Acessibilidade / Reportar erro

First report the role of benthic macroinvertebrates as preys for native fish in Toltén river (38° S, Araucania region Chile)

Primeiro relate o papel dos macroinvertebrados como presas de peixes nativos no rio Toltén (38° S, região da Araucanía, Chile)

Abstract

The Toltén river is located in the 137 years old Araucania region, Chile (38° S), and is characterized by low alterations through human interference due agriculture and towns in its surrounding basin, the presence of native fishes and salmonids, and by its lake effluent regime originated from Villarrica lake. The aim of the present study was to make a review of ecological role of the benthic inland water macroinvertebrates as preys for native fishes of the River Toltén, in order to understand their importance in the ecosystem of the river. The literature revealed that the main prey for native fishes are Chironomidae larvae, nevertheless there are not specific reports for Tolten river. The exposed results are similar with similar native species for Patagonia, and these native species would have prey for introduced salmonids, or these species would have prey competition with introduced salmonids in according to the literature descriptions for Argentinean and Chilean Patagonia.

Keywords:
Toltén river; North Patagonia; Chironomidae; native fishes; prey; predation salmonids

Resumo

O rio Toltén está localizado na região da Araucanía, com 137 anos de idade, Chile (38° S), e é caracterizado por baixas alterações por interferência humana devido à agricultura e cidades da bacia circundante, pela presença de salmonídeos e pelo regime de efluentes dos lagos. do lago Villarrica. O objetivo do presente estudo foi fazer uma revisão do papel ecológico dos macroinvertebrados bentônicos de águas interiores do rio Toltén, a fim de entender sua importância no ecossistema do rio. A literatura revelou que as principais presas de peixes nativos são as larvas de Chironomidae, no entanto, não há relatos específicos para o rio Tolten. Os resultados expostos são semelhantes com espécies nativas semelhantes para a Patagônia, e essas espécies nativas teriam presa por salmonídeos introduzidos, ou essas espécies teriam competição de presas com salmonídeos introduzidos de acordo com as descrições da literatura para a Patagônia Argentina e Chilena.

Palavras-chave:
rio Toltén; Patagônia Norte; Chironomidae; peixes nativos; presas; salmonídeos predadores

1. Introduction

The northern Patagonian Chilean rivers (38-41°S) are characterized by their origin from lake effluents (Niemeyer and Cereceda, 1984NIEMEYER, H. and CERECEDA, P., 1984. Hidrografia. Santiago de Chile: Instituto Geográfico Militar, 320 p.). These circumstances have generated, and still continue to generate, a specific composition in the benthic communities that are adapted to these particular flow conditions (Colin et al., 2012COLIN, N., PIEDRA, P. and HABIT, E., 2012. Variaciones espaciales y temporales de las comunidades ribereñas de peces en un sistema fluvial no intervenido: río San Pedro, Cuenca del Río Valdivia (Chile). Gayana, vol. 76, suppl. 1, pp. 24-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100003.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012...
; Piedra et al., 2012PIEDRA, P., HABIT, E., OYANEDEL, A., COLIN, N., SOLIS-LUFÍ, K., GONZALEZ, J., JARA, A., ORTIZ, N. and CIFUENTES, R., 2012. Patrones de desplazamiento de peces nativos en el Río San Pedro (cuenca del Río Valdivia, Chile). Gayana, vol. 76, suppl. 1, pp. 59-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100006.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012...
).

The literature about macroinvertebrates in this kind of rivers is quite fragmented, and mainly describes the presence of Malacostraca such as amphipods of the genus Hyalella (S.I. Smith), freshwater crabs of the genus Aegla (Leach, 1820), and the southern Chilean river prawn, Samastacus spinifrons (Phillippi, 1882) (De los Ríos-Escalante et al., 2013DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., MERUANE, J., MORALES, M.C., RUDOLPH, E., FUENTEALBA, C. and BOXSHALL, G., 2013. Zoogeography of Chilean inland water crustaceans. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 846-853. http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol41-issue5-fulltext-5.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol41-issue5-f...
; Jara, 2013JARA, C., 2013. A checklist of the Chilean species of the genus Aegla (Decapoda, Anomura, Aeglidae). Crustaceana, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 1433-1440. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003258.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
; Rudolph, 2013RUDOLPH, E.H., 2013. A checklist of the Chilean Parastacidae (Decapoda, Astacidea). Crustaceana, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 1468-1510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003257.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
), and Diptera, Trichoptera and Ephemeroptera larval stages (Figueroa, 2000FIGUEROA, D., 2000. Efectos de la urbanización sobre las comunidades de macroinvertebrados bentónicos, en el curso principal del río Cautín, IX, región, Chile. Valdivia: Universidad Austral de Chile, 77 p. MsC Thesis in Limnology”.; Figueroa et al., 2006FIGUEROA, R., VALDOVINOS, C., ARAYA, E. and PARRA, O., 2006. Macroinvertebrados bentónicos como indicadores de calidad de agua de ríos del sur de Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 275-285. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2003000200012.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2003...
, 2007FIGUEROA, R., PALMA, A., RUIZ, V. and NIELL, X., 2007. Análisis comparativo de índices bióticos utilizados en la evaluación de la calidad de aguas en un río mediterráneo de Chile, río Chillán, VIII región. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 225-242. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000200008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007...
), many of these groups are currently endangered due to human-induced alterations in their habitats and the introduction of alien salmonids species since 1914 (Golusda, 1907GOLUSDA, P., 1907. La introducción del salmón en Chile. Santiago de Chile: Anales Agronómicos, 30 p., 1927GOLUSDA, P., 1927. Aclimatación y cultivo de especies salmonídeas en Chile. Boletín de la Sociedad de Biología de Concepción, vol. 1, pp. 80-100.; Barros, 1931BARROS, R., 1931. Introducción de un nuevo salmón en Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 31, pp. 262-265.; Wetzlar, 1979WETZLAR, H., 1979. Beiträge zur biologie und Bewirtschaftung von Forellen (Salmo gairdneri und S. trutta) in Chile. Freiburg, Germany: Albert Ludwigs Universität, 264 p. Ph.D. Thesis Dissertation Biology; Jara et al., 2006JARA, C., RUDOLPH, E.H. and GONZALEZ, E.R., 2006. Estados de conocimiento de los malacostracos dulceacuícolas. Gayana, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 40-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382006000100008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382006...
; Encina et al., 2017ENCINA, F., VEGA, R., LARA, G. and DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., 2017. Ecological role of benthic crustaceans in Chilean North Patagonian lakes and rivers (Araucania region, 39°S). Crustaceana, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 437-447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003643.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
; Vega et al., 2017VEGA, R., DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., ENCINA, F. and MARDONES, A., 2017. Ecology of benthic crustaceans in Cautin river (39° S, Araucania region, Chile). Crustaceana, vol. 90, no. 6, pp. 709-719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003689.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
). The (introduced) salmonids, specifically, constitute non-selective, active predators (Soto et al., 2006SOTO, D., ARISMENDI, I., GONZALEZ, J., SANZANA, J., JARA, F., JARA, C., GUZMAN, E. and LARA, A., 2006. Sur de Chile, país de truchas y salmones: patrones de invasión y amenazas para las especies nativas. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 97-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2006000100009.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2006...
, 2007SOTO, D., ARISMENDI, I., PRINZIO, C. and JARA, F., 2007. Establishment of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in Pacific basins of southern South America and its potential ecosystem implications. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 81-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000100007.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007...
; Fierro et al., 2012FIERRO, P., BERTRÁN, C., MERCADO, M., PEÑA-CORTÉS, F., TAPIA, J., HAUENSTEIN, E. and VARGAS-CHACOFF, L., 2012. Benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages as indicators of water quality applying a modified biotic index in a spatio-seasonal context in a coastal basin of Southern Chile. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 23-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-19572012000100003.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-19572012...
, 2015FIERRO, P., BERTRAN, C., MERCADO, M., PENA CORTES, F., TAPIA, J., HAUENSTEIN, E., CAPUTO, L. and VARGAS CHACOFF, L., 2015. Landscape composition as determinant of diversity and functional feeding groups of aquatic macroinvertebrates in southern rivers of the Araucania, Chile. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 186-200. http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol43-issue1-fulltext-16.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol43-issue1-f...
, 2016FIERRO, P., QUILODRÁN, L., BERTRÁN, C., ARISMENDI, I., TAPIA, J., PEÑA-CORTÉS, F., HAUENSTEIN, E., ARRIAGADA, R., FERNÁNDEZ, E. and VARGAS-CHACOFF, L., 2016. Rainbow trout diets and macroinvertebrates assemblages responses from watersheds dominated by native and exotic plantations. Ecological Indicators, vol. 60, pp. 655-667. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.08.018.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2015...
; Piedra et al., 2012PIEDRA, P., HABIT, E., OYANEDEL, A., COLIN, N., SOLIS-LUFÍ, K., GONZALEZ, J., JARA, A., ORTIZ, N. and CIFUENTES, R., 2012. Patrones de desplazamiento de peces nativos en el Río San Pedro (cuenca del Río Valdivia, Chile). Gayana, vol. 76, suppl. 1, pp. 59-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100006.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012...
; Valdovinos et al., 2012VALDOVINOS, C., HABIT, E., JARA, A., PIEDRA, P., GONZÁLEZ, J. and SALVO, J., 2012. Dinámica espacio-temporal de 13 especies de peces nativos en un ecotono lacustre-fluvial de la Cuenca del Río Valdivia (Chile). Gayana, vol. 76, suppl. 1, pp. 45-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100005.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012...
; Vargas et al., 2010VARGAS, P.V., ARISMENDI, I., LARA, G., MILLAR, J. and PEREDO, S., 2010. Evidencia de solapamiento de micro-habitat entre juveniles de salmón introducido Oncorhynchus tshawytscha y el pez nativo Trichomicterus aerolatus en el río Allipén, Chile. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 285-292. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-19572010000200010.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-19572010...
, 2015VARGAS, P.V., ARISMENDI, I. and GOMEZ-UCHIDA, D., 2015. Evaluating taxonomic homogenization of freshwater fish assemblages in Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40693-015-0046-2.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40693-015-004...
). Also, some rivers of this kind have undergone alterations in their surrounding drainage basins, viz., through anthropogenic enterprises as agriculture, deforestation, forestatation, growing cities, industry, among others, these new conditions affect the water quality (Kristensen et al., 2009KRISTENSEN, T., ÅTLAND, Å., ROSTEN, T., URKE, H.A. and ROSSELAND, B.O., 2009. Important influent-water quality parameters at freshwater production sites in two salmon producing countries. Aquacultural Engineering, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 53-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaeng.2009.06.009.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaeng.2009...
), and, by consequence, also the benthic species that are sensitive to water pollution are affected in their abundance (Figueroa et al., 2007FIGUEROA, R., PALMA, A., RUIZ, V. and NIELL, X., 2007. Análisis comparativo de índices bióticos utilizados en la evaluación de la calidad de aguas en un río mediterráneo de Chile, río Chillán, VIII región. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 225-242. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000200008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007...
; 2007FIGUEROA, R., PALMA, A., RUIZ, V. and NIELL, X., 2007. Análisis comparativo de índices bióticos utilizados en la evaluación de la calidad de aguas en un río mediterráneo de Chile, río Chillán, VIII región. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 225-242. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000200008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007...
; Tello et al., 2010TELLO, A., CORNER, R. and TELFER, T., 2010. How do land-based salmonid farms affect stream ecology? Environmental Pollution, vol. 158, no. 5, pp. 1147-1158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2009.11.029. PMid:20036452.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2009....
; Vega et al., 2013VEGA, R., DANTAGNAN, P., MARDONES, A., VALDEBENITO, I., ZAMORANO, J. and ENCINA, F., 2013. Bases biológicas para el cultivo del puye Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns, 1842): una revisión. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 369-386., 2017VEGA, R., DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., ENCINA, F. and MARDONES, A., 2017. Ecology of benthic crustaceans in Cautin river (39° S, Araucania region, Chile). Crustaceana, vol. 90, no. 6, pp. 709-719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003689.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
; Gorski et al., 2015GORSKI, K., HABIT, E.M., PINGRAM, M.A. and MANOSALVA, A.J., 2015. Variation of the use of marine resources by Galaxias maculatus in large Chilean rivers. Hydrobiologia, vol. 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-015-2542-4.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-015-254...
; Nimptsch et al., 2015NIMPTSCH, J., WOELFL, S., OSORIO, S., VALENZUELA, J., EBERSBACH, P., VON TUEMPLING, W., PALMA, R., ENCINA, F., FIGUEROA, D., KAMJUNKE, N. and GRAEBER, D., 2015. Tracing dissolved organic matter (DOM) from land-based aquaculture systems in North Patagonian streams. The Science of the Total Environment, vol. 537, pp. 129-138. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.160. PMid:26282747.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.20...
).

