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Trophic ecology of adult male Odonata. I. Dietary niche metrics by foraging guild, species, body size, and location

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ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY
卷 43, 期 1, 页码 1-14

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/een.12458

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Fatty acid; fliers; perchers; riparian; river; South Africa; stable isotope

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  1. Water Research Commission of South Africa
  2. National Research Foundation of South Africa
  3. Rhodes University

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1. Information on the dietary niches of adult odonates is sparse, as they are highly mobile and evasive animals, which makes them difficult to observe in their natural habitat. Moreover, there is a lack of knowledge on how varying behavioural traits of odonates relate to phenomena like niche partitioning. 2. This study investigated niche partitioning amongst odonate species, foraging guilds and size classes in a riverine system in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. A combination of stable isotope and fatty acid-based niches was used to infer odonate feeding. 3. Both fatty acid and stable isotope-based niches showed that there was niche separation amongst odonates that forage in flight (fliers) and those that forage from a perch (perchers), amongst odonates of different size classes (damselflies, medium- and large-sized dragonflies), and amongst species, although varying levels of niche overlap were observed in each case. 4. Niche sizes of odonates varied between an upstream and a downstream site. Generally greater niche overlap was recorded at the narrow upstream site (associated with low insect emergence rates) than the wider downstream site (associated with high insect emergence rates), indicating that a greater degree of resource sharing occurred at the upstream site where aquatic food was less abundant. 5. The findings of this study suggest that dietary niches of odonates can be influenced by foraging guild, body size, and/or environmental conditions, and additional study in a variety of regions is recommended to determine the greater applicability of these findings.

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