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| 论文摘要： | The Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis (H. Milne Edwards, 1854)), is a highly invasive species and poses a great threat to endemic species and infrastructure in Europe and North America. Although it is partly herbivorous and prefers to live in lakes with abundant submersed macrophytes, little is known about its effect on macrophytes. We used its native range, the mid-lower Yangtze Basin where the species has been cultured intensively for decades, as our study site to test the hypotheses that (1) high crab densities weaken the positive feedback between macrophytes and water transparency, and that (2) the effects of crabs become apparent only on decadal timescales and (3) are density dependent. We used correlative analyses based on 12 years of monitoring and multi-lake comparisons among 20 sub-areas in 4 lakes. High crab densities were found to cause negative effects on submersed macrophytes and transparency, and to weaken the positive relation between macrophytes and transparency. High densities of macrophytes showed resilience to disturbance from crabs. This resilience, however, reduced with continuous presence of high crab densities. Crab densities were strongly positively related with total phosphorus and negatively with transparency and total nitrogen. Phosphorus concentrations and transparency were not related with phytoplankton chlorophyll a, suggesting that crab's bioturbation strongly influences water quality. The apparent resilience of the dense macrophyte stands should however, not delay attempts to eradicate the crab where it is invasive as this becomes more difficult once they have become established. When macrophyte abundance is already low at the time of invasion, immediate loss of macrophytes may occur. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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