The River Tolten is located in the young Araucania region founded in 1881 (Figure 1) and originates in the Villarrica lake (Niemeyer and Cereceda, 1984NIEMEYER, H. and CERECEDA, P., 1984. Hidrografia. Santiago de Chile: Instituto Geográfico Militar, 320 p.; Barile et al., 2018BARILE, J., ESCUDERO, M. and DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., 2018. Ecology of benthic crustaceans in the Toltén river (39°S, Araucania region, Chile). Crustaceana, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 127-131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003743.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
); its course includes zones with low levels of human intervention, close to its origin, and zones with increasing of human interference from the towns of Pitrufquén, and Toltén (Niemeyer and Cereceda, 1984NIEMEYER, H. and CERECEDA, P., 1984. Hidrografia. Santiago de Chile: Instituto Geográfico Militar, 320 p.). After 137 years the Araucanía region needs to have an inventory of its macrofauna of benthic invertebrates as a baseline to evaluate the impact of the anthropogenic activities growth and to generate conservation measures for the ecosystem of the rivers of the Toltén river basin (Yoshida and Uieda, 2014YOSHIDA, C.E. and UIEDA, V.S., 2014. The importance of a Biosphere Reserve of Atlantic Forest for the conservation of stream fauna. Brazilian Journal of Biology = Revista Brasileira de Biologia, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 382-394. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.26512. PMid:25166323.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.2651...
). Also, to know the roles of the macrofauna of the river and particularly of the native fish and introduced salmonids.

Figure 1
Map of Tolten river.

The aim of the present study was to make a review of the role of macroinvertebrate inland water in the ecosystem(s) of the Toltén river, which constitutes an important resource for the Araucania region as a fresh water source and also as a habitat for macroinvertebrates and fishes species.

2. Material and Methods

It was searched literature published between 1980 to present year, from scientific data bases (Scopus, 2019SCOPUS [online], 2019. [viewed 20 November 2019]. Available from:http://www.scopus.com.
http://www.scopus.com...
; Scholar Google) and university libraries of the Araucania region for river Toltén macroinvertebrate data obtained from thesis from 1980 to present year. Taxonomic names were confirmed and corrected in according to specialized literature (Jara et al., 2006JARA, C., RUDOLPH, E.H. and GONZALEZ, E.R., 2006. Estados de conocimiento de los malacostracos dulceacuícolas. Gayana, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 40-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382006000100008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382006...
; Dominguez and Fernandez, 2009DOMINGUEZ, E. and FERNANDEZ, H.R., eds., 2009. Macroinvertebrados bentónicos sudamericanos: sistemática y biología. Argentina: Fundación Miguel Lillo Tucuman, 656 p.; De los Ríos-Escalante et al., 2013DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., MERUANE, J., MORALES, M.C., RUDOLPH, E., FUENTEALBA, C. and BOXSHALL, G., 2013. Zoogeography of Chilean inland water crustaceans. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 846-853. http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol41-issue5-fulltext-5.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol41-issue5-f...
; Jara, 2013JARA, C., 2013. A checklist of the Chilean species of the genus Aegla (Decapoda, Anomura, Aeglidae). Crustaceana, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 1433-1440. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003258.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
; Rudolph, 2013RUDOLPH, E.H., 2013. A checklist of the Chilean Parastacidae (Decapoda, Astacidea). Crustaceana, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 1468-1510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003257.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
). The on-line bibliographic database of the Universidad Catolica de Temuco, Chile, mainly Science Direct and Scielo, was used. In order to know the geographical distribution of the mentioned species and update their systematic classification, the link of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) (Global Biodiversity Information Facility, 2019GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION FACILITY – GBIF [online], 2019. [viewed 20 November 2019]. Available from:https://www.gbif.org/.
https://www.gbif.org/...
) was used.

3. Results and Discussion

3.1. Benthic communities under potentially native conditions

The reported studies for Toltén river are not precise about benthic invertebrate species (Ta, with exception to the presence of Ephemeroptera Andesiops arduaVera et al. (2015)VERA, A., OJEDA, P., OROSTICA, A. and MUÑOZ, F., 2015. Catálogo actualizado de los Baetidae (Ephemeroptera) presentes en Chile y su distribución geográfica. Revista Chilena de Entomologia, vol. 40, pp. 37-50., decapods Aegla abtao and Aegla rostrata (Jara, 2013JARA, C., 2013. A checklist of the Chilean species of the genus Aegla (Decapoda, Anomura, Aeglidae). Crustaceana, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 1433-1440. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003258.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
), and crayfish Samastacus spinifrons (Rudolph, 2013RUDOLPH, E.H., 2013. A checklist of the Chilean Parastacidae (Decapoda, Astacidea). Crustaceana, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 1468-1510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003257.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
), and Hyalella chiloensis (De los Ríos-Escalante et al., 2020DE LOS RIOS-ESCALANTE, P., SOLÍS-LUFÍ, K., RODRÍGUEZ-ORTIZ, R. and FARÍAS, J., 2020. First report on seasonal abundance of malacostracans in the Allipen river (38º51’S, North Patagonia, Araucania region, Chile). Crustaceana, vol. 93, no. 6, pp. 653-659. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-bja10020.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-bja10...
). These scarce reports would be similar to existing descriptions of other Patagonian rivers (Arenas, 1995ARENAS, J., 1995. Composición y distribución del macrozoobentos del curso principal del rio Biobio, Chile. Medio Ambiente, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 39-50.; Figueroa et al., 2007FIGUEROA, R., PALMA, A., RUIZ, V. and NIELL, X., 2007. Análisis comparativo de índices bióticos utilizados en la evaluación de la calidad de aguas en un río mediterráneo de Chile, río Chillán, VIII región. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 225-242. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000200008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007...
, 2007FIGUEROA, R., PALMA, A., RUIZ, V. and NIELL, X., 2007. Análisis comparativo de índices bióticos utilizados en la evaluación de la calidad de aguas en un río mediterráneo de Chile, río Chillán, VIII región. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 225-242. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000200008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007...
, 2010FIGUEROA, R., RUIZ, V.H., BERRÍOS, P., PALMA, A., VILLEGAS, P. and ANDREU-SOLER, A., 2010. Trophic ecology of native and introduced fish species from Chillan river, south-central Chile. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 78-83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2009.01347.x.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.20...
, 2013FIGUEROA, R., BONADA, N., GUEVARA, M., PEDREROS, P., CORREA-ARANEDA, F., DÍAZ, M.E. and RUIZ, V.H., 2013. Freshwater biodiversity and conservation in mediterranean climate streams of Chile. Hydrobiologia, vol. 719, no. 1, pp. 269-289. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-013-1685-4.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-013-168...
; Fierro et al., 2012FIERRO, P., BERTRÁN, C., MERCADO, M., PEÑA-CORTÉS, F., TAPIA, J., HAUENSTEIN, E. and VARGAS-CHACOFF, L., 2012. Benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages as indicators of water quality applying a modified biotic index in a spatio-seasonal context in a coastal basin of Southern Chile. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 23-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-19572012000100003.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-19572012...
, 2015FIERRO, P., BERTRAN, C., MERCADO, M., PENA CORTES, F., TAPIA, J., HAUENSTEIN, E., CAPUTO, L. and VARGAS CHACOFF, L., 2015. Landscape composition as determinant of diversity and functional feeding groups of aquatic macroinvertebrates in southern rivers of the Araucania, Chile. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 186-200. http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol43-issue1-fulltext-16.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol43-issue1-f...
, 2016FIERRO, P., QUILODRÁN, L., BERTRÁN, C., ARISMENDI, I., TAPIA, J., PEÑA-CORTÉS, F., HAUENSTEIN, E., ARRIAGADA, R., FERNÁNDEZ, E. and VARGAS-CHACOFF, L., 2016. Rainbow trout diets and macroinvertebrates assemblages responses from watersheds dominated by native and exotic plantations. Ecological Indicators, vol. 60, pp. 655-667. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.08.018.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2015...
; Encina et al., 2017ENCINA, F., VEGA, R., LARA, G. and DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., 2017. Ecological role of benthic crustaceans in Chilean North Patagonian lakes and rivers (Araucania region, 39°S). Crustaceana, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 437-447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003643.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
). Previous reports thus indicate that the taxa Plecoptera, Ephemeroptera and Trichoptera larval stages and Aegla are abundant under turbulent flow, associated with a high oxygen concentration and much particulate matter that makes a food source (Oyanedel et al., 2008OYANEDEL, A., VALDOVINOS, C., AZOCAR, M., MOYA, C., MANCILLA, G., PEDREROS, P. and FIGUEROA, R., 2008. Patrones de distribución espacial de los macroinvertebrados bentónicos de la cuenca del río Aysen (Patagonia Chilena). Gayana, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 241-257. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382008000200011.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382008...
; Moya et al., 2009MOYA, C., VALDOVINOS, C., MORAGA, A., ROMERO, F., DEBELS, P. and OYANEDEL, A., 2009. Patrones de distribución espacial de ensambles de macroinvertebrados bentónicos de un sistema fluvial Andino Patagónico. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 82, no. 3, pp. 425-442. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2009000300009.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2009...
).

