Trophic guilds of fishes in sandbank habitats of a Neotropical river
Pereira, Poliana Ribeiro; Agostinho, Carlos Sérgio; Oliveira, Rafael José de; Marques, Elineide Eugênio.
Neotrop. ichthyol
; 5(3): 399-404, July-Sept. 2007. ilus, tab
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| VETINDEX | ID: vti-1766
The objective of this study was to characterize the trophic structure of the community of fishes exploiting riverine sandbank habitats. Collections were carried out during the period of October 1999 to December 2003, on six sand banks in the upper and middle portions of the Tocantins River drainage basin in central Brazil. The availability of food resources was evaluated based on the volume of the items present in the stomachs of all species. A total of 2,127 stomachs of fish belonging to 50 species were analyzed. Nine main trophic guilds grouped the local ichthyofauna according to diet. Aquatic-origin items were the preferred source for 55.5 percent of the groups analyzed, whereas terrestrial-origin items composed 44.4 percent. Items of undetermined origin (detritus and sediment), although present in 89 percent of the guilds, were the predominant food in only one trophic group. Terrestrial insects and fish were the food sources with the largest biomass available in the environment. Sandbank environments are homogeneous, with little shelter and food available; as a rule, the species that occupy these environments are generalists(AU)
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