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RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

Effects of common carp on water quality and submerged vegetation: results from a short-term mesocosm experiment in an artificial wetland

Douglas Peterson https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0196-0076 A * , James Pearson B D and William Simpson C
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A US Fish and Wildlife Service, Abernathy Fish Technology Center, 1440 Abernathy Creek Road, Longview, WA 98632, USA.

B US Fish and Wildlife Service, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 36391 Sodhouse Lane, Princeton, OR 97721, USA.

C US Fish and Wildlife Service, Columbia River Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office, 1211 SE Cardinal Court, Suite 100, Vancouver, WA 98683, USA.

D Present address: East Bay Municipal Utility District, 1 Winemaster Way, Lodi, CA 95240, USA.

* Correspondence to: doug_peterson@fws.gov

Handling Editor: Lee Baumgartner

Marine and Freshwater Research 73(7) 973-994 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF22008
Submitted: 4 December 2021  Accepted: 24 March 2022   Published: 30 May 2022

© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Abstract

Bioturbation by non-native common carp (carp) can facilitate an ecosystem phase shift from clear to turbid water in shallow lakes and ponds, with negative effects on abundance of aquatic animals and plants. Management of carp often involves reducing populations below a threshold biomass at which important components of the aquatic ecosystem, like submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), recover. To evaluate control targets for a nuisance carp population in Malheur Lake in SE Oregon, USA, we conducted a mesocosm experiment in a small wetland within the lake’s drainage basin. We stocked 200-m2 enclosures with individual or multiple carp of different age classes at target biomasses of 50, 100, and 300 kg ha−1. We measured turbidity, total suspended sediments, nutrients, chlorophyll-a, and surface coverage of SAV four times within a single growing season. Turbidity increased through time and soluble P was higher in 300 kg ha−1 carp treatments compared to the control, but few changes were observed for any of the other variables at any biomass. Results suggest that with well established SAV, a maintenance carp biomass threshold of <200 kg ha−1 will not result in a phase shift from a clear- to turbid-water state in the short-term.

Keywords: alternative stable states, bioturbation, Cyprinus carpio, mesocosm, N, non-native, P, UAS imagery, water clarity.


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