Nevertheless there are not detailed records about other invertebrates. We are not aware of the characteristics of the benthic ecosystem of the rivers of the Toltén river basin, however, there is no doubt that its current state reflects a degree of impact due to the diverse anthropogenic activities and climate change, reason why It makes it fundamental at this time to have a baseline of knowledge for future research (Vargas et al., 2010VARGAS, P.V., ARISMENDI, I., LARA, G., MILLAR, J. and PEREDO, S., 2010. Evidencia de solapamiento de micro-habitat entre juveniles de salmón introducido Oncorhynchus tshawytscha y el pez nativo Trichomicterus aerolatus en el río Allipén, Chile. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 285-292. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-19572010000200010.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-19572010...
).

3.2. Trophic interactions between macroinvertebrates and fish

The literature about the trophic role of macroinvertebrate in inland waters revealed that in those ecosystems there are herbivorous, detritivores, shredders, omnivorous, carnivorous, and feed on vegetal residuals that originated from the surrounding catchment basins (Figueroa, 2000FIGUEROA, D., 2000. Efectos de la urbanización sobre las comunidades de macroinvertebrados bentónicos, en el curso principal del río Cautín, IX, región, Chile. Valdivia: Universidad Austral de Chile, 77 p. MsC Thesis in Limnology”.; Oyanedel et al., 2008OYANEDEL, A., VALDOVINOS, C., AZOCAR, M., MOYA, C., MANCILLA, G., PEDREROS, P. and FIGUEROA, R., 2008. Patrones de distribución espacial de los macroinvertebrados bentónicos de la cuenca del río Aysen (Patagonia Chilena). Gayana, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 241-257. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382008000200011.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382008...
, 2011OYANEDEL, A., KIESSLING, G., VALDOVINOS, C., SALVO, J., SANDOVAL, N., OLMOS, V. and MOYA, C., 2011. The Southernmost freshwater anomuran of the world: geographic distribution and new records of Patagonian Aeglids (Decapoda: Aeglidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 396-400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1651/10-3427.1.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1651/10-3427.1...
; Moya et al., 2009MOYA, C., VALDOVINOS, C., MORAGA, A., ROMERO, F., DEBELS, P. and OYANEDEL, A., 2009. Patrones de distribución espacial de ensambles de macroinvertebrados bentónicos de un sistema fluvial Andino Patagónico. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 82, no. 3, pp. 425-442. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2009000300009.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2009...
; Encina et al., 2017ENCINA, F., VEGA, R., LARA, G. and DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., 2017. Ecological role of benthic crustaceans in Chilean North Patagonian lakes and rivers (Araucania region, 39°S). Crustaceana, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 437-447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003643.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
; Vega et al., 2020VEGA, R., DE LOS RÍOS, P., ENCINA, F., NORAMBUENA, J.A., BARILE, J. and MARDONES, A., 2020. First report of inventary and role of macroinvertebrates and fish in Cautin river (38°S, Araucania region, Chile). Brazilian Journal of Biology = Revista Brasileira de Biologia, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 215-228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.203511. PMid:31066767.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.2035...
). According to the literature (Tables 1 and 2), the amphipods feed on dead vegetal matter and macrophytes, whereas the Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera and Plecoptera larval stages are shredders and decapods feed on dead vegetal matter and also predate on freshwater mollusks, finally freshwater mollusks (gastropoda) are herbivores, detritivorous and scrappers.

Table 1
Trophic role of benthic invertebrate found Patagonian rivers (see: Vega et al., 2020VEGA, R., DE LOS RÍOS, P., ENCINA, F., NORAMBUENA, J.A., BARILE, J. and MARDONES, A., 2020. First report of inventary and role of macroinvertebrates and fish in Cautin river (38°S, Araucania region, Chile). Brazilian Journal of Biology = Revista Brasileira de Biologia, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 215-228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.203511. PMid:31066767.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.2035...
).
Table 2
Carnivore freshwater native fish alimentation for Araucanian region. (P = Phylum; SP = Sub Phylum; C = Class; SpC = Superclass; SbC = Sub Class; O = Order; SO = Sub Order; F = Family.

The literature described the diet of five native species from Tolten river, Trichomyecterus aerolatus (Noa, 2013NOA, E., 2013. Relación longitud-peso, factor de condición e ítem alimentario de poblaciones silvestres de bagre pintado Trichomycterus aerolatus (Valenciennes, 1840) con peces capturados en la cuenca del río Toltén, IX región de la Araucanía. Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 24 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura., Ferrada, 2015FERRADA, R., 2015. Caracterización estacional (otoño-invierno) del ítem alimentario, relación longitud-peso e índice de condición del bagre pintado, Trichomycterus aerolatus (Valenciennes, 1846) de la cuenca del río Toltén, región de la Araucanía. Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 28 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura.), T. chiltoni (Saez, 2013SAEZ, J.L., 2013. Características biométricas e item alimentario en una población juvenil de Trichomycterus chiltoni (Eigenmann, 1928) en el río Toltén, región de la Araucanía. Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 26 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura.), Cheirodon australe (Quezada, 2014QUEZADA, C., 2014. Relación longitud-peso, factor de condición y análisis de la dieta de Cheirodon australe (Eigenmann 1927) capturados en la cuenca del río Toltén, IX región de la Araucanía. Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 27 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura.), Percillia gillissi (Padilla, 2015PADILLA, A., 2015. Características biométricas e ítem alimentario en una población de Percilia gillissi (Girard 1855) en el río Toltén, región de la Araucanía. Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 26 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura.), and Odonthestes mauleanum (Bastías, 2013), their preys are mainly aquatic insects larvae, being Chironomidae larvae a common prey for all studied species (Table 2). The main preys reported (Table 3) were Chironomidae larvae for T. aerolatus (Noa, 2013NOA, E., 2013. Relación longitud-peso, factor de condición e ítem alimentario de poblaciones silvestres de bagre pintado Trichomycterus aerolatus (Valenciennes, 1840) con peces capturados en la cuenca del río Toltén, IX región de la Araucanía. Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 24 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura., Ferrada, 2015FERRADA, R., 2015. Caracterización estacional (otoño-invierno) del ítem alimentario, relación longitud-peso e índice de condición del bagre pintado, Trichomycterus aerolatus (Valenciennes, 1846) de la cuenca del río Toltén, región de la Araucanía. Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 28 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura.), T. chiltoni (Saez, 2013SAEZ, J.L., 2013. Características biométricas e item alimentario en una población juvenil de Trichomycterus chiltoni (Eigenmann, 1928) en el río Toltén, región de la Araucanía. Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 26 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura.), C. australe (Quezada, 2014QUEZADA, C., 2014. Relación longitud-peso, factor de condición y análisis de la dieta de Cheirodon australe (Eigenmann 1927) capturados en la cuenca del río Toltén, IX región de la Araucanía. Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 27 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura.), whereas for P. gillissi the main prey were Ephemeroptera larvae (Padilla, 2015PADILLA, A., 2015. Características biométricas e ítem alimentario en una población de Percilia gillissi (Girard 1855) en el río Toltén, región de la Araucanía. Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 26 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura.), these results would indicate that T. aerolatus, T. chiltoni and C. austral would predate on the same prey, whereas P. gillissi would have a different main prey, that would indicate an specialized predation. Unfortunately, there are few reports of other native species, although it would be possible found predator prey interactions between P. trutta that would predate on decapods of Aegla genus (Encina et al., 2017ENCINA, F., VEGA, R., LARA, G. and DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., 2017. Ecological role of benthic crustaceans in Chilean North Patagonian lakes and rivers (Araucania region, 39°S). Crustaceana, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 437-447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003643.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
), and simultaneously Aegla and aquatic insects can be an important preys for O. mykiss (Ruiz, 1993RUIZ, V., 1993. Ictiofauna del Río Andalien. Gayana. Zoología, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 109-278.; Palma et al., 2002PALMA, A., FIGUEROA, R., RUIZ, V.H., ARAYA, E. and BERRÍOS, P., 2002. Composición de la dieta de Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792) (Pisces: Salmonidae) en un sistema fluvial de baja intervención antrópica: estero Nonguén, VIII región, Chile. Gayana, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 129-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382002000200007.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382002...
; Pascual and Ciancio, 2007PASCUAL, M.A. and CIANCIO, J.E. 2007. Introduced anadromous salmonids in Patagonia: risk, uses and a conservation paradox. In: T.M. BERT (Ed). Ecological and genetic implications of aquaculture activities. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 333-353. . http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6148-6_18.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-614...
; Penaluna et al., 2009PENALUNA, B.E., ARISMENDI, I. and SOTO, D., 2009. Evidence of interactive segregation between introduced trout and native fishes in northern Patagonian rivers, Chile. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, vol. 138, no. 4, pp. 839-845. http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/T08-134.1.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/T08-134.1...
), and these results are similar to observations for O. tschawytsha in the Allipen river, which is located in the same region, as well as for other rivers in northern Patagonia between 39° and 41°S (Soto et al., 2006SOTO, D., ARISMENDI, I., GONZALEZ, J., SANZANA, J., JARA, F., JARA, C., GUZMAN, E. and LARA, A., 2006. Sur de Chile, país de truchas y salmones: patrones de invasión y amenazas para las especies nativas. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 97-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2006000100009.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2006...
, 2007SOTO, D., ARISMENDI, I., PRINZIO, C. and JARA, F., 2007. Establishment of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in Pacific basins of southern South America and its potential ecosystem implications. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 81-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000100007.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007...
; Arismendi et al., 2009ARISMENDI, I., SOTO, D., PENALUNA, B., JARA, C., LEAL, C. and LEÓN-MUÑOZ, J., 2009. Aquaculture, non native salmonid invasions and associated declines of native fishes in northern Patagonian lakes. Freshwater Biology, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1135-1147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02157.x.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.20...
).

