| Impact ID |
Scientific Name
|
Impact Type
|
Study Type
|
Study Location
|
Impact Description
|
Geographic Location
|
Reference
|
|
3711
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Observational
|
Field
|
Predation by rainbow smelt accounts for 15–52% and 37–100% of the mortality of larval ciscoes in Thunder
and Black bays
|
United States, Lake Superior
|
25840
|
|
3719
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Observational
|
Field
|
Osmerus mordax predate on age-O walleye and can reduce walleye age-0 densities by up to 70%.
|
United State, Wisconsin
|
17204
|
|
3721
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Observational
|
Field
|
Thermal overlap in Sparkling Lake may have placed young cisco in close
proximity to predatory adult smelt
during the summer months and indirectly led to the extirpation of cisco from the lake by 1990; only 8 years after smelt were detected.
|
United State, Wisconsin, Sparkling Lake
|
24332
|
|
3724
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Anecdotal
|
N/A
|
Large specimens (>150mm) predate heavily on other species and can reduce their populations.
|
United States, Great Lakes
|
772
|
|
3725
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Observational
|
Field
|
Deepwater sculpin may have disappeared from Lake Ontario due to rainbow smelt predation on sculpin eggs and larvae
|
United States, Lake Ontario
|
34414
|
|
3727
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Observational
|
Field
|
The introduction of rainbow smelt into Quabbin reservoir acted as prey resulting in the increased growth of smallmouth bass, chain pickerel, lake trout, and brown trout.
|
United States, Massachusetts, Quabbin Reservoir
|
34421
|
|
3728
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Observational
|
Field
|
Rainbow smelt predation on larval lake whitefish resulted in whitefish recruitment failure
|
Canada, Ontario, Twelve Mile Lake
|
34422
|
|
3729
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Observational
|
Field
|
Introduced rainbow smelt act as forage and increase salmon size
|
United State, Maine, Shoodic Lake
|
1720
|
|
3731
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Anecdotal
|
Field
|
Atlantic salmon prey on rainbow smelt, facilitating large salmon body sizes and persistence in high diversity environments
|
World
|
34436
|
|
3732
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Observational
|
Field
|
Chlorophyll a concentration is positively correlated with rainbow smelt energy density in Lake Huron/WB Lake Erie
|
United States, Lake Huron
|
34439
|
|
3737
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Observational
|
Field
|
Rainbow smelt predation on blue pike larvae led to the extinction of blue pike in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario
|
United States, Great Lakes
|
24330
|
|
3855
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Anecdotal
|
N/A
|
rainbow smelt preys on Eubosmia coregoni, Dreissena polymorpha (veligers?), and Bythotrephes longimanus
|
Great Lakes
|
13595
|
|
6710
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Anecdotal
|
N/A
|
In different ecosystems, rainbow smelt may be an important prey item, predator, or competitor (Evans and Loftus 1987); in many cases, it may participate in multiple roles relative to a native species.
|
|
24329
|
|
6712
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Anecdotal
|
N/A
|
In a review of rainbow smelt introductions in inland Ontario lakes, found that 13 of 24 lakes with introduced rainbow smelt experienced a decline in lake whitefish recruitment. Rainbow smelt are known to feed on the young of lake whitefish.
|
|
24329
|
|
6717
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Anecdotal
|
N/A
|
Rainbow smelt may be partially responsible for the decline of whitefishes (Coregonus spp.) in the Great Lakes
|
Great Lakes, USA
|
1441
|
|
6722
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Observational
|
Field
|
Declines, local extirpations, and limitations to recovery of cisco populations have also been attributed to rainbow smelt predation on larval fish rather than competition
|
Great Lakes, USA
|
24337
|
|
6723
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Anecdotal
|
N/A
|
Predation with rainbow smelt have been implicated in the declines of shortnose cisco (Coregonus reighardi).
|
Great Lakes, USA
|
24325
|
|
6724
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Anecdotal
|
N/A
|
Predation with rainbow smelt have been implicated in the declines of deepwater sculpin (Myoxocephalus thompsonii).
|
Great Lakes, USA
|
24326
|
|
6725
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Predation/Herbivory
|
Anecdotal
|
N/A
|
Predation with rainbow smelt have been implicated in the declines of blackfin cisco (Coregonus nigripinnis).
|
Great Lakes, USA
|
24327
|