Effects of Predatory Sculpin on the Chironomid Communities in an Arctic Lake

• Published in: Ecology
• Main Author: Hershey, Anne E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1985
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Lake
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1939165; http://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.2307%2F1939165; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.2307%2F1939165; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2307/1939165

To determine the importance of fish predation and habitat heterogeneity in structuring the chironomid community of an arctic lake, I used a combination of field and laboratory experiments in conjunction with field sampling data. Chironomid density was consistently °1.5 times as high in macrophyte—co...