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We used two analyses to test the hypothesis that planktivore abundances contribute to the residual variations of Secchi depth or chlorophyll-a plotted with respect to mean summer epilimnetic total phosphorus. The first analysis involved 15 lake years of data from six lakes. The data set comprised mark-recapture assessments of piscivore and planktivore numbers and estimates of mean summer chlorophyll-a, total phosphorus and Secchi depth. We found that residual chlorophyll-a variation was not significantly (p > 0.05) correlated with planktivore densities, but that planktivore densities did contribute (p < 0.02) to the residual variation of Secchi depth on mean total phosphorus. The second analysis included all of the data used in the first plus an additional 13 lake years of data from the literature. These data showed that the percentage of the total fish community comprising planktivores did not significantly (p > 0.05) contribute to the residual variation in chlorophyll-a with respect to mean summer total phosphorus. Together, our results suggest that planktivore abundance has a significant cascading impact on water clarity, but no long term statistically significant impact on mean summer chlorophyll-a concentration.
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McQueen, D.J., Johannes, M.R.S., Lafontaine, N.R., Young, A.S., Longbotham, E., Lean, D.R.S. (1990). Effects of planktivore abundance on chlorophyll-a and Secchi depth. In: Gulati, R.D., Lammens, E.H.R.R., Meijer, ML., van Donk, E. (eds) Biomanipulation Tool for Water Management. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 61. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0924-8_28
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