Preference of Redear Sunfish on Zebra Mussels and Rams-Horn Snails

REFERENCES

• Brönmark , C. , Klosiewski , S. P. and Stein , R. A. 1992 . Indirect effects on predation in a freshwater, benthic food chain . Ecology , 73 : 1662 – 1674 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Campbell , R. C. 1967 . Statistics for biologists London : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Carothers , J. L. and Allison , R. 1968 . Control of snails by the redear (shellcracker) sunfish . F. A. O. Fish. Rep. , 44 : 399 – 406 .
   Google Scholar
• Clarke , A. H. 1981 . The freshwater molluscs of Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Canada.
   Google Scholar
• French , J. R. and III , P. 1988 . Effect of submersed aquatic macrophytes on resource partitioning in yearling rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris) and pumpkinseeds (Lepomis gibbosus) in Lake St . Clair. J. Great Lakes Res. , 14 : 291 – 300 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• French , J. R. and III , P. 1993 . How well can fishes prey on zebra mussels in eastern North America? . Fisheries (Bethesda) , 18 ( 6 ) : 13 – 19 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Griffiths , R. W. , Schloesser , D. W. , Leach , J. H. and Kovalak , W. P. 1991 . Distribution and dispersal of the zebra mussel in the Great Lake region . Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. , 48 : 1381 – 1388 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hebert , P. D. N. , Muncaster , B. W. and Mackie , G. L. 1989 . Ecological and genetic studies on Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas): a new mollusc in the Great Lakes . Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. , 46 : 1587 – 1591 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hoogerhoud , R. J. C. 1987 . The adverse effects of shell ingestion for molluscivorous cichlids, a constructional morphological approach . Neth. J. Zool. , 37 : 277 – 300 .
   Google Scholar
• Huish , M. T. 1957 . Food habits of three Centrarchidae in Lake George, Florida . Proc. Southeastern Fish and Game Comm. , 11 : 293 – 302 .
   Google Scholar
• Klowsieski , S. P. 1991 . The role of pumpkinseed sunfish in structuring snail assemblages in northern Wisconsin lakes. Ph.D. thesis, Ohio State University, Columbus.
   Google Scholar
• Laughlin , D. R. and Werner , E. E. 1980 . Resource partitioning in two coexisting sunfish: pumpkinseeds (Lepomis gibbosus) and northern longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis peltastes) . Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. , 37 : 1411 – 1420 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Martin , T. H. , Crowder , L. B. , Dumas , C. F. and Burkholder , J. M. 1992 . Indirect effects of fish on macrophytes in Bays Mountain Lake: evidence for a littoral trophic cascade . Oecologia , 89 : 476 – 481 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Morton , B. 1992 . “ The anatomy of ” . In Dreissena polymorpha and the evolution and success of the heteromyarian form in the Dreissenoidea. Edited by: Nalepa , T. F. and Schloesser , D. W. 185 – 215 . Zebra mussels: Biology, Impacts, and Control. Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, MI
   Google Scholar
• New York Sea Grant . 1993 . Information Review , 5 ( 4 ) : 6 – 7 . North American range of the zebra mussel as of 15 December 1993. Dreissena polymorpha.
   Google Scholar
• Nichols , S. J. 1993 . “ Maintenance of the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) under laboratory conditions. ” . Edited by: Nalepa , T. F. and Schloesser , D. W. 333 – 747 . Zebra mussels: Biology, Impacts, and Control. Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, MI
   Google Scholar
• Osenberg , C. W. and Mittelbach , G. G. 1989 . Effects of body size on the predator-prey interaction between sunfish and gastropods . Ecol. Monogr. , 59 : 405 – 432 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Osenberg , C. W. , Mittelbach , G. G. and Wainwright , P. C. 1992 . Two-stage life histories in fish: the interaction between juvenile competition and adult performance . Ecology , 73 : 255 – 267 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Palmer , A. R. 1979 . Fish predation and the evolution of gastropod shell sculpture: experimental and geographic evidence . Evolution , 33 : 697 – 713 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schloesser , D. W. and Kovalak , W. P. 1991 . Infestation of unionids by Dreissena polymorpha in a power plant canal in Lake Erie . J. Shellfish Res. , 10 : 355 – 359 .
   Google Scholar
• Stein , R. A. , Kitchell , J. F. and Knežević , B. 1975 . Selective predation by carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) on benthic molluscs in Skadar Lake, Yugoslavia . J. Fish Biol. , 7 : 391 – 399 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stein , R. A. , Goodman , C. G. and Marschall , E. A. 1984 . Using time and energetic measures of cost in estimating prey vlaue for fish predators . Ecology , 65 : 702 – 715 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Twomey , K. A. , Gebhart , G. , Maughan , O. E. and Nelson , P. C. 1984 . Habitat suitability index models and instream flow suitability curves: redear sunfish. U.S. Fish and Wildl. Ser. FWS/OBS-82/10.79.
   Google Scholar
• Vermeij , G. J. 1974 . Marine faunal dominance and molluscan shell form . Evolution , 28 : 656 – 664 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wainwright , P. C. 1987 . Biomechanical limits to ecological performance: mollusc-crushing by the Caribbean hogfish, Lachnolaimus maximus (Labridae) . J. Zool. (London) , 213 : 283 – 297 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wainwright , P. C. and Lauder , G. V. 1993 . The evolution of feeding biology in sunfishes (Centratchidae) Edited by: Mayden , R. 472 – 491 . Stanford, CA. : Stanford University Press . Systematics, History Ecology, & North American Freshwater Fishes
   Google Scholar
• Werner , E. E. and Hall , D. J. 1979 . Foraging efficiency and habitat switching in competing sunfishes . Ecology , 60 : 256 – 264 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar