Standardized diet compositions and trophic levels of sharks   总被引：13，自引：3，他引：13  

Cortes  E. 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》1999,56(5):707-717

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Developing an operational reference framework for fisheries management on the basis of a two-dimensional index of ecosystem impact     

Tudela  Sergi; Coll  Marta; Palomera  Isabel 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2005,62(3):585-591

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Impacts of fisheries on plankton community structure   总被引：3，自引：2，他引：3  

Reid  P. C.; Battle  E. J. V.; Batten  S. D.; Brander  K. M. 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2000,57(3):495-502

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Reconstructing the historical changes in Daphnia mean size and planktivorous fish abundance in lakes from the size of Daphnia ephippia in the sediment   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Erik Jeppesen  Jens Peder Jensen  Susanne Amsinck  Frank Landkildehus  Torben Lauridsen  Stuart F. Mitchell 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2002,27(1):133-143

The zooplankton community structure in lakes is highly influenced by size-selective predation by fish, with small zooplankton species dominating at high predation pressure. Remains of cladocerans are preserved in the sediment and may be used to trace historical changes in fish predation. We determined how contemporary data on planktivorous fish were related to the size of Daphnia ephippia (dorsal length) in the surface sediment (0-1 cm) of 52 mainly shallow lakes with contrasting densities of fish and nutrients (TP: 0.002-0.60 mg P l^-1). Density of fish expressed as catch per unit effort, in terms of numbers in multiple mesh-sized gill nets (CPUE_n), decreased significantly with increasing mean size of ephippia. The relationship was improved by adding TP as an independent variable, now explaining 90% of the variation in CPUE_n on the full data set covering lakes in Denmark, Greenland and New Zealand, and 78% if only data on Danish lakes were used. CPUE by weight of planktivorous fish and mean weight of Daphnia in the pelagial during summer were also related to ephippial size. By including contemporary data on established relationships between the sizes of egg-bearing female Daphnia and ephippia, we inferred changes in the CPUE_n, mean size of ephippia-bearing Daphnia and summer mean body weight of Daphnia from ephippial size in four lakes during the past 1-2 centuries. In a hypertrophic lake subject to periodic fish kills, Daphnia mean body weight was high and CPUE_n was low compared with those in two eutrophic lakes, while CPUE_n was low and Daphnia body weight was high in the least eutrophic, clearwater lake. Estimated CPUE_n and Daphnia mean weight in the surface sediment of these four lakes corresponded well with contemporary data. Only small changes in ephippial size with time were observed in the clearwater lake and in one of the lakes that had suffered early eutrophication, while major changes occurred in the two other lakes that had been subjected to a major increase in nutrient input or fish kills. We conclude that Daphnia ephippia preserved in the surface sediments of lakes may be a useful and efficient method to quantify the present-day abundance of planktivorous fish and Daphnia mean size. The method is particularly valid in surveys aimed to give a general picture of the fish stock and the ecological state in a set of lakes in a region rather than a precise estimate for a single lake. Though some evidence is provided, more work is needed to evaluate whether the equations are valid for hind-casting in down-core palaeoecological studies.  相似文献   

Biodiversity loss in benthic macroinfaunal communities and its consequence for organic mercury trophic availability to benthivorous predators in the lower Hudson River estuary, USA     

Daisuke Goto  William G. Wallace 《Marine pollution bulletin》2009,58(12):1909-1915

Organic mercury such as methylmercury is not only one of the most toxic substances found in coastal ecosystems but also has high trophic transfer efficiency. In this study, we examined implications of chronically altered benthic macroinfaunal assemblages for organic mercury trophic availability (based on organic mercury intracellular partitioning) to their predators in the Arthur Kill-AK (New York, USA). Despite low species diversity, both density and biomass of benthic macroinvertebrates in AK were significantly higher than those at the reference site. Disproportionately high biomass of benthic macroinvertebrates (mostly polychaetes) in the northern AK resulted in a more than twofold increase (‘ecological enrichment’) in the trophically available organic mercury pool. These results suggest that altered benthic macroinfaunal community structure in AK may play an important role in organic mercury trophic availability at the base of benthic food webs and potentially in mercury biogeochemical cycling in this severely urbanized coastal ecosystem.  相似文献   

Growing season variability of nitrate along a trophic gradient – contrasting patterns between lakes and streams     

Maria I. Khalili  Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》2009,71(1):25-33

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Topological redundancy and ‘small‐world’ patterns in a food web in a subtropical ecosystem of Brazil          下载免费PDF全文

Hugo Bornatowski  Rodrigo Barreto  Andrés F. Navia  Alberto Ferreira de Amorim 《Marine Ecology》2017,38(2)

