Trophic structure of a floodplain fish assemblage in the upper Amazon basin, Bolivia.
Amazonian fish assemblages are typically high in species diversity and trophic complexity. Stable isotopes are valuable tools to describe the trophic structure of such assemblages, providing useful information for conservation and ecological management. This study aimed at estimating the relative co...
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Amazonian fish assemblages are typically high in species diversity and trophic complexity. Stable isotopes are valuable tools to describe the trophic structure of such assemblages, providing useful information for conservation and ecological management. This study aimed at estimating the relative contribution of the different basal carbon sources to the diet of primary consumer fishes (herbivores and detritivores), and determining the trophic position (TP) of the dominant fishes from each trophic guild (herbivores, detritivores, invertivores and piscivores). For this purpose we analyzed stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) in potential food sources, and muscle tissue of fishes in five oxbow lakes located in the floodplain of River Ichilo, Bolivia. Terrestrial plants and C3 aquatic macrophytes were the major carbon source contributing to the diet of herbivorous fishes, whereas particulate organic matter (POM) contributed more to the diet of detritivore fishes. In general, C4 aquatic macrophytes contributed little to the diet of herbivores and detritivores. However, we found a relatively high contribution of C4 macrophytes (28 %) to the diet of the herbivores Mylossoma duriventre and Schizodon fasciatus. We found a good agreement between our estimated TP values and the trophic group assigned based on diet composition from literature. The herbivore M. duriventre was at the bottom of the food web, being the baseline organism (TP = 2). The remaining primary consumers (herbivores and algivore/detritivores) exhibited relatively high TP values (2.3 - 2.9), probably due to their opportunistic feeding behavior. Omnivore/invertivore species studied displayed TP values near the 3.0 value expected for secondary consumers. Piscivore fishes were at the top TP, with TP values varying from 3.3 (Serrasalmus spilopleura and Serrasalmus rhombeus) to 3.8 (Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum). The fact that detritivore fishes, the most abundant food source for piscivores, occupy relatively high TPs determines that food ... |
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Trophic structure of a floodplain fish assemblage in the upper Amazon basin, Bolivia. |
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Environmental Research, 151, 286-296. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2016.07.035 Benedito-Cecilio, E., Araujo-Lima, C. A. R. M., Forsberg, B. R., Bittencourt, M. M., & Martinelli, L. C. (2000). Carbon sources of Amazonian fisheries. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 7, 305-315. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2400.2000.007004305.x Busst G. M. A., & Britton J. R. (2017). Comparative trophic impacts of two globally invasive cyprinid fishes reveal species-specific invasion consequences for a threatened native fish. Freshwater Biology, 62:1587-1595. doi:10.1111/fwb.12970 Carscallen, W. M. A., Vandenberg, K., Lawson, J. M., Martinez, N. D., & Romanuk, T. N. (2012). Estimating trophic position in marine and estuarine food webs. Ecosphere, 3, 1-20. doi:10.1890/ES11-00224.1 Carvajal, F., & Maldonado M. (2005). Influencia de la conexión río-laguna sobre la ictiocenosis lacustre en la várzea del río Ichilo (Cochabamba - Bolivia). Revista Boliviana de Ecología y Conservación Ambiental, 17, 33-48. Carvalho, D. R., Castro, D., Callisto, M., Moreira, M. Z., & Pompeu, P. S. (2015), Isotopic variation in five species of stream fishes under the influence of different land uses. Journal of Fish Biology, 87, 559-578. doi:10.1111/jfb.12734 Coat, S., Monti, D., Bouchon, C., & Lepoint, G. (2009). Trophic relationships in a tropical stream food web assessed by stable isotope analysis. Freshwater Biology, 54, 1028-1041. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02149.x Cucherousset, J., Bouletreau, S., Martino, A., Roussel, J. M., & Santoul, F. (2012). Using stable isotope analyses to determine the ecological effects of non-native fishes. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 19, 111-119. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2400.2011.00824.x De Carvalho, D. R., de Castro, D. M. P., Callisto, M., Moreira, M. Z., Pompeu, P. S. (2017). The trophic structure of fish communities from streams in the Brazilian Cerrado under different land uses: an approach using stable isotopes. 