Journal of Freshwater Ecology, Volume 20, Number 4 - December 2005
"Relationships between Littoral Zone Macrophytes and the Fish Community in Four Urban Minnesota Lakes"
Jeremy G. Slade and Eric D. Dibble
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Mississippi State University, P.O. Box 9690
Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762 USA
and
Peter C. Smiley Jr.
USDA-ARS, Soil Drainage Research Unit
590 Woody Hayes Drive
Columbus, Ohio 432 1 0 USA
ABSTRACT
We evaluated relationships between macrophyte and fish communities in the littoral zone of four eutrophic lakes in the metropolitan area of Minneapolis, Minnesota. We observed relationships between slender arrowhead (Sagittaria graminea), tape grass (Vallisneria americana), and sago pondweed (Stuckenia pectinatus) and fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas), johnny darter (Etheostoma nigrum), tadpole madtom (Noturus gyrinus), largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), and yellow bullhead (Ameiums natalis).
