquatic emergence traps. At Fourmile Creek, 644 specimens were collected from two sites, one upstream and one downstream from a discharge of sewage effluent, while at another control site (Sixmile Creek), 257 specimens were collected. At the sewage affected site in 1981, 13 species were collected with Psychoda parthenogenetica (Tonnoir) accounting for 65% and Tinearia alternata (Say) 19% of the collection while at the upstream site 16 species were collected. Telmatoscopus quadripunctatus (Banks) accounted for 19% in 1981 and Tinearia limicola (Vaillant) 33% in 1980 at this upstream site. At Sixmile Creek in 1981, 13 species were collected and Quateiella interdicta (Dylar) (43%) was most abundant while in 1979 Panimerus basalis (Banks) (43%) was dominant. The tribe Psycodini was most abundant in the sewage-contaminated water while the tribes Pericomini and Tematoscopini were most abundant at the uncontaminated sites.","PeriodicalId":154110,"journal":{"name":"Freshwater Invertebrate Biology","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133407036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}