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Appendix C. Examples of fish species that undergo significant dietary or habitat shifts during their development.
Table C1. Examples of fish species that undergo significant dietary or habitat shifts during their development.
Species |
Scientific name |
Reference |
Pelagic to littoral/benthic shift during ontogeny |
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Australian smelt |
Retropinna semoni |
King 2005 |
bony bream |
Nematalosa erebi |
this study |
common carp |
Cyprinus carpio |
King 2005, Britton et al. 2007 |
Eurasian perch |
Perca fluviatilis |
Vrede et al. 2011 |
golden perch |
Macquaria ambigua |
this study |
murray cod |
Maccullochella peelii peelii |
King 2005 |
northern pike |
Esox lucius |
Bry et al. 1995 |
smallmouth bass |
Micropterus dolomieu |
Vander Zanden et al. 1998 |
yellow perch |
Perca fulvescens |
Svanback and Persson 2004 |
Littoral/benthic to pelagic shift during ontogeny |
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bluegill sunfish |
Lepomis macrochirus |
Mittelbach 1981 |
Literature cited
Britton, J. R., R. R. Boar, J. Grey, J. Foster, J. Lugonzo, and D. M. Harper. 2007. From introduction to fishery dominance: the initial impacts of the invasive carp Cyptinus carpio in Lake Naivasha, Kenya, 1999 to 2006. Journal of Fish Biology 71:239–257.
Bry, C., F. Bonamy, J. Manelphe, and B. Duranthon. 1995. Early life characteristics of pike, Esox lucius, in rearing ponds: temporal survival pattern and ontogenetic diet shifts. Journal of Fish Biology 46:99–113.
King, A. J. 2005. Ontogenetic dietary shifts of fishes in an Australian floodplain river. Marine and Freshwater Research 56:215–225.
Mittelbach, G. G. 1981. Foraging efficiency and body size: A study of optimal diet and habitat use by bluegills. Ecology 62:1370–1386.
Svanback, R., and L. Persson. 2004. Individual diet specialization, niche width and population dynamics: implications for trophic polymorphisms. Journal of Animal Ecology 73:973–982.
Vander Zanden, M. J., M. Hulshof, M. S. Ridgway, and J. B. Rasmussen. 1998. Application of stable isotope techniques to trophic studies of age-0 smallmouth bass. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 127:729–739.
Vrede, T., S. Drakare, P. Eklov, A. Hein, A. Liess, J. Olsson, J. Persson, M. Quevedo, H. R. Stabo, and R. Svanback. 2011. Ecological stoichiometry of Eurasian perch - intraspecific variation due to size, habitat and diet. Oikos 120:886–896.