According to graph theory, the frequency distribution of trophic interactions within a food web has deep structural implications, as it can highlight the presence of patterns associated with the web and indicate whether the properties of the web are independent of its size. A hypothesis is that ‘small‐world’ food webs are sensitive to the loss of species with the highest values. Therefore, the present work aimed to evaluate the degree to which a subtropical food web in Southern Brazil displays small‐world patterns and their resistance. As part of the assessment, we evaluated the topological redundancy values of species in the food web and then we simulated the exclusion of these species (such as sharks and sea birds), and also the exclusion of high centrality species (such as squids Loligo sp., portunid swimming crabs and the cutlassfish Trichiurus lepturus). The food web showed a ‘broad‐scale’ distribution of connections by node, and a small‐world pattern. As expected, a simplification of the network was observed after elimination of some species with high centrality. However, the food web was resistant to the loss of species with low topological redundancy, probably because these species occupy a high trophic level and do not participate in lots of routes within the food web. We highlight however, the importance of the application of multiple analyses to evaluate the importance of components in food webs, and fisheries management plans should consider both species of high centrality values and species with low topological redundancy.  相似文献   

Functional diversity of fish and invertebrates in coral and rocky reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific          下载免费PDF全文

Georgina Ramírez‐Ortiz  Luis E. Calderon‐Aguilera  Hector Reyes‐Bonilla  Arturo Ayala‐Bocos  Luis Hernández  Francisco Fernández Rivera‐Melo  Andres López‐Pérez  Arturo Dominici‐Arosamena 《Marine Ecology》2017,38(4)

To define the functional groups of fish and macroinvertebrates in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP), visual censuses were performed in 18 areas of four biogeographic provinces: Cortés, Mexican, Panamic and Oceanic Islands. A total of 257 fish and macroinvertebrate species were recorded, and from them, 27 morpho‐functional groups (MFGs) were constructed on the basis of trophic level, maximum size, taxonomy and morphology. Biomass, richness, diversity and evenness of MFGs were calculated for each province and compared statistically; a regression analysis between taxonomic and functional diversity was conducted to observe the relationship between these two indicators. There were significant differences in all ecological indices (p < .002), highlighting the high biomass and richness of MFGs in the Cortés and Oceanic Islands provinces (>400 g/m²), associated with the influence of cold currents in the northernmost region and less fishing pressure in protected areas. A decreasing pattern of MFG richness towards the tropics was observed, which demonstrates that in the ETP, the relationship between habitat heterogeneity and species diversity has been translated into functional complexity. The Mexican province was the most functionally diverse (biomass well distributed in the MFG; H′ = 0.46 ± 0.009). Related to this, it is predicted that biomass is biased towards certain functional groups (i.e., large carnivores), which shows that the H′ index of the MFG is not a good indicator of the conservation status of ETP reefs. Finally, regression analysis suggests that functional diversity increases at low species diversity but eventually reaches an asymptote (almost all possible functions are represented).  相似文献   

An assessment of “fishing down marine food webs” in coastal states during 1950–2010     

丁琪  陈新军  余为  陈勇 《海洋学报(英文版)》2017,36(2):43-50

渔获物平均营养级（Mean trophic level of fishery landings,MTL）是目前评估人类捕捞活动影响的研究中使用最广泛的生物多样性指标之一。根据联合国粮农组织FAO提供的渔获生产统计数据,结合Fishbase提供的相关鱼种营养级数据,本文评估了1950-2010年太平洋、大西洋和印度洋各沿海国海洋渔业开发状态。研究发现,在全球三大洋75个主要捕捞国中,43个国家MTL呈显著下降趋势,发生了Pauly于1998年提出的“捕捞降低海洋食物网”现象;但是,仅16个国家MTL的下降是由于高营养级种类的衰退,而27个国家属于“捕捞沿着海洋食物网”的下降机制。此外,20个国家MTL呈恢复上升趋势,但是,该恢复上升趋势通常伴随着传统低营养级种类产量的大幅下降;在上述20个国家中,11个国家的低营养级鱼类产量呈显著下降趋势。需谨慎分析“捕捞降低海洋食物网”现象,掌握MTL的潜在变化机制。  相似文献   

湖泊和水库营养分类的研究     

王东 《广东海洋大学学报》1992,(2)

根据我国实际情况,并参考国外对湖泊营养分类的标准,建立了湖泊和水库FTE营养分类方法。应用Fuzzy综合评判的理论和方法,对参加分类评判的各项指标参数通过映射的方法,使每一个指标参数转换成在区间[0,1]的特性指数(d_1),同时引入一个能反映每项指标参数在评判中重要程度的权值(a_1),求得一个能统一反映湖库营养程度的综合性评价指数的计算公式:e=∑a_1d_1。以何志辉教授对我国87个湖库营养分类结果为基准,计算并确定出贫、中、富三种营养类型互不相交的FTE指数范围,作为湖库FTE营养分类标准。对任一湖库,根据九项指标参数计算获得的FTE指数e,不仅能客观地反映其营养程度,同时又以它作为唯一的数值来确定该湖库的营养类型的归属。用FTE营养分类方法对我国87个湖库营养分类结果与何氏的分类结果吻合率达97.7％。  相似文献