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Collapse of the native ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua) population in the Biesbosch lakes (the Netherlands) owing to round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) invasion

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We investigated the change in benthic fish communities in three artificial lakes of the Biesbosch area in the Netherlands between two time periods: before and after the invasion of round goby (Neogobius melanostomus). Native ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua), the dominant species in benthic gillnet and littoral beach seining catches before the invasion, almost completely disappeared in all lakes only 2 years after the invasion. We found a significant increase in 0 + perch (Perca fluviatilis) and, in some lakes, pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) abundance in gillnet catches after invasion. In the post-invasion period, the 0 + fish community was dominated by perch, and the older fish community was dominated by round goby. The species richness of 0 + fish increased in the post-invasion period owing to the invasion of gobiids. However, it did not change for older fish between periods. Our results clearly show that, owing to a similar benthic lifestyle and high niche overlap, ruffe was the only species negatively influenced by the round goby invasion. The competitive superiority of round goby over ruffe is so strong that the once-dominant species of the overall benthic fish community collapsed after only a few years of coexistence.

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We thank Zdeněk Prachař, Kateřina Soukalová, Afra Wagenvoort and Frank Jonker for their help with the data collection; Leslie Tse for English correction; Evides Water Company for financial support; and two anonymous referees for valuable comments that helped improve the manuscript. This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 677039” project CLIMEFISH and by program COST-CZ under Contract Number MSMT-LD15021. This publication reflects the views of only the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

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  1. Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Sádkách 7, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Jůza, Petr Blabolil, Roman Baran, Daniel Bartoň, Martin Čech, Vladislav Draštík, Jaroslava Frouzová, Michaela Holubová, Luboš Kočvara, Jan Kubečka, Milan Muška, Marie Prchalová, Milan Říha, Zuzana Sajdlová, Marek Šmejkal, Michal Tušer, Mojmír Vašek, Lukáš Vejřík, Ivana Vejříková, Jakub Žák & Jiří Peterka

  2. Evides Water Company, PO Box 4472, 3006 AL, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Henk A. M. Ketelaars

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Jůza, T., Blabolil, P., Baran, R. et al. Collapse of the native ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua) population in the Biesbosch lakes (the Netherlands) owing to round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) invasion. Biol Invasions 20, 1523–1535 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1644-5

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