Fitness consequences of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology in European eels
International audience Individual specialisation can lead to the exploitation of different trophic and habitat resources and the production of morphological variability within a population. Although the ecological causes of this phenomenon are relatively well known, its consequences on individual fi...
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ftmuseumnhn:oai:HAL:hal-04612776v1 2024-09-09T19:00:41+00:00 Fitness consequences of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology in European eels Cucherousset, Julien Acou, Anthony Blanchet, Simon Britton, J. Robert Beaumont, William Gozlan, Rodolphe Centre for Conservation Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) Station d’Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis (SEEM) Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Bournemouth University Poole (BU) Salmon and Trout Research Centre The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust 2011-04-01 https://hal.science/hal-04612776 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-011-1974-4 en eng HAL CCSD Springer Verlag info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s00442-011-1974-4 hal-04612776 https://hal.science/hal-04612776 doi:10.1007/s00442-011-1974-4 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ ISSN: 0029-8549 EISSN: 1432-1939 Oecologia https://hal.science/hal-04612776 Oecologia, 2011, 167 (1), pp.75-84. ⟨10.1007/s00442-011-1974-4⟩ Niche segregation disruptive selection resource polymorphism stable isotope analyses interindividual variability [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2011 ftmuseumnhn https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-011-1974-4 2024-06-17T23:52:58Z International audience Individual specialisation can lead to the exploitation of different trophic and habitat resources and the production of morphological variability within a population. Although the ecological causes of this phenomenon are relatively well known, its consequences on individual fitness are less recognised. We have investigated the extent of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology and its fitness consequences through a combination of tagging–recapture, stable isotope analyses and telemetry. The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) was the model species as it displays significant variability in head shape. Independent to their body length, individuals with broader heads displayed a significantly higher trophic position (d15N) than individuals with narrower heads. This corresponded with a significantly higher proportion of prey fish in their diet compared with invertebrates and was associated with the use of a habitat niche located further from the river bank. The European eel therefore provides a rare empirical example of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology in a natural population occurring at a very small spatial scale. Individuals with intermediate head morphology displayed lower body condition (a proxy of fitness) than individuals with extreme head morphology (i.e. narrower and broader headed individuals), demonstrating the existence of disruptive selection associated with individual specialisation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Anguilla anguilla European eel Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHM): HAL Oecologia 167 1 75 84 |
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Niche segregation disruptive selection resource polymorphism stable isotope analyses interindividual variability [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere Cucherousset, Julien Acou, Anthony Blanchet, Simon Britton, J. Robert Beaumont, William Gozlan, Rodolphe Fitness consequences of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology in European eels |
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International audience Individual specialisation can lead to the exploitation of different trophic and habitat resources and the production of morphological variability within a population. Although the ecological causes of this phenomenon are relatively well known, its consequences on individual fitness are less recognised. We have investigated the extent of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology and its fitness consequences through a combination of tagging–recapture, stable isotope analyses and telemetry. The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) was the model species as it displays significant variability in head shape. Independent to their body length, individuals with broader heads displayed a significantly higher trophic position (d15N) than individuals with narrower heads. This corresponded with a significantly higher proportion of prey fish in their diet compared with invertebrates and was associated with the use of a habitat niche located further from the river bank. The European eel therefore provides a rare empirical example of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology in a natural population occurring at a very small spatial scale. Individuals with intermediate head morphology displayed lower body condition (a proxy of fitness) than individuals with extreme head morphology (i.e. narrower and broader headed individuals), demonstrating the existence of disruptive selection associated with individual specialisation. |
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Centre for Conservation Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) Station d’Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis (SEEM) Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Bournemouth University Poole (BU) Salmon and Trout Research Centre The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust |
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Fitness consequences of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology in European eels |
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Fitness consequences of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology in European eels |
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Fitness consequences of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology in European eels |
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Fitness consequences of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology in European eels |
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Fitness consequences of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology in European eels |
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fitness consequences of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology in european eels |
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ISSN: 0029-8549 EISSN: 1432-1939 Oecologia https://hal.science/hal-04612776 Oecologia, 2011, 167 (1), pp.75-84. ⟨10.1007/s00442-011-1974-4⟩ |
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