Table 3
Summary of indicators used in stomach contents analysis (Nf: Numeric frequency; Of: Occurrence frequency; NNI: Numeric importance index) for native fishes reported at Tolten river. P = Phylum; SP = Sub Phylum; C = Class; SpC = Superclass; SbC = Sub Class; O = Order; S.O. = Sub Order; F. Family.

The current presence of salmonids acclimatized to Chilean inland waters has evoked management regulations, which include a specific open sport fisheries season ranging between November and March (Chile, 2016CHILE. Servicio Nacional de Pesca y Acuicultura – SERNAPESCA [online], 2016 [viewed 22 March 2017]. Available from: http://www.sernapesca.cl
http://www.sernapesca.cl...
). In spite of these measurements and the possible monitoring of their effects, there are only some previous studies that report about temporal variations in the potential preys of salmonids, as there are the young of the native fishes and benthic macroinvertebrates, but fortunately similar situations have been reported upon for other Chilean inland water ecosystems (Campos, 1972CAMPOS, H., 1972. Breeding season and early development of Brachygalaxias bullocki (Osteichthyes: galaxiidae). The Texas Journal of Science, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 531-544., 1973CAMPOS, H., 1973. Introducción de especies exóticas y su relación con los peces de agua dulce de Chile. Noticiario Mensual Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, vol. 17, no. 198-199, pp. 3-14., 1985CAMPOS, H., 1985. Distribution of the Fishes in the Andean rivers in the South of Chile. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, vol. 104, pp. 169-191.; Campos et al., 1993aCAMPOS, H., ALAY, F., RUIZ, V. and GAVILÁN, J., 1993a. Antecedentes biológicos de la fauna íctica presente en la hoya hidrográfica del río Bío Bio. In: F. FARANDA and O. PARRA, eds. Evaluación de la calidad del agua y ecología del sistema limnético y fluvial del río Biobío. Concepción, Chile: Editorial Universidad de Concepción. Serie Monografías Científicas Eula., bCAMPOS, H., RUIZ, V., GAVILÁN, J. and ALAY, F., 1993b. Peces del río Bio Bío. Concepción, Chile: Editorial Universidad de Concepción, 100 p. Serie Publicaciones de Divulgación EULA., 1998CAMPOS, H., DAZAROLA, G., DYER, B., FUENTES, L., GAVILÁN, J.F., HUAQUÍN, L., MARTÍNEZ, G., MELÉNDEZ, R., PEQUEÑO, G., PONCE, F., RUIZ, V.H., SIELFELD, W., SOTO, D., VEGA, R. and VILA, I., 1998. Categorías de conservación de peces nativos de aguas continentales de Chile. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, vol. 47, pp. 101-122.; Arenas, 1978ARENAS, J., 1978. Análisis de la alimentación de Salmo gairdneri Richardson en el lago Riñihue y río San Pedro. Medio Ambiente, vol. 3, pp. 50-58.; Vila et al., 1999VILA, I., FUENTES, L. and SAAVEDRA, M., 1999. Ictiofauna en los sistemas limínicos de la Isla Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 273-284.; Habit et al., 2006HABIT, E., DYER, B. and VILA, I., 2006. Estado de conocimiento de los peces dulceacuícolas de Chile. Gayana, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 100-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382006000100016.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382006...
, 2010HABIT, E., PIEDRA, P., RUZZANTE, D.E., WALDE, S.J., BELK, M.C., CUSSAC, V.E., GONZALEZ, J. and COLIN, N., 2010. Changes in the distribution of native fishes in response to introduced species and other anthropogenic effects. Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 697-710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00541.x.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.20...
, 2012HABIT, E., GONZALEZ, J., RUZZANTE, D.E. and WALDE, S.J., 2012. Native and introduced fish species richness in Chilean Patagonian lakes: inferences on invasion mechanisms using salmonid-free lakes. Diversity & Distributions, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 1153-1165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00906.x.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.20...
; Soto et al., 2006SOTO, D., ARISMENDI, I., GONZALEZ, J., SANZANA, J., JARA, F., JARA, C., GUZMAN, E. and LARA, A., 2006. Sur de Chile, país de truchas y salmones: patrones de invasión y amenazas para las especies nativas. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 97-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2006000100009.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2006...
, 2007SOTO, D., ARISMENDI, I., PRINZIO, C. and JARA, F., 2007. Establishment of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in Pacific basins of southern South America and its potential ecosystem implications. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 81-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000100007.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007...
; Arismendi et al., 2009ARISMENDI, I., SOTO, D., PENALUNA, B., JARA, C., LEAL, C. and LEÓN-MUÑOZ, J., 2009. Aquaculture, non native salmonid invasions and associated declines of native fishes in northern Patagonian lakes. Freshwater Biology, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1135-1147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02157.x.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.20...
; Colin et al., 2012COLIN, N., PIEDRA, P. and HABIT, E., 2012. Variaciones espaciales y temporales de las comunidades ribereñas de peces en un sistema fluvial no intervenido: río San Pedro, Cuenca del Río Valdivia (Chile). Gayana, vol. 76, suppl. 1, pp. 24-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100003.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012...
; Piedra et al., 2012PIEDRA, P., HABIT, E., OYANEDEL, A., COLIN, N., SOLIS-LUFÍ, K., GONZALEZ, J., JARA, A., ORTIZ, N. and CIFUENTES, R., 2012. Patrones de desplazamiento de peces nativos en el Río San Pedro (cuenca del Río Valdivia, Chile). Gayana, vol. 76, suppl. 1, pp. 59-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100006.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012...
; Valdovinos et al., 2012VALDOVINOS, C., HABIT, E., JARA, A., PIEDRA, P., GONZÁLEZ, J. and SALVO, J., 2012. Dinámica espacio-temporal de 13 especies de peces nativos en un ecotono lacustre-fluvial de la Cuenca del Río Valdivia (Chile). Gayana, vol. 76, suppl. 1, pp. 45-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100005.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012...
; Vargas et al., 2015VARGAS, P.V., ARISMENDI, I. and GOMEZ-UCHIDA, D., 2015. Evaluating taxonomic homogenization of freshwater fish assemblages in Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40693-015-0046-2.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40693-015-004...
; Encina et al., 2017ENCINA, F., VEGA, R., LARA, G. and DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., 2017. Ecological role of benthic crustaceans in Chilean North Patagonian lakes and rivers (Araucania region, 39°S). Crustaceana, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 437-447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003643.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
; Vega et al., 2013VEGA, R., DANTAGNAN, P., MARDONES, A., VALDEBENITO, I., ZAMORANO, J. and ENCINA, F., 2013. Bases biológicas para el cultivo del puye Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns, 1842): una revisión. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 369-386.; 2017VEGA, R., DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., ENCINA, F. and MARDONES, A., 2017. Ecology of benthic crustaceans in Cautin river (39° S, Araucania region, Chile). Crustaceana, vol. 90, no. 6, pp. 709-719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003689.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
).