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ftucostaricaojs:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/30693 2023-05-15T14:28:31+02:00 Trophic structure of a floodplain fish assemblage in the upper Amazon basin, Bolivia. Estructura trófica de un ensamblaje de peces en la cuenca alto-Amazónica, Bolivia Rejas Alurralde, Danny César 2018-07-04 application/pdf text/html https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/30693 https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v66i3.30693 eng eng Universidad de Costa Rica https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/30693/33875 https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/30693/33876 Abrantes, K. G., Barnett, A., & Bouillon, S. (2014). Stable isotope-based community metrics as a tool to identify patterns in food web structure in east African estuaries. Functional Ecology, 28, 270-282. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12155 Araujo-Lima, C. A. R. M., Forsberg, B. R., Victoria, R. L., & Martinelli, L. (1986). Energy sources for detritivorous fishes in the Amazon. Science, 234, 1256-1258. Ayala, G., Zambrana, K., & Maldonado, M. (2000). Estructura trófica de la ictiocenosis en lagunas de la llanura inundable de los ríos Ichilo y Chapare. Revista Boliviana de Ecología y Conservación Ambiental, 7, 25-35. Azevedo-Silva, C. E., Almeida, R., Carvalho, D. P., Ometto, J. P. H. B., de Camargo, P. B., Dorneles, P. R., … Torres, J. P. M. (2016). Mercury biomagnification and the trophic structure of the ichthyofauna from a remote lake in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research, 151, 286-296. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2016.07.035 Benedito-Cecilio, E., Araujo-Lima, C. A. R. M., Forsberg, B. R., Bittencourt, M. M., & Martinelli, L. C. (2000). Carbon sources of Amazonian fisheries. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 7, 305-315. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2400.2000.007004305.x Busst G. M. A., & Britton J. R. (2017). Comparative trophic impacts of two globally invasive cyprinid fishes reveal species-specific invasion consequences for a threatened native fish. Freshwater Biology, 62:1587-1595. doi:10.1111/fwb.12970 Carscallen, W. M. A., Vandenberg, K., Lawson, J. M., Martinez, N. D., & Romanuk, T. N. (2012). Estimating trophic position in marine and estuarine food webs. Ecosphere, 3, 1-20. doi:10.1890/ES11-00224.1 Carvajal, F., & Maldonado M. (2005). Influencia de la conexión río-laguna sobre la ictiocenosis lacustre en la várzea del río Ichilo (Cochabamba - Bolivia). Revista Boliviana de Ecología y Conservación Ambiental, 17, 33-48. Carvalho, D. R., Castro, D., Callisto, M., Moreira, M. Z., & Pompeu, P. S. (2015), Isotopic variation in five species of stream fishes under the influence of different land uses. Journal of Fish Biology, 87, 559-578. doi:10.1111/jfb.12734 Coat, S., Monti, D., Bouchon, C., & Lepoint, G. (2009). Trophic relationships in a tropical stream food web assessed by stable isotope analysis. Freshwater Biology, 54, 1028-1041. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02149.x Cucherousset, J., Bouletreau, S., Martino, A., Roussel, J. M., & Santoul, F. (2012). Using stable isotope analyses to determine the ecological effects of non-native fishes. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 19, 111-119. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2400.2011.00824.x De Carvalho, D. R., de Castro, D. M. P., Callisto, M., Moreira, M. Z., Pompeu, P. S. (2017). The trophic structure of fish communities from streams in the Brazilian Cerrado under different land uses: an approach using stable isotopes. Hydrobiologia, 795, 199-217. doi:10.1007/s10750-017-3130-6 Deines, P., Grey, J., Richnow, H. H., & Eller, G. (2007). Linking larval chironomids to methane: Seasonal variation of the microbial methane cycle and chironomid δ13C. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 46, 273-282. doi:10.3354/ame046273 De Mérona, B., & Rankin-de-Mérona, J. (2004). Food resource partitioning in a fish community of central Amazon floodplain. Neotropical Ichthyology, 2(2), 75-84. Dos Santos, G.M. (1990). Pesca e Ecologia dos peixes de Rondônia. Manaus, AM, Brasil: Fundação Universidade do Amazonas. Forsberg, B. R., Martinelli, L. A., Victoria, R. L., & Bonassi, J. A. (1993). Autotrophic carbon sources for fish of the Central Amazon. Ecology, 74(3), 643-652. Freitas, C. E. C., Siqueira-Souza, F. K., Guimarães, A. R., Santos, F. A., & Santos, I. L. A. (2010). Interconnectedness during high water maintains similarity in fish assemblages of island floodplain lakes in the Amazonian Basin. Zoologia, 27(6), 931-938. doi:10.1590/S1984-46702010000600014 Fry, B. (2006). Stable isotope ecology. New York: Springer. Goulding, E. G., Carvalho, M., & Ferreira, L. (1988). Río Negro: Rich life in poor water. The Hague: SPB Academic Publishing. Gu, B., Schelske, C. L., & Hoyer, M. V. (1997). Intrapopulation feeding diversity in Blue Tilapia: Evidence from stable-isotope analyses. Ecology, 78(7), 2263-2266. Hamilton, S. K., Lewis Jr., W. M., & Sippel, S. J. (1992). Energy-sources for aquatic animals in the Orinoco River floodplain: evidence from stable isotopes. Oecologia, 89, 324-330. Herwig, B. R., Soluk, D. A., Dettmers, J. M., & Wahl, D. H. (2004). Trophic structure and energy flow in backwater lakes of two large floodplain rivers assessed using stable isotopes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 61(1), 12-22. doi:10.1139/f03-139 Jackson, A. T., Adite, A., Roach, K. A., & Winemiller, K. O. (2013). Primary production, food web structure, and fish yields in constructed and natural wetlands in the floodplain of an African river. