HNILIČKA, Michal, Michal JANÁČ, Eva PALUPOVÁ, Maria Yu. TKACHENKO, Petra HORKÁ, Kateřina JANDOVÁ, Kateřina HOLUBOVÁ, Pavel JURAJDA and Markéta ONDRAČKOVÁ. Stable isotope analysis reveals fish juveniles as a temporal main resource consumed by invasive pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus). Hydrobiologia. Springer, 2024, vol. 2024, 7.8.2024, p. 1-18. ISSN 0018-8158. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-024-05658-4.
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Original name Stable isotope analysis reveals fish juveniles as a temporal main resource consumed by invasive pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus)
Authors HNILIČKA, Michal (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Michal JANÁČ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Eva PALUPOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Maria Yu. TKACHENKO (804 Ukraine), Petra HORKÁ (203 Czech Republic), Kateřina JANDOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Kateřina HOLUBOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Pavel JURAJDA (203 Czech Republic) and Markéta ONDRAČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic).
Edition Hydrobiologia, Springer, 2024, 0018-8158.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10613 Zoology
Country of publisher Netherlands
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 2.600 in 2022
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-024-05658-4
UT WoS 001286555800001
Keywords in English Non-native species; Feeding; Food chain; Trophic position; Piscivory
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Michal Hnilička, učo 459683. Changed: 16/9/2024 16:36.
Abstract
The pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758) is a small centrarchid fish species from North America that has invaded most European basins, with pronounced expected impacts. Analyses of pumpkinseed diet in its invasive range using gut content analysis (GCA) show macrozoobenthos as the most common dietary item, suggesting a competitive effect on native fish communities. Our study uses a combination of GCA and stable isotope analysis (SIA) to document pumpkinseed diet at two sites in its invaded range and relates pumpkinseed diet preferences with parasitic load. SIA revealed juvenile fish as a major prey item at one of the sites (63 and 50% of the diet of small and the large fish), while GCA showed pumpkinseed preying mostly on macroinvertebrates (chironomids, gastropods, Ephemeroptera, and Zygoptera larvae) at both sites. While infrequent infection by trophically transmitted parasitic nematodes could be related to low consumption of zooplankton, substantial infection by metacercariae of Posthodiplostomum centrarchi Hoffman1958 appears to reflect relatively high consumption rates of its intermediate host, physid snails. Using SIA allowed to demonstrate that pumpkinseed feeding in its non-native range can be based on piscivory, emphasising the need for combining multiple methods when studying the impact of non-native species on food webs.
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