3.3. Current trends in the ecology of macroinvertebrates in Tolten river

The current situation with regard to the ecosystem(s) of the River Tolten as estimated herein from literature data as well as a series of preliminary observations. Concurrently, it is necessary to perform detailed studies on the role of both the native and the introduced fishes in the now existing ecosystems, especially also their influence on the abundance of the various macroinvertebrate benthic species (see. e.g., Campos, 1973CAMPOS, H., 1973. Introducción de especies exóticas y su relación con los peces de agua dulce de Chile. Noticiario Mensual Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, vol. 17, no. 198-199, pp. 3-14.; Urzúa et al., 1977URZUA, R., DIAZ, C., KARMY, E. and MORENO, C., 1977. Alimentación natural de Basilchthys australis (Eigenmann) en Tejas Verdes, Chile (Atheriniformes, Atherinidae). Biología Pesquera, Chile, vol. 9, pp. 45-61.; Ferriz, 1984FERRIZ, R.A., 1984. Alimentación del puyen Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns), en el río Limay, Provincia de Neuquén. Physis, Seccion B, vol. 42, no. 102, pp. 29-32., 1989FERRIZ, R.A., 1989. Alimentación de Percichthys colhuapiensis (Mac Donagh, 1955) y P. trucha (Girard, 1854) (Osteichthyes, Percichthyidae) en el embalse Ramos Mexía, Provincia del Neuquén, Argentina. Iheringia, vol. 69, pp. 109-116., 2000FERRIZ, R.A., 2000. Alimentación de Percichthys colhuapiensis Mac Donagh, 1955 (Pisces: Percichthydae) en la alta cuenca del río Negro, Argentina. Bioikos, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 44-48.; Artigas et al., 1985ARTIGAS, J.N., CAMPUSANO, E. and GONZÁLEZ, U., 1985. Contribución al conocimiento de la biología y hábitos alimentarios de Salmo gairneri (Richardson, 1836) en lago Laja (Chile). Gayana, vol. 49, pp. 3-29.; Ruiz et al., 1993RUIZ, V.H., LÓPEZ, M.T., MOYANO, H. and MARCHANT, M., 1993. Ictiología del alto Bíobío: aspectos taxonómicos, alimentarios, reproductivos y ecológicos una discusión sobre la Hoya. Gayana. Zoología, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 77-88.; Ruiz, 1996RUIZ, V., 1996. Ictiofauna del río Laja (VIII Región, Chile): una evaluación preliminar. Boletín de la Sociedad de Biología de Concepción, vol. 67, pp. 15-21.; Ferriz and Salas, 1996FERRIZ, R.A. and SALAS, W., 1996. Dieta de Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns, 1842) (Salmoniformes, Galaxiidae) en un embalse norpatagónico. Bollino Museo Regionale di Science Naturale, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 249-257.; Macchi et al., 1999MACCHI, P.J., CUSSAC, V.E., ALONSO, M.F. and DENEGRI, M.A., 1999. Predation relationships between introduced salmonids and the native fish fauna in lakes and reservoirs in northern Patagonia. Ecology Freshwater Fish, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 227-236. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0633.1999.tb00074.x.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0633.19...
, 2007MACCHI, P.J., PASCUAL, M.A. and VIGLIANO, P.H., 2007. Differential piscivory of the native Percichthys trucha and exotic salmonids upon the native forage fish Galaxias maculatus in Patagonian Andean lakes. Limnologica, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 76-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2006.09.004.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2006.0...
; Ruzzante et al., 1998RUZZANTE, D.E., WALDE, S.J., CUSSAC, V.E., MACCHI, P.J. and ALONSO, M.F., 1998. Trophic polymorphism, habitat and diet segregation in Percichthys trucha (Pisces: Percichthydae) in the Andes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 191-214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1998.tb00355.x.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.19...
; Habit et al., 2006HABIT, E., DYER, B. and VILA, I., 2006. Estado de conocimiento de los peces dulceacuícolas de Chile. Gayana, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 100-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382006000100016.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382006...
, 2010HABIT, E., PIEDRA, P., RUZZANTE, D.E., WALDE, S.J., BELK, M.C., CUSSAC, V.E., GONZALEZ, J. and COLIN, N., 2010. Changes in the distribution of native fishes in response to introduced species and other anthropogenic effects. Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 697-710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00541.x.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.20...
, 2012HABIT, E., GONZALEZ, J., RUZZANTE, D.E. and WALDE, S.J., 2012. Native and introduced fish species richness in Chilean Patagonian lakes: inferences on invasion mechanisms using salmonid-free lakes. Diversity & Distributions, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 1153-1165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00906.x.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.20...
; Soto et al., 2006SOTO, D., ARISMENDI, I., GONZALEZ, J., SANZANA, J., JARA, F., JARA, C., GUZMAN, E. and LARA, A., 2006. Sur de Chile, país de truchas y salmones: patrones de invasión y amenazas para las especies nativas. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 97-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2006000100009.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2006...
, 2007SOTO, D., ARISMENDI, I., PRINZIO, C. and JARA, F., 2007. Establishment of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in Pacific basins of southern South America and its potential ecosystem implications. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 81-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000100007.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007...
; Colin et al., 2012COLIN, N., PIEDRA, P. and HABIT, E., 2012. Variaciones espaciales y temporales de las comunidades ribereñas de peces en un sistema fluvial no intervenido: río San Pedro, Cuenca del Río Valdivia (Chile). Gayana, vol. 76, suppl. 1, pp. 24-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100003.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012...
; Piedra et al., 2012PIEDRA, P., HABIT, E., OYANEDEL, A., COLIN, N., SOLIS-LUFÍ, K., GONZALEZ, J., JARA, A., ORTIZ, N. and CIFUENTES, R., 2012. Patrones de desplazamiento de peces nativos en el Río San Pedro (cuenca del Río Valdivia, Chile). Gayana, vol. 76, suppl. 1, pp. 59-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100006.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012...
; Valdovinos et al., 2012VALDOVINOS, C., HABIT, E., JARA, A., PIEDRA, P., GONZÁLEZ, J. and SALVO, J., 2012. Dinámica espacio-temporal de 13 especies de peces nativos en un ecotono lacustre-fluvial de la Cuenca del Río Valdivia (Chile). Gayana, vol. 76, suppl. 1, pp. 45-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100005.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012...
; Vargas et al., 2015VARGAS, P.V., ARISMENDI, I. and GOMEZ-UCHIDA, D., 2015. Evaluating taxonomic homogenization of freshwater fish assemblages in Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40693-015-0046-2.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40693-015-004...
).

Other important factor that would affect the trophic interactions between fishes and benthic invertrebrates, in Tolten river would be the human intervention in the surrounding basin (Encina et al., 2017ENCINA, F., VEGA, R., LARA, G. and DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., 2017. Ecological role of benthic crustaceans in Chilean North Patagonian lakes and rivers (Araucania region, 39°S). Crustaceana, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 437-447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003643.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003...
), in high zones there are agricultural zones, whereas in the medium zones of the stream, there is one small town (Pitrufquén), and in low zones of the stream there is one small town (Toltén) inevitably with the associated anthropogenic pollution (Rivera et al., 2004RIVERA, N.R., ENCINA, F., MUÑOZ-PEDREROS, A. and MEJIAS, P., 2004. La calidad de las aguas en los ríos Cautín e Imperial, IX región, Chile. Información Tecnológica, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 89-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-07642004000500013.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-07642004...
), such as was observed for Cautin river and Gibbgs channel that are associated to Temuco town (Figueroa, 2000FIGUEROA, D., 2000. Efectos de la urbanización sobre las comunidades de macroinvertebrados bentónicos, en el curso principal del río Cautín, IX, región, Chile. Valdivia: Universidad Austral de Chile, 77 p. MsC Thesis in Limnology”.; Correa-Araneda et al., 2010CORREA-ARANEDA, F., CONTRERAS, A. and DE LOS RÍOS, P., 2010. Amphipoda and Decapoda as potential bioindicators of water quality in an urban stream (38ºS, Temuco, Chile). Crustaceana, vol. 83, no. 8, pp. 897-902. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/001121610X502948.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/001121610X5029...
; Santiago et al., 2016SANTIAGO, C.M., RAGGI, J.P.F. and ERICES, L.V., 2016. Urban growth trends in midsize Chilean cities: the case of Temuco. urbe. Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 375-389. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2175-3369.008.003.AO07.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2175-3369.008....
)

