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Bluebills and bayou bivalves: Hurricane‐driven trophic cascades affect wintering abundance of Lesser Scaup in Louisiana
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Stroud, Clay M. Caputo, Claire E. Poirrier, Michael A. Reynolds, Larry A. Ringelman, Kevin M. 2150-8925 2150-8925 Wiley Ecology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2829 <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The estuaries of coastal Louisiana overwinter a continentally significant proportion of Lesser Scaup (<jats:italic>Aythya affinis</jats:italic>; colloquially, “bluebills”), a migratory bird species of conservation concern since population declines began in the 1980s. Thirty‐eight years of aerial waterfowl surveys of Lake Pontchartrain—an oligohaline estuarine lagoon in southeast Louisiana—show that scaup abundance fluctuates between 0 and 1,194,907 birds, though the mechanisms driving this variation are unknown. Previous studies have shown that scaup feed primarily on mollusks, and so changes in the benthic prey community have the potential to strongly influence scaup dynamics on the Lake. Benthic communities are in turn shaped by both natural and anthropogenic disturbances (e.g., hurricanes and spillway openings), potentially creating a lagged bottom‐up trophic cascade that ultimately affects scaup abundance. Using 22 yr of paired benthic invertebrate and aerial waterfowl survey data, we found scaup populations increased with the abundance of medium‐sized Rangia clams (<jats:italic>Rangia cuneata</jats:italic>) and Dwarf Surf Clams (<jats:italic>Mulinia lateralis</jats:italic>). Those prey species declined in years when the Lake was hit by a hurricane, but medium‐sized Rangia rebounded strongly the year after, likely because storm‐surge salinity induces spawning. Using long‐term aerial survey data for scaup, we indeed found strong declines on the Lake in years when a hurricane made landfall, but scaup abundance increased the following year, presumably responding to large numbers of medium‐sized Rangia. Our three‐part analysis makes a strong case for a hurricane‐driven bottom‐up trophic cascade that affects scaup populations on Lake Pontchartrain. This study adds to a growing literature demonstrating not only that estuaries are tidally and seasonally dynamic, but that punctuated disturbance events can be important for maintaining ecosystem function.</jats:p> Bluebills and bayou bivalves: Hurricane‐driven trophic cascades affect wintering abundance of Lesser Scaup in Louisiana Ecosphere |
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| spellingShingle | Stroud, Clay M., Caputo, Claire E., Poirrier, Michael A., Reynolds, Larry A., Ringelman, Kevin M., Ecosphere, Bluebills and bayou bivalves: Hurricane‐driven trophic cascades affect wintering abundance of Lesser Scaup in Louisiana, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics |
| title | Bluebills and bayou bivalves: Hurricane‐driven trophic cascades affect wintering abundance of Lesser Scaup in Louisiana |
| title_full | Bluebills and bayou bivalves: Hurricane‐driven trophic cascades affect wintering abundance of Lesser Scaup in Louisiana |
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| title_short | Bluebills and bayou bivalves: Hurricane‐driven trophic cascades affect wintering abundance of Lesser Scaup in Louisiana |
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| title_unstemmed | Bluebills and bayou bivalves: Hurricane‐driven trophic cascades affect wintering abundance of Lesser Scaup in Louisiana |
| topic | Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics |
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