Rapid recovery of macroinvertebrates in a South African stream treated with rotenone:

Bellingan, Terence A; Hugo, Sanet; Woodford, Darragh J; Gouws, Jeanne; Villet, Martin H; Weyl, Olaf L F

Title: Rapid recovery of macroinvertebrates in a South African stream treated with rotenone:
Creator: Bellingan, Terence A, Hugo, Sanet, Woodford, Darragh J, Gouws, Jeanne, Villet, Martin H, Weyl, Olaf L F
Date: 2019
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140751
Identifier: vital:37915
Identifier: DOI: 10.1007/s10750-019-3885-z
Description: South Africa’s Cape Fold Ecoregion supports a unique freshwater fish assemblage with many endemics. To mitigate impacts of alien invasive fishes on this unique assemblage, nature conservation authority CapeNature used rotenone to remove smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) from the Rondegat River. We investigated whether the rotenone treatments had an adverse impact on the aquatic macroinvertebrate community over the long-term, the first study of its kind in Africa. We monitored macroinvertebrates within treated and untreated (control) sites on multiple sampling events for 2 years before and 2 years after two rotenone treatments. We analysed the difference in invertebrate abundance between treatment and control sites before and after treatment, using generalised linear mixed models with sampling event as a random factor to partition out natural fluctuations in abundances over time.
Format: 11 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: Hydrobiologia, Bellingan, T.A., Hugo, S., Woodford, D.J., Gouws, J., Villet, M.H. and Weyl, O.L., 2019. Rapid recovery of macroinvertebrates in a South African stream treated with rotenone. Hydrobiologia, 834(1), pp.1-11., Hydrobiologia volume 834 number 1 1 11 January 2019 1573-5117
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Weyl, Olaf L F (Prof)

RU Albany Museum

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RU South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)

RU Department of Zoology and Entomology

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