Diets of gadoid fish in Arctic waters of Svalbard fjords during the polar night
As the climate warms, boreal fish species are expected to expand into the Arctic domain. Though water temperature is an important factor driving expansion of aquatic species, other variables may play a critical role in restricting those movements. Continuous darkness during the Arctic polar night ha...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/29950 2023-09-05T13:15:45+02:00 Diets of gadoid fish in Arctic waters of Svalbard fjords during the polar night Larsen, Lars-Henrik Cusa, Marine Lure Joana Eglund-Newby, Sam Berge, Jørgen Renaud, Paul Eric Varpe, Øystein Geoffroy, Maxime Falk-Petersen, Stig 2023-06-23 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29950 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-023-03167-z eng eng Springer Nature Polar Biology Larsen, Cusa, Eglund-Newby, Berge, Renaud, Varpe, Geoffroy, Falk-Petersen. Diets of gadoid fish in Arctic waters of Svalbard fjords during the polar night. Polar Biology. 2023 FRIDAID 2161432 doi:10.1007/s00300-023-03167-z 0722-4060 1432-2056 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29950 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2023 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-023-03167-z 2023-08-16T23:06:47Z As the climate warms, boreal fish species are expected to expand into the Arctic domain. Though water temperature is an important factor driving expansion of aquatic species, other variables may play a critical role in restricting those movements. Continuous darkness during the Arctic polar night has been suggested to impair foraging in visually searching boreal fish and may thus limit their northward expansion. We discuss feeding and diet composition of co-existing polar cod (Boreogadus saida), Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) during the polar night. The data presented cover January sampling during five consecutive years (2012–2016) in Svalbard fjords (78–80°N). Across species, more than 70% of individuals were feeding. Few stomachs were well filled, suggesting an overall moderate foraging activity or success. The endemic polar cod had the highest frequency of empty stomachs (40%), while Atlantic cod (25% empty) and haddock (21% empty) had fed most extensively. Diet composition indicated opportunistic feeding, with extensive diet overlap of the most abundant prey species (krill, Thysanoessa spp.) during years of highly abundant krill (2014–2015) but reverting to more distinct diets in a year (2016) with lower krill abundance. For all three species, presence of prey items in advanced degrees of digestion indicated feeding activity prior to each annual trawl sampling. The stomach fullness and diet overlap suggest that coexisting and similar sized gadoids feed on the same available prey resources during polar night. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic atlantic cod Boreogadus saida Gadus morhua Polar Biology polar cod polar night Svalbard University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Svalbard Polar Biology 46 8 783 799 |
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As the climate warms, boreal fish species are expected to expand into the Arctic domain. Though water temperature is an important factor driving expansion of aquatic species, other variables may play a critical role in restricting those movements. Continuous darkness during the Arctic polar night has been suggested to impair foraging in visually searching boreal fish and may thus limit their northward expansion. We discuss feeding and diet composition of co-existing polar cod (Boreogadus saida), Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) during the polar night. The data presented cover January sampling during five consecutive years (2012–2016) in Svalbard fjords (78–80°N). Across species, more than 70% of individuals were feeding. Few stomachs were well filled, suggesting an overall moderate foraging activity or success. The endemic polar cod had the highest frequency of empty stomachs (40%), while Atlantic cod (25% empty) and haddock (21% empty) had fed most extensively. Diet composition indicated opportunistic feeding, with extensive diet overlap of the most abundant prey species (krill, Thysanoessa spp.) during years of highly abundant krill (2014–2015) but reverting to more distinct diets in a year (2016) with lower krill abundance. For all three species, presence of prey items in advanced degrees of digestion indicated feeding activity prior to each annual trawl sampling. The stomach fullness and diet overlap suggest that coexisting and similar sized gadoids feed on the same available prey resources during polar night. |
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Larsen, Lars-Henrik Cusa, Marine Lure Joana Eglund-Newby, Sam Berge, Jørgen Renaud, Paul Eric Varpe, Øystein Geoffroy, Maxime Falk-Petersen, Stig Diets of gadoid fish in Arctic waters of Svalbard fjords during the polar night |
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Larsen, Lars-Henrik Cusa, Marine Lure Joana Eglund-Newby, Sam Berge, Jørgen Renaud, Paul Eric Varpe, Øystein Geoffroy, Maxime Falk-Petersen, Stig |
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Diets of gadoid fish in Arctic waters of Svalbard fjords during the polar night |
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Diets of gadoid fish in Arctic waters of Svalbard fjords during the polar night |
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Diets of gadoid fish in Arctic waters of Svalbard fjords during the polar night |
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Diets of gadoid fish in Arctic waters of Svalbard fjords during the polar night |
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Diets of gadoid fish in Arctic waters of Svalbard fjords during the polar night |
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Polar Biology Larsen, Cusa, Eglund-Newby, Berge, Renaud, Varpe, Geoffroy, Falk-Petersen. Diets of gadoid fish in Arctic waters of Svalbard fjords during the polar night. Polar Biology. 2023 FRIDAID 2161432 doi:10.1007/s00300-023-03167-z 0722-4060 1432-2056 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29950 |
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