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The stable isotope composition of organic and inorganic fossils in lake sediment records: current understanding, challenges, and future directions
2018
This paper provides an overview of stable isotope analysis (H, C, N, O, Si) of the macro- and microscopic remains from aquatic organisms found in lake sediment records and their application in (palaeo)environmental science. Aquatic organisms, including diatoms, macrophytes, invertebrates, and fish, can produce sufficiently robust remains that preserve well as fossils and can be identified in lake sediment records. Stable isotope analyses of these remains can then provide valuable insights into habitat-specific biogeochemistry, feeding ecology, but also on climatic and hydrological changes in and around lakes. Since these analyses focus on the remains of known and identified organisms, they …
Introduction of Mysis relicta (Mysida) reduces niche segregation between deep-water Arctic charr morphs
2019
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Hydrobiologia. The final authenticated version is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-3953-4. Niche diversification of polymorphic Arctic charr can be altered by multiple anthropogenic stressors. The opossum-shrimp (Mysis relicta) was introduced to compensate for reduced food resources for fish following hydropower operations in Lake Limingen, central Norway. Based on habitat use, stomach contents, stable isotopes (δ13C, δ15N) and trophically transmitted parasites, the zooplanktivorous upper water-column dwelling ‘normal’ morph was clearly trophically separated from two sympatric deep-water morphs…
Jättikatkan (Gammaracanthus lacustris) ja jäännehalkoisjalkaisen (Mysis relicta) koko- ja tiheysjakaumat Saimaan Paasivedellä
2010
Reliktisten makroäyriäisten elintapoja on tutkittu maailmanlaajuisestikin hämmästyttävän vähän eikä etenkään elinympäristönsä suhteen vaativana pidetystä jättikatkasta (Gammaracanthus lacustris) ole tehty julkaisuja juuri lainkaan. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli selvittää lajin syvyyskohtaisia koko-, tiheys- ja sukupuolijakaumia sekä eri vuosien ja alueiden välisiä eroja Saimaan Paasivedellä. Lokakuussa 2006 – 2008 30 m alapuolisista vesikerroksista otetuista näytteistä saatiin samalla tietoa myös jäännehalkoisjalkaisen (Mysis relicta) vertikaalijakaumista samoissa olosuhteissa. Myös oka- (Pallaseopsis quadrispinosa) ja valkokatkaa (Monoporeia affinis) tavattiin joitakin yksilöitä. Mahdollises…
Population structure, life cycle, and trophic niche of the glacial relict amphipod, Gammaracanthus lacustris, in a large boreal lake
2019
Ecology of the glacial relict macrocrustacean Gammaracanthus lacustris, a rare inhabitant of deep Fennoscandian lakes, is poorly understood. We studied the life cycle and trophic position of this cold‐stenothermic amphipod in Lake Paasivesi, eastern Finland. The study is based on intensive sampling and analyses of fatty acid composition as well as stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope ratios. Both day and night, the G. lacustris population occurred at depths below 25 m at temperatures 40 mm and live up to 4 years. The oldest and the largest individuals and females seemed to favour the deepest zones. In October, almost 100% of females with length at least 25 mm (i.e. females presu…
Selective Fatty Acid Retention and Turnover in the Freshwater Amphipod Pallaseopsis quadrispinosa
2021
Gammarid amphipods are a crucial link connecting primary producers with secondary consumers, but little is known about their nutritional ecology. Here we asked how starvation and subsequent feeding on different nutritional quality algae influences fatty acid retention, compound-specific isotopic carbon fractionation, and biosynthesis of omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in the relict gammarid amphipod Pallaseopsis quadrispinosa. The fatty acid profiles of P. quadrispinosa closely matched with those of the dietary green algae after only seven days of refeeding, whereas fatty acid patterns of P. quadrispinosa were less consistent with those of the diatom diet. This was ma…
Impacts of reduced Lepidurus arcticus availability on brown trout life history traits in a mountain reservoir
2020
Lepidurus arcticus (the Arctic tadpole shrimp) is a vulnerable keystone species in Arctic and alpine water bodies where its occurrence and population size may influence the viability and life history traits of resident salmonids. Using data from a Norwegian mountain hydropower reservoir, Aursjoen, we illustrate how reduced availability of L. arcticus as prey resulted in the reduced condition, growth and delayed maturation of resident brown trout (Salmo trutta). We further link changes in the relative abundance of L. arcticus as prey to changing reservoir conditions, e.g. water level changes in the spring period, thereby establishing an indirect link between reservoir operation regimes and b…
Upper thermal threshold of Lepidurus arcticus (Branchiopoda, Notostraca) in lakes on the southern outreach of its distribution range
2021
Qvenild T, Fjeld E, Fjellheim A, Hammar J, Hesthagen T and Lakka H-K. 2021. Upper thermal threshold of Lepidurus arcticus (Branchiopoda, Notostraca) in lakes on the southern outreach of its distribution range. Fauna norvegica 41: 50–88. The Arctic tadpole shrimp Lepidurus arcticus has a circumpolar distribution and the Scandes (Fennoscandian Mountains) marks its southernmost limit in Europe. Within this area, 391 natural and 88 regulated lakes with L. arcticus have been identified, of which 87% are above the treeline. The lakes hosting L. arcticus decrease in altitude from south to north, which results from its temperature preferences. The majority of the locations are at a lower lake air t…
Äyriäis- ja nilviäistyöryhmän retki Käsivarteen elokuussa 2019
2020
Teimme elokuussa 2019 kauan suunnitellun ja unelmoidun retken Käsivarren Lappiin. Tarkoituksena oli käydä etsimässä ja kartoittamassa Lapin uhanalaisia ja vähän havainnoituja äyriäis- ja nilviäislajeja perustuen osin hyvin vanhoihinkin havaintoihin. Hanna-Kaisa Lakka on kartoittanut Enontekiön äyriäispopulaatioita ja niiden ympäristövaatimuksia jo vuodesta 2012 alkaen. Hannu Ormio on kartoitellut nilviäisiä Kilpisjärven ympäristössä vuonna 2011 ja Katriina Könönen on havainnut ensimmäisen lehtijalkaisäyriäisensä 1990-luvulla yliopiston tunturivesikurssilla ja myöhemmin muutamia havaintoja on kertynyt myös kesäisillä lomareissuilla. Yövyimme Kilpisjärven asemalla ja kartoitimme lähialueen la…