کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
6304280 1618426 2013 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Interaction strength varies in relation to tidal gradient and spatial heterogeneity in an intertidal Southwest Atlantic estuarine food web
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
استحکام تعامل در رابطه با شیب جزر و مد و ناهمگنی فضایی در یک وب سایت غذای دریایی دریای اطلس جنوب غربی آتلانتیک متفاوت است
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم آبزیان
چکیده انگلیسی


- Weak interaction prevails; however, in warm season, DI of birds was more variable.
- During cold season, fishes exhibit broadly variation in their impact on prey.
- Interaction strength of both predators is determinate by environmental context.

Interaction strength is a key component in food-web dynamics being highly variable over time and space, depending on biotic and abiotic conditions. Intertidal soft bottom ecosystems are essential nursery and feeding sites for migratory shorebirds and marine fishes, which in turn affect infaunal assemblage and the food web dynamic. In these systems, organisms that modify the resource availability to other species (i.e. burrowing crabs) are expected to have significant consequences on infauna distribution and the interactions among organisms. Here we simultaneously evaluated the interaction strength of birds and fishes on infaunal prey in areas with and without crab bioturbation. Field experiments showed weak predator-prey interactions of both predators; however, birds exerted high impact on meiofauna inside bioturbated areas during the warm season. Moreover, the effect of fishes differed depending on bioturbation and another factor such as climatic events (e.g. El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)). Thus, our results suggest that interaction strength of birds and fishes on prey are context dependent, varying between different areas, tidal time exposition, ENSO episode and seasons. Also, our results exemplify how the outcome of predator-prey interaction strength can depend on other factors such as the activity of other species that modify the environment.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology - Volume 449, November 2013, Pages 154-164
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