Altered energy flow pathways in a lake ecosystem following manipulation of fish community structure

Alterations in zooplankton community str

Alterations in zooplankton community structure after selenium-induced replacement of a fish community: a natural whole-lake experiment

✍ David J. Marcogliese; Gerald W. Esch; Ronald V. Dimock 📂 Article 📅 1992 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 933 KB

Most of the fish species in Belews Lake, a cooling reservoir in the Piedmont area of North Carolina (USA), were eliminated in 1976-77 because of selenium poisoning . Zooplankton samples collected in 1974-75, prior to the fish kill, when the lake's fauna included a regionally-typical assemblage of pi