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Clearcutting and deforestation lead to increased erosion, increased water temperature, altered water chemistry, and modified watershed hydrology in aquatic systems. Effects on biological organisms have been documented for phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthos, and fish. In this study, parasites of the northern redbelly dace, Phoxinus eos (Cope), were examined from an experimental area consisting of headwater lakes and their watersheds in the boreal forest of Ontario, Canada prior to and after clearcutting around the lakes. Catchments of two lakes were heavily, and one lake partially, clearcut in 1996, and that of a fourth lake was untouched. In 1993, three years prior to clearcutting, five taxa of parasites, including the monogeneans Dactylogyrus sp. and Gyrodactylus sp., metacercaria of the digenean Clinostomum complanatum (Rudolphi, 1819), the nematode Rhabdochona canadensis Moravec et Arai, 1971 and the myxozoan Myxobolus sp. were found in or on northern redbelly dace. In 1998, two years after clearcutting, eight taxa were found on northern redbelly dace, including all of the above plus the digeneans Allocreadium sp. and Ornithodiplostomum ptychocheilus (Faust, 1917) and the copepod Ergasilus lizae Krøyer, 1863. Mean infracommunity species richness and the maximum number of species per fish were higher in the control and partially cut lake than in the heavily logged lakes. Uninfected fish were found in the heavily cut lakes, but not in the other lakes. Thus, disturbance may reduce parasite infracommunity complexity. Among individual parasite species, R. canadensis was absent from the two most heavily clearcut lakes and abundant in the two other lakes in 1998. Clearcutting may have affected the abundance of certain invertebrates in these lakes, in particular the mayflies that serve as intermediate hosts for R. canadensis. The parasites Allocreadium sp., O. ptychocheilus, and E. lizae have not been previously reported in or on northern redbelly dace.

Potential impacts of clearcutting on parasites of minnows in small boreal lakes