In 1985, a symposium held in Knoxville, Tennessee synthesized research on the ecology of North American Stream Fishes. In 1987, contributions from this symposium were published in “Community and Evolutionary Ecology of North American Stream Fishes” edited by W. Matthews and D. Heins. It has been 22 years since this symposium and numerous advances in theory and technology have altered the way scientist currently view stream fish ecology. For example, advanced in remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) have lead to a more comprehensive landscape perspective of stream networks. These advances have resulted in conceptual advances such as the “Riverscapes” perspective (e.g., Schlosser and Kallemeyne 2000; Fausch et al. 2002) and the River Network Dynamic hypothesis (Benda et al.2004). Food web theory has been aided by the use of stable isotopes (e.g., Polis et al. 2004), elegant experiments showing important linkages between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems (e.g., Nakano et al. 1999) and concepts of ecological stoichiometry (e.g., Vanni et al. 2002). Statistical methods such as information theory (Burnham and Anderson 1998) and artificial neural networks (e.g., Olden et al. 2006) have increased our rigor in drawing inferences from correlative data and predicting relationships between species distributions and environmental variables. Moreover, stream fishes have been useful in testing the relative importance of equilibrium versus nonequilibrium processes (e.g., Grossman et al. 2006; Lobon-Cervia and Rincon 2004). There are numerous other advances in this field that we hope to highlight in this symposium.
Specifics of the edited volume:
1) Contributed papers will present current work in the author’s field of study or a synthesis of previous studies. We encourage synthetic work and development of conceptual models.
2) The five main themes below will be preceded by a 2-3 page summary that highlights major advances in that area.
Timeline:
December 2006 – submit proposal for symposium to local AFS committee
Spring 2007 – submit proposal for edited symposium to AFS publications office
Final confirmation from authors – Fall 2007
Abstract for AFS meeting and symposium due – February 29th, 2008 (submit abstracts to symposium organizers)
August 16 – 20, 2008 – Symposium at AFS meeting in Ottawa
August16 – 20 2008 – Manuscripts due to symposium coordinators
September 2008 - Chapters out for review
October 2008 - Reviews returned to authors
February-August
2009 - Revisions completed or additional reviews
March-August 2009 - Final editing, reference checking, permissions completed
March
– August 2009 - Submission to AFS Editorial Office
1) Macroecology of stream fish communities:
a)
Synthesis of macroecological works dealing with freshwater fish
communities (Hugueny and Oberdorff)
b)
Latitudinal
patterns in community structure; comparisons of temperate–tropical, island
mainland, etc. (Winemiller)
c)
Molecular approaches address stream fish ecology
problems at multiple scales (Douglas and Douglas)
2) Stream
fish communities in landscapes: importance of connectivity:
a) From metapopulations to metacommunities in stream fish (Falke and Fausch)
b)
Fish movement studies (Rodriguez)
c) Spatial and connectivity issues with multivariate and predictive models (Peres-Neto)
a)
Riverscapes and foodweb subsidies
(Baxter)
3) Conservation
challenges for stream fish communities:
a)
Biotic
homogenization (Rahel)
b)
Climate change
(Lek et al.)
c)
Invasion biology
(Copp et al.)
d)
Landscape
changes: land use and water quality effects on fish communities (Infante and
Allan)
e)
Altered hydrology
(Olden and Kennard)
4) Structure
and Dynamics of stream fish communities:
a)
Long-term stability of stream fishes (Taylor)
b)
Stability/equilibrium
of stream fish communities (Grossman and Sabo)
c)
Persistence of
longitudinal patterns in streams (Hitt and Roberts)
d)
Insights into
early life history (Turner)
e)
Life history
traits, guilds and functional groups (Frimpong and Angermeier)
f)
Statistical
advances linking main drivers to stream fish community structure (Jackson)
g)
Drought/long-term
stability of stream fish communities (Marsh-Matthews and Matthews)
h)
Arctic/freezing
& ice scouring (Jones)
5) Role of
fishes in stream ecosystems:
a)
Disturbance
mediated effects of stream fishes on ecosystem processes (Gido, Bertrand, Murdock, Dodds and
Whiles)
b)
Fishes
in food webs: predator-prey
interactions, nutrient dynamics, stoichiometry
(McIntyre and Flecker)
c)
Food web
subsidies (Flecker)
d)
Direct and indirect effects of predation on
stream fish assemblages (Hoeinghaus, Pelicice
and Garcia).
Abstracts (updated 21 July 2008)
List of Contributors
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Benda, L., N. L. Proff, D. Miller, T. Dunne, G. Reeves, G. Pess, and M. Pollock. 2004. The network dynamics hypothesis: how channel networks structure riverine habitats. BioScience, 54(5):413-427.
Burnham KP. Anderson DR. 1998. Model Selection and Inference: A Practical Information-theoretic Approach. Springer-Verlag, New York. 353 pp.
Fausch, K. D., C. E. Torgersen,
C. V. Baxter and H. W. Li. 2002. Landscapes to riverscapes: bridging the gap between research and
conservation of stream fishes. BioScience,
52(6):483–498.
Grossman, G.D., Petty, J. T., Ratajczak, R. E., Hunter, M., Peterson, J.T. and Gael Grenouillet. 2006. Population dynamics of mottled sculpin (Pisces) in a variable environment: information theoretic approaches. Ecol. Monogr. 76: 217-234
J. Lobon-Cervia and
P. A. Rincon. 2004. Environmental determinants of recruitment and their
influence on the population dynamics of stream-living
brown trout Salmo trutta. Oikos 105:641-646.
Matthews,
W.J. and D.C. Heins. 1987. Community and evolutionary ecology of
North American stream fishes. University of Oklahoma Press.
Nakano, S., H. Miyasaka, and N. Kuhara. 1999. Terrestrial-aquatic linkages: riparian arthropod inputs alter trophic cascades in a stream food web. Ecology 80:2435-2441.
Olden, J.D., Joy, M.K., and R.G. Death. 2006.
Rediscovering the species in community-wide modeling. Ecological
Applications 16: 1449-1460
Polis, G.A., M.E.
Power, and G.R. Huxel (eds.). 2004. Food Webs at the Landscape Level. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, IL.
Schlosser, I. J. and L. K. Kallemeyne. 2000.Spatial
variation in fish assemblages across a beaver-influenced successional
landscape. Ecology 81:1371-1382.
Vanni, M.J., A. S. Flecker, J. M. Hood, and J. L. Headworth. 2002. Stoichiometry of nutrient recycling by vertebrates in a tropical stream: linking species identiy and ecosystem processes. Ecology Letters 5:285-293.