Fish reduce habitat coupling by a waterbird: evidence from combined stable isotope and conventional dietary approaches

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[J. Kloskowski, A. Trembaczowski]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Aquatic Ecology, 49/1(2015-03-01), 21-31
Format:
Artikel (online)
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520 3 |a Aquatic consumers can function as habitat couplers by using allochthonous subsidies of prey that migrate across ecosystem boundaries. We examined the relative use of allochthonous (invertebrates—terrestrial or living on littoral vegetation; immigrating amphibians) versus autochthonous (aquatic invertebrates, fish) resources by the red-necked grebe Podiceps grisegena, a generalist predator, on fishless ponds versus ponds stocked with common carp Cyprinus carpio. We combined conventional methods of diet estimation with stable carbon and nitrogen analyses of egg yolks and putative prey of grebes. Prelaying grebes were observed to take mainly adult amphibians on fishless ponds and fish on stocked ponds. Alimentary tract analyses gave more weight to invertebrate prey, especially leaf beetles Donaciinae, apparently picked off water or emergent plants. Bayesian isotopic mixing models did not reveal predominance of a single food source but indicated that in the presence of fish grebes received relatively less energy for egg formation from amphibians and leaf beetles. Overall, our results show that grebes relied more on allochthonous resources (range of means 50-97% of the biomass contribution estimated by different assessment methods) in the absence than in the presence of fish (8-23%). We suggest that habitat coupling by waterbirds may be controlled by fish, which can suppress external prey subsidies, apart from being an attractive food for piscivorous birds. 
540 |a The Author(s), 2015 
690 7 |a Allochthonous inputs  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Food webs  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Habitat coupling  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Podiceps grisegena  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Ponds  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Resource subsidies  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Kloskowski  |D J.  |u Department of Nature Conservation, Institute of Biology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033, Lublin, Poland  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Trembaczowski  |D A.  |u Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 1, 20-031, Lublin, Poland  |4 aut 
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950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Trembaczowski  |D A.  |u Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 1, 20-031, Lublin, Poland  |4 aut 
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