trophic position
Trophic position and diet shift based on the body size of Coreoperca kawamebari (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
... In freshwater ecosystems, moving in and out of animal populations is strongly influenced by the interaction between biological communities (Thevenon et al., 2011; Craig et al., 2017). Biological interactions, such as ...
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The Diet Composition and Trophic Position of Introduced Prussian Carp Carassius gibelio (Bloch, 1782) and Native Fish Species in a Turkish River
... and trophic position of the invasive species Carassius gibelio to help understand the potential impact of this species on the native fish fauna in the Karamenderes River, northwest ...The trophic ...
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Bone stable isotopes indicate a high trophic position for New Zealand’s extinct South Island adzebill (Aptornis defossor) (Gruiformes: Aptornithidae)
... Abstract: The adzebills (Aptornithidae) were an ancient endemic lineage of large flightless Gruiformes that became extinct shortly after Polynesian settlement of New Zealand. The diet and ecology of these enigmatic birds ...
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Impacts of selective logging on insectivorous birds in Borneo: The importance of trophic position, body size and foraging height
... Moreover, changes in abundance following 26 logging were significantly and independently related to mean trophic position in primary 27 forest, body size and foraging height: large groun[r] ...
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Food web metrics of piscivorous predators in the Lake-Huron Erie Corridor using stable isotopes
... Trophic position estimates are important for understanding trophic structure and energy- flow within food ...webs. Trophic position of three predatory fish species from the lower Great ...
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Understanding trophic interactions in host parasite associations using stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen
... the trophic relations between parasites and their hosts have to be in- vestigated ...their trophic position in relation to their hosts is not ...
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Tropical forest fragments contribute to species richness in adjacent oil palm plantations
... single trophic position value was assigned per species, and where there was no trophic level information for a species, a value at the genus level was allocated based on a mean of the known ...
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Persistent Organic Pollutants in sediment and fish in the River Thames catchment (UK)
... Bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants POPs in fish species from Lake Koka, Ethiopia: The influence of lipid content and trophic position.. European Commission COMMISSION REGUL[r] ...
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Diet and trophic relationships of fishes from the nearshore of the Bay of Quinte and Kingston Basin, Lake Ontario
... Perch, Largemouth Bass, and Round Goby trophic position in the Bay of Quinte and Kingston. Basin, for 2010 data, across site, season, species and with length as a covariate.[r] ...
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The biology and ecology of benthic foraminifera inhabiting intertidal mudflats
... The novel use of natural abundance stable isotopes 313Corg and 3 1SNorg both demonstrates the trophic position of intertidal benthic foraminifera and confirms that they largely consume [r] ...
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Trophodynamics of Southern Ocean pteropods on the southern Kerguelen Plateau
... For C. pyramidata, we did not observe an increase in trophic position with body size that would signify a possible shifting from herbivory to omnivory. Positive correlations between C. pyramidata abundance ...
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Morphological and ecological variation among populations and subspecies of Burbot ( Lota lota [L, 1758]) from the Mackenzie River Delta, Canada
... the trophic niche inferred from stable isotope lev- els is also supported by our analysis of stomach con- tents, which consisted almost exclusively of fish ...high trophic position in aquatic food ...
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On predicting animal evolution
... evolutionary tree itself. But the cross-sectional figure of the neoLinnaean is orthogonal to the latter. So the number of descriptions has gone from one to two: the one ‘vertical’ and sending out ‘horizontal’ branches in ...
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Water Transparency As One As Of Trophic State Indices In Narta Lagoon
... Turbidity parameters are measured every two weeks over a sampling period from March to October 2012, at each of four selected sites differentiated by sea-lagoon water communication. Turbidity and transparency values of ...
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Global and local environmental changes as drivers of Buruli ulcer emergence
... example, trophic structure, abiotic parameters and disturbance level), (ii) human host conditions (for example, behavior, immunity and susceptibility) and (iii) MU strains (for example, genetic background and ...
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In vitro myotrophic effect of serum kappa chain immunoglobulins from a patient with kappa light chain myeloma and muscular hypertrophy
... a trophic effect on human muscle cells in culture, (b) this trophic effect increased the differentiation and did not influence the proliferation of human muscle cells, and (c) the fraction of the patient's ...
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Effects of zinc ex vivo on taurine uptake in goldfish retinal cells
... acid trophic effect, which could be related to the interaction between both in the membranes or to the influence of zinc on taurine trans- port ...The trophic effect of taurine may be affected by the ...
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Comparison of human modified and native forest habitats in the Hunua Ranges, Auckland : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
... However, stable isotope analyses do not necessarily provide the level of precision needed in terms of detailed and specific dietary analysis, and caution must be used in interpreting isotope values. Isotopic analysis is ...
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Coral reef mesopredators switch prey, shortening food chains, in response to habitat degradation
... Coral reef ecosystems are rapidly being degraded through multiple dis- turbances from human activities and the cumulative impacts of climate change (Ban, Graham, & Connolly, 2014; Graham, Jennings, MacNeil, Mouillot, ...
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Resilience or robustness : identifying topological vulnerabilities in rail networks
... clear trophic levels that match our qualitative knowledge of how passengers ...for trophic core size, we can see that a relatively larger value of passenger flow filtering is ...
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