Another important aspect is formed by the component of the salmonids in the ecosystem(s). These fishes are active predators on macroinvertebrates and fish, while the native fish, that predate, inter alia, on microcrustaceans and small larval insects stages. Together, these elements in the food web would have a potential cascade effect considering the trophic interactions between benthivorous fishes, and top predator fishes that would affect the low trophic levels on which also the macroinvertebrates must be important at bottom level (Habit et al., 2005HABIT, E., VICTORIANO, P. and CAMPOS, H., 2005. Ecología trófica y aspectos reproductivos de Trichomycterus areolatus (Pisces, Trichomycteridae) en ambientes lóticos artificiales. Revista de Biología Tropical, vol. 53, no. 1-2, pp. 195-210. PMid:17354433.; Soto et al., 2006SOTO, D., ARISMENDI, I., GONZALEZ, J., SANZANA, J., JARA, F., JARA, C., GUZMAN, E. and LARA, A., 2006. Sur de Chile, país de truchas y salmones: patrones de invasión y amenazas para las especies nativas. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 97-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2006000100009.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2006...
, 2007SOTO, D., ARISMENDI, I., PRINZIO, C. and JARA, F., 2007. Establishment of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in Pacific basins of southern South America and its potential ecosystem implications. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 81-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000100007.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007...
; Arismendi et al., 2009ARISMENDI, I., SOTO, D., PENALUNA, B., JARA, C., LEAL, C. and LEÓN-MUÑOZ, J., 2009. Aquaculture, non native salmonid invasions and associated declines of native fishes in northern Patagonian lakes. Freshwater Biology, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1135-1147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02157.x.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.20...
; Penaluna et al., 2009PENALUNA, B.E., ARISMENDI, I. and SOTO, D., 2009. Evidence of interactive segregation between introduced trout and native fishes in northern Patagonian rivers, Chile. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, vol. 138, no. 4, pp. 839-845. http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/T08-134.1.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/T08-134.1...
). The literature revealed the existence of such cascade effects in small rivers and streams with presence of salmonids, where, in contrast, it is possible to find abundant populations of native fishes and benthic macroinvertebrates in both Argentinean and Chilean Patagonian rivers (Fischer, 1963FISCHER, W., 1963. Die fisches des Brackwassergebietes Lenga bei Concepción, Chile. International Revue Gessamt Hidrobiologie, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 419-511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iroh.19630480303.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iroh.196304803...
; Grossman, 1993GROSSMAN, M.F., 1993. Interacciones tróficas entre trucha arco iris (Oncorhynchus mykiss), pejerrey patagónico (Patagonina hatcheri) y perca (Percichthys trucha) en un ambiente patagónico. Revista de la Asociacion de Ciencias Naturales del Litoral, vol. 24/25, pp. 15-25.; Soto et al., 2006SOTO, D., ARISMENDI, I., GONZALEZ, J., SANZANA, J., JARA, F., JARA, C., GUZMAN, E. and LARA, A., 2006. Sur de Chile, país de truchas y salmones: patrones de invasión y amenazas para las especies nativas. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 97-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2006000100009.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2006...
, 2007SOTO, D., ARISMENDI, I., PRINZIO, C. and JARA, F., 2007. Establishment of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in Pacific basins of southern South America and its potential ecosystem implications. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 81-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000100007.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007...
; Young et al., 2010YOUNG, K.A., DUNHAM, J.B., STEPHENSON, J.F., TERREAU, A., THAILLY, A.F., GAJARDO, G. and GARCIA DE LEANIZ, C., 2010. A trial of two trouts: comparing the impacts of rainbow and brown trout on a native galaxiid. Animal Conservation, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 399-410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2010.00354.x.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1795.20...
; Ibarra et al., 2011IBARRA, J., HABIT, E., BARRA, R. and SOLIS, K., 2011. Juveniles de salmón Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha Walbaum, 1792) en ríos y lagos de la Patagonia chilena. Gayana (Concepción), vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 17-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382011000100002.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382011...
), as part of complex trophic web interaction systems when no introduced salmonids are present (Ings et al., 2009INGS, T.C., MONTOYA, J.M., BASCOMPTE, J., BLÜTHGEN, N., BROWN, L., DORMANN, C.F., EDWARDS, F., FIGUEROA, D., JACOB, U., JONES, J.I., LAURIDSEN, R.B., LEDGER, M.E., LEWIS, H.M., OLESEN, J.M., VAN VEEN, F.J., WARREN, P.H. and WOODWARD, G., 2009. Ecological networks: beyond food webs. Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 253-269. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01460.x. PMid:19120606.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.20...
; Woodward et al., 2010WOODWARD, G., BLANCHARD, J., LAURIDSEN, R.B., EDWARDS, F.K., JONES, J.I., FIGUEROA, D., WARREN, P.H. and PETCHEY, O.L., 2010. Individual-based food webs: species indentity, body size and sampling effects. Advances in Ecological Research, vol. 43, pp. 211-266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385005-8.00006-X.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-3850...
; Schmid-Araya et al., 2012SCHMID-ARAYA, J.M., FIGUEROA HERNANDEZ, D., SCHMID, P. and DROUOT, C., 2012. Algivory in food webs of three temperate Andean rivers. Austral Ecology, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 440-451. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02298.x.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.20...
). In conclusion, according to the present extensive literature research as well as to the preliminary observations made until now, it would be necessary to study the populations of benthic macroinvertebrates with an emphasis on the conservation biology of these taxa. Only then it shall be able to actually evaluate their important role in the ecosystem of the river as detritivorous of particulate organic matter, among others, and as prey of the endemic, native fishes. This would also clearly reveal the potential threats posed by the predation activity of introduced salmonids, and as a result of the changes due to human alterations in the surrounding catchment basins.

Acknowledgements

The present study was funded by the project MECESUP UCT 0804. We also express our gratitude to M. I., and S.M.A.,for their valuable comments that improved the manuscript.

  • (With 1 figure)

