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Development of the fish community in a new cooling reservoir in the southeastern USA
In this study, we sampled the fish community in a new reservoir during the first three years following impoundment. The rate and order in which species were introduced, and their fate was documented by continuous monitoring. Because the reservoir was located on the Savannah River Site, a restricted area owned by the Department of Energy (DOE), it was never fished. The data collected in this study permitted us to address the following questions concerning the development of the L Lake fish community: (1) What types of changes occurred during community development (2) Was community development a matter of chance or governed by deterministic biological processes (3) How did early colonizing species differ from the species of later developmental stages 6 figs., 6 tabs