Aquatic Community Ecology

USGS scientists quantify and describe functional relationships among aquatic species and habitats to provide scientific information to conserve and restore aquatic community function.

Amphibians

• Ecological Impact of Introduced Trout on Native Aquatic Communities in Mountain Lakes (Salamanders, Trout, Diaptomid copepods) (FRESC)

• Native Salamanders and Introduced Fish: Changing the Nature of Mountain Lakes and Ponds (PDF--get Adobe Reader) (Bull trout, Long-toed salamander, Northwestern salamander) (FRESC)
  

Aquatic Birds

• Effects of Double-Crested Cormorant Predation on Fish Populations in Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River (Alewife, Brown bullhead, Salmonines, Smallmouth bass, White perch, Yellow perch) (LSC)

• Seabirds, Forage Fish, and Marine Ecosystems in Alaska (Pacific herring, Pacific sand lance, Salmonids, Smelt, Walleye pollock) (ASC)

Clupeids and Herring

• Identifying Mechanisms Controlling Growth and Survival of Connecticut River Alosines: Modeling, Field and Laboratory Studies (American shad, Blueback herring, Striped bass) (LSC)

• Seabirds, Forage Fish, and Marine Ecosystems in Alaska (Pacific herring, Pacific sand lance, Salmonids, Smelt, Walleye pollock) (ASC)

• System-wide Significance of Predation on Juvenile Salmonids in Columbia and Snake River Reservoirs and Evaluation of Predation Control Measures (American shad, Northern pikeminnow, Salmonids, Smallmouth bass, Walleye) (WFRC)

Crustaceans

• Desert Fish Stable Isotope Research (Crayfish) (FORT) (also related to Genetics, Genomics, and Molecular Biology)

• Ecological Impact of Introduced Trout on Native Aquatic Communities in Mountain Lakes (Salamanders, Trout, Diaptomid copepods) (FRESC)

• Inventory of Anchialine Pools in Hawai'i's National Parks (PDF--get Adobe Reader) (Opae'ula) (PIERC)

Mussels

• Freshwater Mussels of the Upper Mississippi River System (UMESC)

Plants and Fungi

• Community Structure and Adaptive Strategies of Fungi in Geothermal Soils (Fungi, Plants) (WFRC)

Salmon and Trout

• Aquatic Community Dynamics in Bonneville Reservoir, Columbia River and Tributary Streams (Bull trout, Chinook salmon, Coho salmon, Phytoplankton, Salmon, Steelhead, White sturgeon, Zooplankton) (WFRC)

• Beulah Reservoir (2001) - Food-Based Studies for Bull Trout (Bull trout, Lake trout, Mountain whitefish, Northern pikeminnow, Rainbow trout, Redside shiners, Sculpins, Suckers, White crappie) (WFRC)

• Ecological Impact of Introduced Trout on Native Aquatic Communities in Mountain Lakes (Salamanders, Trout, Diaptomid copepods) (FRESC)

• Evaluation of the Relation Between Exotic Rainbow Smelt, Osmerus mordax, and Native Cisco, Coregonus artedii (Cisco, Lake whitefish, Rainbow smelt, Zooplankton) (CERC)

• Interactive Effects of Fire and Introduced Trout on Aquatic Biodiversity in High-Elevation Lentic Ecosystems (Trout) (FRESC)

• Native Fishes of the Northern Rockies (Cutthroat trout, Fluvial Arctic Grayling, Rainbow trout, Westslope cutthroat trout, Bull trout) (NoRock)
  
  
• Native Salamanders and Introduced Fish: Changing the Nature of Mountain Lakes and Ponds (PDF--get Adobe Reader) (Bull trout, Long-toed salamander, Northwestern salamander) (FRESC)

Shad

• Identifying Mechanisms Controlling Growth and Survival of Connecticut River Alosines: Modeling, Field and Laboratory Studies (American shad, Blueback herring, Striped bass) (LSC)

• System-wide Significance of Predation on Juvenile Salmonids in Columbia and Snake River Reservoirs and Evaluation of Predation Control Measures (American shad, Northern pikeminnow, Salmonids, Smallmouth bass, Walleye) (WFRC)

Sturgeons

• Aquatic Community Dynamics in Bonneville Reservoir, Columbia River and Tributary Streams (Bull trout, Chinook salmon, Coho salmon, Phytoplankton, Salmon, Steelhead, White sturgeon, Zooplankton) (WFRC)

Suckers

• Beulah Reservoir (2001) - Food-Based Studies for Bull Trout (Bull trout, Lake trout, Mountain whitefish, Northern pikeminnow, Rainbow trout, Redside shiners, Sculpins, Suckers, White crappie) (WFRC)

Ecology Research

• Aquatic Ecology Branch at the Leetown Science Center (LSC)
  

• Aquatic Ecology Research at the Western Fisheries Research Laboratory (WFRC)
  
  
• Biodiversity and Conservation of Caribbean Reef Fishes (FISC)

• Ecology Branch at the Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC)
  
  
• Managing Pathways of Biological Production in Large-River Ecosystems (UMESC)
  
  
• Marine Reserves, Glacier Bay National Park Projects (ASC)