caa a22 4500 397551479 CHVBK 20180308164751.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199608 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1006/jmsc.1996.0089 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1006/jmsc.1996.0089 Arrhenius Fredrik Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Diet composition and food selectivity of 0-group herring (Clupea harengus L.) and sprat (Sprattus sprattus (L.)) in the northern Baltic Sea [Elektronische Daten] [Fredrik Arrhenius] Diet composition and prey selectivity of the major Baltic Sea zooplanktivores, 0-group herring (Clupea harengus) and sprat (Sprattus sprattus), were studied in a coastal area. Diets were dominated by zooplankton, mainly cladocerans (Bosmina longispina maritima and Pleopsis polyphemoides) and copepods (Acartia spp. and Eurytemora affinis hirundoides/Temora longicornis). There were differences in order of the prey selected by the two different 0-group predators (fish hatched during the sampling year) when analysing each species separately. The general order of prey preference for herring was Acartia > Eurytemora>cladocerans>Pseudocalanus minutus>copepod nauplii and for sprat Eurytemora>cladocerans>Acartia>Pseudocalanus>copepod nauplii. As they grew 0-group clupeoids selected larger prey; the greatest preference was shown for intermediate sized prey (0.7-1.0 mm in cephalothorax length). © 1996 International council for the Exploration of the Sea Articles nationallicence herring nationallicence sprat nationallicence Baltic Sea nationallicence selectivity nationallicence diet nationallicence ICES Journal of Marine Science Oxford University Press 53/4(1996-08), 701-712 1054-3139 53:4<701 1996 53 icesjms https://doi.org/10.1006/jmsc.1996.0089 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1006/jmsc.1996.0089 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Arrhenius Fredrik Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- ICES Journal of Marine Science Oxford University Press 53/4(1996-08), 701-712 1054-3139 53:4<701 1996 53 icesjms Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford