Trophic relationships in fish assemblages of Neotropical floodplain lakes: selectivity and feeding overlap mediated by food availability

  • Dias R
  • Ortega J
  • Gomes L
  • et al.
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ABSTRACT. The relationships between the degree of dietary overlap and food availability, and implications for food selectivity of fish species were evaluated at floodplain lakes on the upper Paraná River floodplain, Brazil. The hypothesis tested were: i) species become less selective in lakes with high availability of food resources; and ii) species (interspecific) or individual (intraspecific) present higher food overlap in conditions of high availability of food resources. In general, with the results was observed that species become less selective when the environment provided higher availability of food resources. Interspecific overlap did not show a pattern when evaluating availability of food resources in the lakes. However, intraspecific overlap tended to be more accentuated in conditions of high availability of resource food.RESUMO. As relações entre o grau de sobreposição alimentar e disponibilidade de alimentos, e as implicações para a seletividade alimentar de espécies de peixes foram avaliadas em lagoas da planície de inundação do Alto rio Paraná, Brasil. As hipóteses testadas foram: i) as espécies tornam-se menos seletivas em lagoas com alta disponibilidade de recursos alimentares; e ii) espécies (interespecífica) ou indivíduos (intraspecífica) apresentam maior sobreposição alimentar em condições de alta disponibilidade de recursos alimentares. Em geral, com os resultados observou-se que as espécies se tornam menos seletivas quando o ambiente proporciona maior disponibilidade de recursos alimentares. A sobreposição interespecífica não demostrou padrão quando avaliado a disponibilidade de recursos alimentares nas lagoas. No entanto, a sobreposição intraespecífica foi mais acentuada nas condições de elevada disponibilidade de recursos alimentares.

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Dias, R. M., Ortega, J. C. G., Gomes, L. C., & Agostinho, A. A. (2017). Trophic relationships in fish assemblages of Neotropical floodplain lakes: selectivity and feeding overlap mediated by food availability. Iheringia. Série Zoologia, 107(0). https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-4766e2017035

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