Virtual Issues

As 2011 marked the year of the 20th anniversary of publication for Ecology of Freshwater Fish the Editors looked back at some of the most exceptional or influential papers, which are brought together in this virtual special issue.

Click on the links below to read the paper online.

Metapopulations and salmonids: a synthesis of life history patterns and empirical observations
Rieman, BE; Dunham, JB

Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L., brown trout Salmo trutta L. and Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus (L.): a review of aspects of their life histories
Klemetsen, A; Amundsen, PA; Dempson, JB; et al.

The potential of flat-bed passive integrated transponder antennae for studying habitat use by stream fishes
Greenberg, LA; Giller, PS

Ecology of stream fish: insights gained from an individual-based approach to juvenile Atlantic salmon
Juanes, F; Letcher, BH; Gries, G

Feeding ecology of fishes associated with Egeria spp. patches in a tropical reservoir, Brazil
Pelicice, FM; Agostinho, AA

Effects of lipid extraction on stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of fish tissues: potential consequences for food web studies
Sotiropoulos, MA; Tonn, WM; Wassenaar, LI

Editor's Choice for the delegates of the 2007 SEFS Conference July 2007

Feeding ecology of fishes associated with Egeria spp. patches in a tropical reservoir, Brazil
Fernando Pelicice, Angelo Agostinho

The effects of limnological features on fish assemblages of fourteen Spanish reservoirs
J Carol, L Benejam, C Alcaraz, A Vila-Gispert, L Zamora, E Navarro, J Armengol, Emili García-Berthou

Satiation effects in piscivore prey size selection
Håkan Turesson, Christer Brönmark, Annett Wolf

The direct contribution of fish to lake phosphorus cycles
D Griffiths

Habitat distribution of fish in late summer: changes along a nutrient gradient in Danish lakes
Erik Jeppesen, Zeynep Pekcan-Hekim, Torben Lauridesn, Martin Søndergaard, Jens Jensen

Linking habitat selection, emigration and population dynamics of freshwater fishes: a synthesis of ideas and approaches
Thomas McMahon, William Matter

Whole-lake influences of littoral structural complexity and prey body morphology on fish predator-prey interactions
Greg Sass, Caitlin Gille, Jefferson Hinke, James Kitchell

Ontogenetic diet profiles and size-dependent diet partitioning of ruffe Gymnocephalus cernuus, perch Perca fluviatilis and pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus in Lake Balaton
Emese Rezsu, András Specziár

Effects of seasonality and migratory prey on body condition of Cichla species in a tropical floodplain river
David Hoeinghaus, Kirk Winemiller, Craig Layman, Albrey Arrington, David Jepsen

The impact of invasive fish on an endemic Cyprinodon species flock (Teleostei) from Laguna Chichancanab, Yucatan, Mexico
Ulrike Strecker

Antipredator responses of two native stream fishes to an introduced predator: does similarity in morphology predict similarity in behavioural response?
Michael Nannini, Mark Belk

Cascading effects of introduced Nile perch (Lates niloticus) on the foraging ecology of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
Gladys Bwanika, Lauren Chapman, Yusuf Kizito, John Balirwa

Habitat and food choice of Arctic charr in Linnévatn on Spitsbergen, Svalbard: the first year-round investigation in a High Arctic lake
Martin Svenning, A Klemetsen, T Olsen

Potential impacts of a recent and rapidly spreading coloniser of Australian freshwaters: Oriental weatherloach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus)
Reuben Keller, Sam Lake

Controls of local young-of-the-year (YOY) fish species richness in floodplain water bodies: potential effects of habitat heterogeneity, productivity and colonisation-extinction events
Evelyne Tales, Romuald Berrebi

Numerical and behavioural response of cyprinids to the introduction of predatory brook trout in two oligotrophic lakes in northern Ontario
Melissa Pink, Thomas Pratt, Michael Fox

Fish distribution and diet in relation to the invasive macrophyte Lagarosiphon major in the littoral zone of Lake Dunstan, New Zealand
Tobias Bickel, Gerard Closs

Effects of ambient acidity on chemosensory learning: example of an environmental constraint on acquired predator recognition in wild juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).
Antoine Leduc, Ellie Roh, Cindy Breau, Grant Brown

Population ecology and prey consumption by fathead minnows in prairie wetlands: importance of detritus and larval fish
Brian Herwig, Kyle Zimmer

Invasion of stream fishes into low trophic positions
Keith Gido, Nathan Franssen

Size-dependent predator-prey relationships between pikeperch and their prey fish
Hendrik Dörner, Stephan Hülsmann, Franz Hölker, Christian Skov, Annekatrin Wagner