期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OF FISHES
卷 95, 期 1, 页码 37-52出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-011-9919-7
关键词
Diet; Stable isotope analysis; Blue shark; Smooth hammerhead shark; Baja California Mexico
资金
- NSF [OCE 0345943]
- IGPP Mini-Grant
The foraging ecology of elasmobranchs (sharks, skates, and rays) is difficult to study because species have spatially and temporally diverse diets. Many diet and habitat preference studies for mammals, birds, and teleosts use stable isotope analysis, but interpretations are limited for elasmobranch studies because taxon-specific isotope discrimination factors from a controlled experiment are unavailable. Trophic discrimination factors for plasma, red blood cells, and muscle were determined from an experiment with leopard sharks (Triakis semifasciata) fed a constant diet of squid over 1000 days. The delta C-13 values for shark tissues at equilibrium with the squid diet did not vary significantly among individuals, but plasma and red blood cell delta N-15 values differed significantly among individuals and sampling day. Individual variation of muscle delta N-15 averages was observed and likely related to growth. Overall, carbon and nitrogen discrimination factors corresponded to previous studies featuring high-protein diets and carnivorous taxa. The muscle-to-diet discrimination factors from the controlled feeding study were applied to blue sharks (Prionace glauca) and smooth hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna zygaena) caught offshore from Baja California, Mexico. This case study demonstrates the potential of stable isotope analysis to illuminate differences in foraging patterns between elasmobranch species.
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