References

  • ARENAS, J., 1978. Análisis de la alimentación de Salmo gairdneri Richardson en el lago Riñihue y río San Pedro. Medio Ambiente, vol. 3, pp. 50-58.
  • ARENAS, J., 1995. Composición y distribución del macrozoobentos del curso principal del rio Biobio, Chile. Medio Ambiente, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 39-50.
  • ARISMENDI, I., SOTO, D., PENALUNA, B., JARA, C., LEAL, C. and LEÓN-MUÑOZ, J., 2009. Aquaculture, non native salmonid invasions and associated declines of native fishes in northern Patagonian lakes. Freshwater Biology, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1135-1147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02157.x
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02157.x
  • ARTIGAS, J.N., CAMPUSANO, E. and GONZÁLEZ, U., 1985. Contribución al conocimiento de la biología y hábitos alimentarios de Salmo gairneri (Richardson, 1836) en lago Laja (Chile). Gayana, vol. 49, pp. 3-29.
  • BARILE, J., ESCUDERO, M. and DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., 2018. Ecology of benthic crustaceans in the Toltén river (39°S, Araucania region, Chile). Crustaceana, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 127-131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003743
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003743
  • BARROS, R., 1931. Introducción de un nuevo salmón en Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 31, pp. 262-265.
  • BASTIAS, L., 2013. Morfología e ítem alimentario de poblaciones silvestres de juveniles de cauque del Maule, Odonthestes mauleanum (Steinchader, 1896) con peces capturados en al cuenca del río Toltén, IX. Región de la Araucanía Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 33 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura.
  • CAMPOS, H., 1972. Breeding season and early development of Brachygalaxias bullocki (Osteichthyes: galaxiidae). The Texas Journal of Science, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 531-544.
  • CAMPOS, H., 1973. Introducción de especies exóticas y su relación con los peces de agua dulce de Chile. Noticiario Mensual Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, vol. 17, no. 198-199, pp. 3-14.
  • CAMPOS, H., 1985. Distribution of the Fishes in the Andean rivers in the South of Chile. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, vol. 104, pp. 169-191.
  • CAMPOS, H., ALAY, F., RUIZ, V. and GAVILÁN, J., 1993a. Antecedentes biológicos de la fauna íctica presente en la hoya hidrográfica del río Bío Bio. In: F. FARANDA and O. PARRA, eds. Evaluación de la calidad del agua y ecología del sistema limnético y fluvial del río Biobío Concepción, Chile: Editorial Universidad de Concepción. Serie Monografías Científicas Eula.
  • CAMPOS, H., DAZAROLA, G., DYER, B., FUENTES, L., GAVILÁN, J.F., HUAQUÍN, L., MARTÍNEZ, G., MELÉNDEZ, R., PEQUEÑO, G., PONCE, F., RUIZ, V.H., SIELFELD, W., SOTO, D., VEGA, R. and VILA, I., 1998. Categorías de conservación de peces nativos de aguas continentales de Chile. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, vol. 47, pp. 101-122.
  • CAMPOS, H., RUIZ, V., GAVILÁN, J. and ALAY, F., 1993b. Peces del río Bio Bío Concepción, Chile: Editorial Universidad de Concepción, 100 p. Serie Publicaciones de Divulgación EULA.
  • CHILE. Servicio Nacional de Pesca y Acuicultura – SERNAPESCA [online], 2016 [viewed 22 March 2017]. Available from: http://www.sernapesca.cl
    » http://www.sernapesca.cl
  • COLIN, N., PIEDRA, P. and HABIT, E., 2012. Variaciones espaciales y temporales de las comunidades ribereñas de peces en un sistema fluvial no intervenido: río San Pedro, Cuenca del Río Valdivia (Chile). Gayana, vol. 76, suppl. 1, pp. 24-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100003
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100003
  • CORREA-ARANEDA, F., CONTRERAS, A. and DE LOS RÍOS, P., 2010. Amphipoda and Decapoda as potential bioindicators of water quality in an urban stream (38ºS, Temuco, Chile). Crustaceana, vol. 83, no. 8, pp. 897-902. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/001121610X502948
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/001121610X502948
  • DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., MERUANE, J., MORALES, M.C., RUDOLPH, E., FUENTEALBA, C. and BOXSHALL, G., 2013. Zoogeography of Chilean inland water crustaceans. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 846-853. http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol41-issue5-fulltext-5
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol41-issue5-fulltext-5
  • DE LOS RIOS-ESCALANTE, P., SOLÍS-LUFÍ, K., RODRÍGUEZ-ORTIZ, R. and FARÍAS, J., 2020. First report on seasonal abundance of malacostracans in the Allipen river (38º51’S, North Patagonia, Araucania region, Chile). Crustaceana, vol. 93, no. 6, pp. 653-659. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-bja10020
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-bja10020
  • DOMINGUEZ, E. and FERNANDEZ, H.R., eds., 2009. Macroinvertebrados bentónicos sudamericanos: sistemática y biología Argentina: Fundación Miguel Lillo Tucuman, 656 p.
  • ENCINA, F., VEGA, R., LARA, G. and DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., 2017. Ecological role of benthic crustaceans in Chilean North Patagonian lakes and rivers (Araucania region, 39°S). Crustaceana, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 437-447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003643
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003643
  • FERRADA, R., 2015. Caracterización estacional (otoño-invierno) del ítem alimentario, relación longitud-peso e índice de condición del bagre pintado, Trichomycterus aerolatus (Valenciennes, 1846) de la cuenca del río Toltén, región de la Araucanía Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 28 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura.
  • FERRIZ, R.A. and SALAS, W., 1996. Dieta de Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns, 1842) (Salmoniformes, Galaxiidae) en un embalse norpatagónico. Bollino Museo Regionale di Science Naturale, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 249-257.
  • FERRIZ, R.A., 1984. Alimentación del puyen Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns), en el río Limay, Provincia de Neuquén. Physis, Seccion B, vol. 42, no. 102, pp. 29-32.
  • FERRIZ, R.A., 1989. Alimentación de Percichthys colhuapiensis (Mac Donagh, 1955) y P. trucha (Girard, 1854) (Osteichthyes, Percichthyidae) en el embalse Ramos Mexía, Provincia del Neuquén, Argentina. Iheringia, vol. 69, pp. 109-116.
  • FERRIZ, R.A., 2000. Alimentación de Percichthys colhuapiensis Mac Donagh, 1955 (Pisces: Percichthydae) en la alta cuenca del río Negro, Argentina. Bioikos, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 44-48.
  • FIERRO, P., BERTRAN, C., MERCADO, M., PENA CORTES, F., TAPIA, J., HAUENSTEIN, E., CAPUTO, L. and VARGAS CHACOFF, L., 2015. Landscape composition as determinant of diversity and functional feeding groups of aquatic macroinvertebrates in southern rivers of the Araucania, Chile. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 186-200. http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol43-issue1-fulltext-16
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol43-issue1-fulltext-16
  • FIERRO, P., BERTRÁN, C., MERCADO, M., PEÑA-CORTÉS, F., TAPIA, J., HAUENSTEIN, E. and VARGAS-CHACOFF, L., 2012. Benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages as indicators of water quality applying a modified biotic index in a spatio-seasonal context in a coastal basin of Southern Chile. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 23-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-19572012000100003
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-19572012000100003
  • FIERRO, P., QUILODRÁN, L., BERTRÁN, C., ARISMENDI, I., TAPIA, J., PEÑA-CORTÉS, F., HAUENSTEIN, E., ARRIAGADA, R., FERNÁNDEZ, E. and VARGAS-CHACOFF, L., 2016. Rainbow trout diets and macroinvertebrates assemblages responses from watersheds dominated by native and exotic plantations. Ecological Indicators, vol. 60, pp. 655-667. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.08.018
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.08.018
  • FIGUEROA, D., 2000. Efectos de la urbanización sobre las comunidades de macroinvertebrados bentónicos, en el curso principal del río Cautín, IX, región, Chile Valdivia: Universidad Austral de Chile, 77 p. MsC Thesis in Limnology”.
  • FIGUEROA, R., BONADA, N., GUEVARA, M., PEDREROS, P., CORREA-ARANEDA, F., DÍAZ, M.E. and RUIZ, V.H., 2013. Freshwater biodiversity and conservation in mediterranean climate streams of Chile. Hydrobiologia, vol. 719, no. 1, pp. 269-289. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-013-1685-4
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-013-1685-4
  • FIGUEROA, R., PALMA, A., RUIZ, V. and NIELL, X., 2007. Análisis comparativo de índices bióticos utilizados en la evaluación de la calidad de aguas en un río mediterráneo de Chile, río Chillán, VIII región. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 225-242. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000200008
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000200008
  • FIGUEROA, R., RUIZ, V.H., BERRÍOS, P., PALMA, A., VILLEGAS, P. and ANDREU-SOLER, A., 2010. Trophic ecology of native and introduced fish species from Chillan river, south-central Chile. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 78-83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2009.01347.x
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2009.01347.x
  • FIGUEROA, R., VALDOVINOS, C., ARAYA, E. and PARRA, O., 2006. Macroinvertebrados bentónicos como indicadores de calidad de agua de ríos del sur de Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 275-285. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2003000200012
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2003000200012
  • FISCHER, W., 1963. Die fisches des Brackwassergebietes Lenga bei Concepción, Chile. International Revue Gessamt Hidrobiologie, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 419-511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iroh.19630480303
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iroh.19630480303
  • GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION FACILITY – GBIF [online], 2019. [viewed 20 November 2019]. Available from:https://www.gbif.org/
    » https://www.gbif.org/
  • GOLUSDA, P., 1907. La introducción del salmón en Chile Santiago de Chile: Anales Agronómicos, 30 p.
  • GOLUSDA, P., 1927. Aclimatación y cultivo de especies salmonídeas en Chile. Boletín de la Sociedad de Biología de Concepción, vol. 1, pp. 80-100.
  • GORSKI, K., HABIT, E.M., PINGRAM, M.A. and MANOSALVA, A.J., 2015. Variation of the use of marine resources by Galaxias maculatus in large Chilean rivers. Hydrobiologia, vol. 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-015-2542-4
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-015-2542-4
  • GROSSMAN, M.F., 1993. Interacciones tróficas entre trucha arco iris (Oncorhynchus mykiss), pejerrey patagónico (Patagonina hatcheri) y perca (Percichthys trucha) en un ambiente patagónico. Revista de la Asociacion de Ciencias Naturales del Litoral, vol. 24/25, pp. 15-25.
  • HABIT, E., DYER, B. and VILA, I., 2006. Estado de conocimiento de los peces dulceacuícolas de Chile. Gayana, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 100-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382006000100016
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382006000100016
  • HABIT, E., GONZALEZ, J., RUZZANTE, D.E. and WALDE, S.J., 2012. Native and introduced fish species richness in Chilean Patagonian lakes: inferences on invasion mechanisms using salmonid-free lakes. Diversity & Distributions, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 1153-1165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00906.x
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00906.x
  • HABIT, E., PIEDRA, P., RUZZANTE, D.E., WALDE, S.J., BELK, M.C., CUSSAC, V.E., GONZALEZ, J. and COLIN, N., 2010. Changes in the distribution of native fishes in response to introduced species and other anthropogenic effects. Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 697-710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00541.x
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00541.x
  • HABIT, E., VICTORIANO, P. and CAMPOS, H., 2005. Ecología trófica y aspectos reproductivos de Trichomycterus areolatus (Pisces, Trichomycteridae) en ambientes lóticos artificiales. Revista de Biología Tropical, vol. 53, no. 1-2, pp. 195-210. PMid:17354433.
  • HYSLOP, E.J., 1980. Stomach content analysis. A review of methods and their application. Journal of Fish Biology, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 411-429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1980.tb02775.x
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1980.tb02775.x
  • IBARRA, J., HABIT, E., BARRA, R. and SOLIS, K., 2011. Juveniles de salmón Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha Walbaum, 1792) en ríos y lagos de la Patagonia chilena. Gayana (Concepción), vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 17-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382011000100002
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382011000100002
  • INGS, T.C., MONTOYA, J.M., BASCOMPTE, J., BLÜTHGEN, N., BROWN, L., DORMANN, C.F., EDWARDS, F., FIGUEROA, D., JACOB, U., JONES, J.I., LAURIDSEN, R.B., LEDGER, M.E., LEWIS, H.M., OLESEN, J.M., VAN VEEN, F.J., WARREN, P.H. and WOODWARD, G., 2009. Ecological networks: beyond food webs. Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 253-269. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01460.x PMid:19120606.
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01460.x
  • JARA, C., 2013. A checklist of the Chilean species of the genus Aegla (Decapoda, Anomura, Aeglidae). Crustaceana, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 1433-1440. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003258
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003258
  • JARA, C., RUDOLPH, E.H. and GONZALEZ, E.R., 2006. Estados de conocimiento de los malacostracos dulceacuícolas. Gayana, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 40-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382006000100008
