Trophic segregation in multispecies community of salmonids in the Penzhina River lower course (Kamchatsky Krai, Russia)

• Published in: Nature Conservation Research
• Main Authors: Olesya Yu. Busarova, Maksim V. Koval, Evgeny V. Esin, Grigorii N. Markevich
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Fund for Support and Development of Protected Areas "Bear Land" 2019
• Subjects: feeding; feeding competition; grayling; parasite fauna; stable isotope ratio; trophic differentiation; whitefishes; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation; G; Okhotsk; Penzhina; Coregonus pidschian; pidschian; Thymallus arcticus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24189/ncr.2019.018; https://doaj.org/article/221b1844508d4850a5228a4a961517f7

Trophic relationships are presented for the juveniles of Coregonus sardinella, C. subautumnalis, C. pidschian, Prosopium cylindraceum, and Thymallus arcticus mertensii jointly inhabiting the Penzhina River lower reaches in summer. This community has no analogues in the North-Okhotsk region in terms...