期刊
ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE
卷 77, 期 2, 页码 624-632出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsz224
关键词
Baltic Sea; bioenergetics modelling; environmental change; Gadus morhua; growth; predation; stomach data
资金
- European Union [2012-60]
- Innovation Fund Denmark [2012-60]
- Swedish Research Council Formas [2012-60]
- Latvian Academy of Science [2012-60]
- EU [613571]
- Formas [2018-00775]
- Formas [2018-00775] Funding Source: Formas
- Villum Fonden [00007178] Funding Source: researchfish
Five decades of stomach content data allowed insight into the development of consumption, diet composition, and resulting somatic growth of Gadus morhua (Atlantic cod) in the eastern Baltic Sea. We show a recent reversal in feeding level over body length. Present feeding levels of small cod indicate severe growth limitation and increased starvation-related mortality. For young cod, the low growth rate and the high mortality rate are manifested through a reduction in size-at-age. The low feeding levels are likely the result of a decrease in benthic prey abundance due to increased hypoxic areas, while decreasing abundances of pelagic species in the area of cod distribution have prevented a compensatory shift in diet. Our study emphasizes that environmental forcing and the decline in pelagic prey caused changes in consumption and growth rates of small cod. The food reduction is amplified by stunted growth leading to high densities of cod of smaller size competing for the scarce resources. The average growth rate is negative, and only individuals with feeding levels well above average will survive, though growing slowly. These results suggest that the relation between consumption rate, somatic growth and predatorprey population densities is strongly environmentally mediated.
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