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382006000100008
  • KRISTENSEN, T., ÅTLAND, Å., ROSTEN, T., URKE, H.A. and ROSSELAND, B.O., 2009. Important influent-water quality parameters at freshwater production sites in two salmon producing countries. Aquacultural Engineering, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 53-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaeng.2009.06.009
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaeng.2009.06.009
  • MACCHI, P.J., CUSSAC, V.E., ALONSO, M.F. and DENEGRI, M.A., 1999. Predation relationships between introduced salmonids and the native fish fauna in lakes and reservoirs in northern Patagonia. Ecology Freshwater Fish, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 227-236. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0633.1999.tb00074.x
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0633.1999.tb00074.x
  • MACCHI, P.J., PASCUAL, M.A. and VIGLIANO, P.H., 2007. Differential piscivory of the native Percichthys trucha and exotic salmonids upon the native forage fish Galaxias maculatus in Patagonian Andean lakes. Limnologica, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 76-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2006.09.004
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2006.09.004
  • MOYA, C., VALDOVINOS, C., MORAGA, A., ROMERO, F., DEBELS, P. and OYANEDEL, A., 2009. Patrones de distribución espacial de ensambles de macroinvertebrados bentónicos de un sistema fluvial Andino Patagónico. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 82, no. 3, pp. 425-442. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2009000300009
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2009000300009
  • NIEMEYER, H. and CERECEDA, P., 1984. Hidrografia Santiago de Chile: Instituto Geográfico Militar, 320 p.
  • NIMPTSCH, J., WOELFL, S., OSORIO, S., VALENZUELA, J., EBERSBACH, P., VON TUEMPLING, W., PALMA, R., ENCINA, F., FIGUEROA, D., KAMJUNKE, N. and GRAEBER, D., 2015. Tracing dissolved organic matter (DOM) from land-based aquaculture systems in North Patagonian streams. The Science of the Total Environment, vol. 537, pp. 129-138. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.160 PMid:26282747.
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.160
  • NOA, E., 2013. Relación longitud-peso, factor de condición e ítem alimentario de poblaciones silvestres de bagre pintado Trichomycterus aerolatus (Valenciennes, 1840) con peces capturados en la cuenca del río Toltén, IX región de la Araucanía Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 24 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura.
  • OYANEDEL, A., KIESSLING, G., VALDOVINOS, C., SALVO, J., SANDOVAL, N., OLMOS, V. and MOYA, C., 2011. The Southernmost freshwater anomuran of the world: geographic distribution and new records of Patagonian Aeglids (Decapoda: Aeglidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 396-400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1651/10-3427.1
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1651/10-3427.1
  • OYANEDEL, A., VALDOVINOS, C., AZOCAR, M., MOYA, C., MANCILLA, G., PEDREROS, P. and FIGUEROA, R., 2008. Patrones de distribución espacial de los macroinvertebrados bentónicos de la cuenca del río Aysen (Patagonia Chilena). Gayana, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 241-257. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382008000200011
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382008000200011
  • PADILLA, A., 2015. Características biométricas e ítem alimentario en una población de Percilia gillissi (Girard 1855) en el río Toltén, región de la Araucanía Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 26 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura.
  • PALMA, A., FIGUEROA, R., RUIZ, V.H., ARAYA, E. and BERRÍOS, P., 2002. Composición de la dieta de Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792) (Pisces: Salmonidae) en un sistema fluvial de baja intervención antrópica: estero Nonguén, VIII región, Chile. Gayana, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 129-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382002000200007
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382002000200007
  • PASCUAL, M.A. and CIANCIO, J.E. 2007. Introduced anadromous salmonids in Patagonia: risk, uses and a conservation paradox. In: T.M. BERT (Ed). Ecological and genetic implications of aquaculture activities Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 333-353. . http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6148-6_18
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6148-6_18
  • PENALUNA, B.E., ARISMENDI, I. and SOTO, D., 2009. Evidence of interactive segregation between introduced trout and native fishes in northern Patagonian rivers, Chile. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, vol. 138, no. 4, pp. 839-845. http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/T08-134.1
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/T08-134.1
  • PIEDRA, P., HABIT, E., OYANEDEL, A., COLIN, N., SOLIS-LUFÍ, K., GONZALEZ, J., JARA, A., ORTIZ, N. and CIFUENTES, R., 2012. Patrones de desplazamiento de peces nativos en el Río San Pedro (cuenca del Río Valdivia, Chile). Gayana, vol. 76, suppl. 1, pp. 59-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100006
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100006
  • QUEZADA, C., 2014. Relación longitud-peso, factor de condición y análisis de la dieta de Cheirodon australe (Eigenmann 1927) capturados en la cuenca del río Toltén, IX región de la Araucanía Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 27 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura.
  • RIVERA, N.R., ENCINA, F., MUÑOZ-PEDREROS, A. and MEJIAS, P., 2004. La calidad de las aguas en los ríos Cautín e Imperial, IX región, Chile. Información Tecnológica, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 89-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-07642004000500013
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-07642004000500013
  • RUDOLPH, E.H., 2013. A checklist of the Chilean Parastacidae (Decapoda, Astacidea). Crustaceana, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 1468-1510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003257
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003257
  • RUIZ, V., 1993. Ictiofauna del Río Andalien. Gayana. Zoología, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 109-278.
  • RUIZ, V., 1996. Ictiofauna del río Laja (VIII Región, Chile): una evaluación preliminar. Boletín de la Sociedad de Biología de Concepción, vol. 67, pp. 15-21.
  • RUIZ, V.H., LÓPEZ, M.T., MOYANO, H. and MARCHANT, M., 1993. Ictiología del alto Bíobío: aspectos taxonómicos, alimentarios, reproductivos y ecológicos una discusión sobre la Hoya. Gayana. Zoología, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 77-88.
  • RUZZANTE, D.E., WALDE, S.J., CUSSAC, V.E., MACCHI, P.J. and ALONSO, M.F., 1998. Trophic polymorphism, habitat and diet segregation in Percichthys trucha (Pisces: Percichthydae) in the Andes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 191-214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1998.tb00355.x
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1998.tb00355.x
  • SAEZ, J.L., 2013. Características biométricas e item alimentario en una población juvenil de Trichomycterus chiltoni (Eigenmann, 1928) en el río Toltén, región de la Araucanía Temuco: Universidad Católica de Temuco, 26 p. Tesis en Ciencias de la Acuicultura.
  • SANTIAGO, C.M., RAGGI, J.P.F. and ERICES, L.V., 2016. Urban growth trends in midsize Chilean cities: the case of Temuco. urbe. Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 375-389. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2175-3369.008.003.AO07
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2175-3369.008.003.AO07
  • SCHMID-ARAYA, J.M., FIGUEROA HERNANDEZ, D., SCHMID, P. and DROUOT, C., 2012. Algivory in food webs of three temperate Andean rivers. Austral Ecology, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 440-451. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02298.x
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02298.x
  • SCOPUS [online], 2019. [viewed 20 November 2019]. Available from:http://www.scopus.com
    » http://www.scopus.com
  • SOTO, D., ARISMENDI, I., GONZALEZ, J., SANZANA, J., JARA, F., JARA, C., GUZMAN, E. and LARA, A., 2006. Sur de Chile, país de truchas y salmones: patrones de invasión y amenazas para las especies nativas. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 97-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2006000100009
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2006000100009
  • SOTO, D., ARISMENDI, I., PRINZIO, C. and JARA, F., 2007. Establishment of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in Pacific basins of southern South America and its potential ecosystem implications. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 81-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000100007
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-078X2007000100007
  • TELLO, A., CORNER, R. and TELFER, T., 2010. How do land-based salmonid farms affect stream ecology? Environmental Pollution, vol. 158, no. 5, pp. 1147-1158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2009.11.029 PMid:20036452.
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2009.11.029
  • URZUA, R., DIAZ, C., KARMY, E. and MORENO, C., 1977. Alimentación natural de Basilchthys australis (Eigenmann) en Tejas Verdes, Chile (Atheriniformes, Atherinidae). Biología Pesquera, Chile, vol. 9, pp. 45-61.
  • VALDOVINOS, C., HABIT, E., JARA, A., PIEDRA, P., GONZÁLEZ, J. and SALVO, J., 2012. Dinámica espacio-temporal de 13 especies de peces nativos en un ecotono lacustre-fluvial de la Cuenca del Río Valdivia (Chile). Gayana, vol. 76, suppl. 1, pp. 45-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100005
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382012000100005
  • VARGAS, P.V., ARISMENDI, I. and GOMEZ-UCHIDA, D., 2015. Evaluating taxonomic homogenization of freshwater fish assemblages in Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40693-015-0046-2
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40693-015-0046-2
  • VARGAS, P.V., ARISMENDI, I., LARA, G., MILLAR, J. and PEREDO, S., 2010. Evidencia de solapamiento de micro-habitat entre juveniles de salmón introducido Oncorhynchus tshawytscha y el pez nativo Trichomicterus aerolatus en el río Allipén, Chile. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 285-292. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-19572010000200010
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-19572010000200010
  • VEGA, R., DANTAGNAN, P., MARDONES, A., VALDEBENITO, I., ZAMORANO, J. and ENCINA, F., 2013. Bases biológicas para el cultivo del puye Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns, 1842): una revisión. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 369-386.
  • VEGA, R., DE LOS RÍOS, P., ENCINA, F., NORAMBUENA, J.A., BARILE, J. and MARDONES, A., 2020. First report of inventary and role of macroinvertebrates and fish in Cautin river (38°S, Araucania region, Chile). Brazilian Journal of Biology = Revista Brasileira de Biologia, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 215-228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.203511 PMid:31066767.
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.203511
  • VEGA, R., DE LOS RÍOS-ESCALANTE, P., ENCINA, F. and MARDONES, A., 2017. Ecology of benthic crustaceans in Cautin river (39° S, Araucania region, Chile). Crustaceana, vol. 90, no. 6, pp. 709-719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003689
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003689
  • VERA, A., OJEDA, P., OROSTICA, A. and MUÑOZ, F., 2015. Catálogo actualizado de los Baetidae (Ephemeroptera) presentes en Chile y su distribución geográfica. Revista Chilena de Entomologia, vol. 40, pp. 37-50.
  • VILA, I., FUENTES, L. and SAAVEDRA, M., 1999. Ictiofauna en los sistemas limínicos de la Isla Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 273-284.
  • WETZLAR, H., 1979. Beiträge zur biologie und Bewirtschaftung von Forellen (Salmo gairdneri und S. trutta) in Chile Freiburg, Germany: Albert Ludwigs Universität, 264 p. Ph.D. Thesis Dissertation Biology
  • WINDELL, J.T., 1971. Food analysis and rate of digestion. In: W. E. RICKER, ed. Methods for assessment of fish production in fresh waters Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 215-226.
  • WOODWARD, G., BLANCHARD, J., LAURIDSEN, R.B., EDWARDS, F.K., JONES, J.I., FIGUEROA, D., WARREN, P.H. and PETCHEY, O.L., 2010. Individual-based food webs: species indentity, body size and sampling effects. Advances in Ecological Research, vol. 43, pp. 211-266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385005-8.00006-X
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385005-8.00006-X
  • YOSHIDA, C.E. and UIEDA, V.S., 2014. The importance of a Biosphere Reserve of Atlantic Forest for the conservation of stream fauna. Brazilian Journal of Biology = Revista Brasileira de Biologia, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 382-394. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.26512 PMid:25166323.
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.26512
  • YOUNG, K.A., DUNHAM, J.B., STEPHENSON, J.F., TERREAU, A., THAILLY, A.F., GAJARDO, G. and GARCIA DE LEANIZ, C., 2010. A trial of two trouts: comparing the impacts of rainbow and brown trout on a native galaxiid. Animal Conservation, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 399-410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2010.00354.x
    » http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2010.00354.x

Publication Dates

  • Publication in this collection
    21 Sept 2020
  • Date of issue
    Jul-Sep 2021

History

  • Received
    30 Dec 2019
  • Accepted
    27 Mar 2020
  • Published
    31 Aug 2021
Instituto Internacional de Ecologia R. Bento Carlos, 750, 13560-660 São Carlos SP - Brasil, Tel. e Fax: (55 16) 3362-5400 - São Carlos - SP - Brazil
E-mail: bjb@bjb.com.br