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 70, 543-553. doi:10.1139/cjfas-2012-0403 Jepsen, D. B., & Winemiller, K. O. (2002). Structure of tropical river food webs revealed by stable isotope ratios. Oikos, 96(1), 46-55. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.960105.x Jones, R. I., & Grey, J. (2004). Stable isotope analysis of chironomid larvae from some Finnish forest lakes indicates dietary contribution from biogenic methane. Boreal Environment Research, 9(1), 17-23. Junk, W. J., Bayley, P. B., & Sparks, R. E. (1989). The flood pulse concept in river-floodplain systems. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 106, 110-127. Junk, W. J., & Piedade, M. T. F. (1993). Herbaceous plants of the Amazon floodplain near Manaus: Species diversity and adaptations to the flood pulse. Amazoniana, 12(3/4), 467-484. Layman, C. A., Winemiller, K. O., Arrington, D. A., & Jepsen, D. B. (2005). Body size and trophic position in a diverse tropical food web. Ecology, 86(9), 2530-2535. doi:10.1890/04-1098 Leite, R. G., Araújo-Lima, C. A. R. M., Victoria, R. L., & Martinelli, L. A. (2002). Stable isotope analysis of energy sources for larvae of eight fish species from the Amazon floodplain. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 11, 56-63. Lewis Jr., W. L., Hamilton, S. K., Rodriguez, M. 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Revista Biología Tropical; v. 66 n. 3 (2018): Volumen 66 – Número regular 3 – Setiembre 2018; 1258-1271 Revista de Biología Tropical; Vol 66 No 3 (2018): Volume 66 – Regular number 3 – September 2018; 1258-1271 Revista de Biología Tropical; Vol. 66 Núm. 3 (2018): Volumen 66 – Número regular 3 – Setiembre 2018; 1258-1271 2215-2075 0034-7744 10.15517/rbt.v66i3 Stable isotopes trophic position trophic guilds carbon sources food chain isótopos estables posición trófica gremios tróficos fuentes de carbono cadena trófica info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2018 ftucostaricaojs https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v66i3.30693 https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v66i3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2016.07.035 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3130-6 https://doi.org/10.2307/3071875 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066240 2022-06-15T23:45:35Z Amazonian fish assemblages are typically high in species diversity and trophic complexity. Stable isotopes are valuable tools to describe the trophic structure of such assemblages, providing useful information for conservation and ecological management. This study aimed at estimating the relative contribution of the different basal carbon sources to the diet of primary consumer fishes (herbivores and detritivores), and determining the trophic position (TP) of the dominant fishes from each trophic guild (herbivores, detritivores, invertivores and piscivores). For this purpose we analyzed stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) in potential food sources, and muscle tissue of fishes in five oxbow lakes located in the floodplain of River Ichilo, Bolivia. Terrestrial plants and C3 aquatic macrophytes were the major carbon source contributing to the diet of herbivorous fishes, whereas particulate organic matter (POM) contributed more to the diet of detritivore fishes. In general, C4 aquatic macrophytes contributed little to the diet of herbivores and detritivores. However, we found a relatively high contribution of C4 macrophytes (28 %) to the diet of the herbivores Mylossoma duriventre and Schizodon fasciatus. We found a good agreement between our estimated TP values and the trophic group assigned based on diet composition from literature. The herbivore M. duriventre was at the bottom of the food web, being the baseline organism (TP = 2). The remaining primary consumers (herbivores and algivore/detritivores) exhibited relatively high TP values (2.3 - 2.9), probably due to their opportunistic feeding behavior. Omnivore/invertivore species studied displayed TP values near the 3.0 value expected for secondary consumers. Piscivore fishes were at the top TP, with TP values varying from 3.3 (Serrasalmus spilopleura and Serrasalmus rhombeus) to 3.8 (Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum). The fact that detritivore fishes, the most abundant food source for piscivores, occupy relatively high TPs determines that food ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Boreal Environment Research Portal de revistas académicas de la Universidad de Costa Rica Cadena ENVELOPE(-67.600,-67.600,-67.450,-67.450) Revista de Biología Tropical 66 3 1258 |