Dispersal Limitations on Fish Community Recovery Following Long-term Water Quality Remediation
Abstract
Holistic restoration approaches, such as water quality remediation, are likely to meet conservation objectives because they are typically implemented at watershed scales, as opposed to individual stream reaches. However, habitat fragmentation may impose constraints on the ecological effectiveness of holistic restoration strategies by limiting colonization following remediation. We questioned the importance of dispersal limitations to fish community recovery following long-term water quality remediation and species reintroductions across the White Oak Creek (WOC) watershed near Oak Ridge, Tennessee (USA). Long-term (26 years) responses in fish species richness and biomass to water quality remediation were evaluated in light of habitat fragmentation and population isolation from instream barriers, which varied in their passage potential. In addition, ordination techniques were used to determine the relative importance of habitat connectivity and water quality, in explaining variation fish communities relative to environmental fluctuations, i.e. streamflow. Ecological recovery (changes in richness) at each site was negatively related to barrier index, a measure of community isolation by barriers relative to stream distance. Following species reintroductions, dispersal by fish species was consistently in the downstream direction and upstream passage above barriers was non-existent. The importance of barrier index in explaining variation in fish communities was stronger during higher flowmore »
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1240522
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Hydrobiologia
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Hydrobiologia; Journal ID: ISSN 0018-8158
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; restoration; stream barriers; habitat fragmentation
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McManamay, Ryan A., Jett, Robert T., Ryon, Michael G., Gregory, Scott M., Stratton, Sally H., and Peterson, Mark J. Dispersal Limitations on Fish Community Recovery Following Long-term Water Quality Remediation. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1007/s10750-015-2612-7.
McManamay, Ryan A., Jett, Robert T., Ryon, Michael G., Gregory, Scott M., Stratton, Sally H., & Peterson, Mark J. Dispersal Limitations on Fish Community Recovery Following Long-term Water Quality Remediation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-015-2612-7
McManamay, Ryan A., Jett, Robert T., Ryon, Michael G., Gregory, Scott M., Stratton, Sally H., and Peterson, Mark J. Mon .
"Dispersal Limitations on Fish Community Recovery Following Long-term Water Quality Remediation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-015-2612-7. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1240522.
@article{osti_1240522,
title = {Dispersal Limitations on Fish Community Recovery Following Long-term Water Quality Remediation},
author = {McManamay, Ryan A. and Jett, Robert T. and Ryon, Michael G. and Gregory, Scott M. and Stratton, Sally H. and Peterson, Mark J.},
abstractNote = {Holistic restoration approaches, such as water quality remediation, are likely to meet conservation objectives because they are typically implemented at watershed scales, as opposed to individual stream reaches. However, habitat fragmentation may impose constraints on the ecological effectiveness of holistic restoration strategies by limiting colonization following remediation. We questioned the importance of dispersal limitations to fish community recovery following long-term water quality remediation and species reintroductions across the White Oak Creek (WOC) watershed near Oak Ridge, Tennessee (USA). Long-term (26 years) responses in fish species richness and biomass to water quality remediation were evaluated in light of habitat fragmentation and population isolation from instream barriers, which varied in their passage potential. In addition, ordination techniques were used to determine the relative importance of habitat connectivity and water quality, in explaining variation fish communities relative to environmental fluctuations, i.e. streamflow. Ecological recovery (changes in richness) at each site was negatively related to barrier index, a measure of community isolation by barriers relative to stream distance. Following species reintroductions, dispersal by fish species was consistently in the downstream direction and upstream passage above barriers was non-existent. The importance of barrier index in explaining variation in fish communities was stronger during higher flow conditions, but decreased over time an indication of increasing community stability and loss of seasonal migrants. Compared to habitat fragmentation, existing water quality concerns (i.e., outfalls, point source discharges) were unrelated to ecological recovery, but explained relatively high variation in community dynamics. Our results suggest that habitat fragmentation limited the ecological effectiveness of intensive water quality remediation efforts and fish reintroduction efforts by impeding recolonization at isolated stream reaches.},
doi = {10.1007/s10750-015-2612-7},
journal = {Hydrobiologia},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 22 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Mon Feb 22 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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