Study on trophic level of main fishes in the Jiulong River Estuary based on stable nitrogen isotope

Liao Jianji; Zheng Xinqing; Du Jianguo; Chen Bin

doi:10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2015.02.010

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Liao Jianji, Zheng Xinqing, Du Jianguo, Chen Bin. Study on trophic level of main fishes in the Jiulong River Estuary based on stable nitrogen isotope[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2015, 37(2): 93-103. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2015.02.010

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Liao Jianji, Zheng Xinqing, Du Jianguo, Chen Bin. Study on trophic level of main fishes in the Jiulong River Estuary based on stable nitrogen isotope[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2015, 37(2): 93-103. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2015.02.010

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Study on trophic level of main fishes in the Jiulong River Estuary based on stable nitrogen isotope

doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2015.02.010

Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen 361005, China

Received Date: 2014-07-15
Rev Recd Date: 2014-09-13

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Stable isotope technique has been increasingly applied in food web studies in the past two decades. In the study, we used the stable nitrogen isotope to analyze the trophic levels (TLs) of the 71 fishes belonging to 61 genera, 42 families and 13 orders, which were sampled from June to August 2013 in the Jiulong River Estuary. The δ¹⁵N values of fishes showed the significant variation, ranging from 7.23‰ to 14.66‰. Benthic filter-feeder Ruditapes philippinarum was used as baseline organism, and the estimated TLs of fishes ranged from 1.70 of Pseudorhombus oligodon to 3.89 of Sillago sihama, respectively. Compared to the data from Fishbase, it was found that the TLs of a majority of fishes (83.1%) fell within the range of Fishbase, but 83.1% of fish species was modestly lower in TL than Fishbase data. The TLs of 58.3% species estimated by stable isotope technique differed by less than 0.5 with TLs by traditional stomach content analysis. Relatively low TLs based on stable nitrogen isotope may attribute to the fact that the collected samples in our study were mainly composed of young and juvenile fishes. Our results demonstrate that stable isotope technology is a more useful tool in the estimation of TLs of juvenile fishes. In our study, TLs of some fishes varied significantly with the body size and showed species-specific characteristics: TLs of Tridentiger barbatus and Chelidonichthys kumu spanned 1.54 and 1.43 with body size increasing, respectively, which was far higher than that of Ilisha elongate. Dietary shift of different fishes may be the main factors leading to the difference.
- stable isotope,
- Jiulong River Estuary,
- fishes,
- trophic levels

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