Food Selectivity in Juvenile Three-Spined Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus L. (Gasterosteidae) at Nursery Grounds in the White Sea
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. Size Structure and Abundance of Gasterosteus aculeatus Juveniles
3.2. Feeding Intensity of Gasterosteus aculeatus
3.3. Stomach Content Analysis
3.4. Food Resources: Zooplankton
3.5. Food Selectivity
4. Discussion
4.1. August Planktonic Food Resources of Juvenile Sticklebacks
4.2. Size Structure and Abundance of Juvenile Sticklebacks at Nursery Grounds
4.3. Feeding Intensity in G. aculeatus Juveniles
4.4. Stomach Content in Juvenile G. aculeatus
4.5. Prey Selectivity by Juvenile Sticklebacks in the White Sea
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Site | Coordinates | Intertidal Habitat | G. aculeatus Sample Size, Ind. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Date 1 | Date 2 | ||||
Keret | N 66.30261 | E 33.69054 | rocky shore | 30 | 12 |
Krugliash | N 66.33070 | E 33.54565 | rockweeds | 30 | 11 |
Koliushkovaya | N 66.31335 | E 33.64348 | lagoon, eelgrass bed | 30 | 30 |
Letnaya | N 66.24456 | E 33.79524 | eelgrass bed | 30 | 30 |
Podpakhta | N 66.29600 | E 33.61527 | rockweeds | 30 | 30 |
Seldianaya | N 66.33765 | E 33.62485 | eelgrass bed | 30 | 30 |
Factor | R-Value | p-Value | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Date | 0.33 | 0.0001 | ||
Site | 0.27 | 0.0001 | ||
Date 1 | 0.38 | 0.0001 | ||
Date 2 | 0.37 | 0.0001 | ||
Pairwise, Date 1 | Pairwise, Date 2 | |||
R-value | p-value | R-value | p-value | |
Keret-Krugliash | 0.39 | 0.0001 | 0.44 | 0.0001 |
Keret-Koliushkovaya | 0.73 | 0.0001 | 0.81 | 0.0001 |
Keret-Letnaya | 0.44 | 0.0001 | 0.1 | 0.0851 |
Keret-Podpakhta | 0.25 | 0.0001 | 0.13 | 0.0728 |
Keret-Seldianaya | 0.5 | 0.0001 | 0.51 | 0.0001 |
Krugliash-Koliushkovaya | 0.53 | 0.0001 | 0.55 | 0.0001 |
Krugliash-Letnaya | 0.15 | 0.0002 | 0.41 | 0.0001 |
Krugliash-Podpakhta | 0.12 | 0.0014 | 0.49 | 0.0002 |
Krugliash-Seldianaya | 0.12 | 0.0005 | 0.5 | 0.0001 |
Koliushkovaya-Letnaya | 0.75 | 0.0001 | 0.52 | 0.0001 |
Koliushkovaya-Podpakhta | 0.57 | 0.0001 | 0.61 | 0.0001 |
Koliushkovaya-Seldianaya | 0.55 | 0.0001 | 0.13 | 0.0001 |
Letnaya-Podpakhta | 0.24 | 0.0001 | 0.15 | 0.0001 |
Letnaya-Seldianaya | 0.16 | 0.0001 | 0.38 | 0.0001 |
Podpakhta-Seldianaya | 0.18 | 0.0001 | 0.33 | 0.0001 |
Nursery Ground Type | Date 1 | Date 2 | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | SE N | B | SE B | N | SE N | B | SE B | |
lagoon | 126 | - | 5040 | - | 30 | - | 1500 | - |
eelgrass beds | 35.8 | 15.05 | 327.7 | 222.64 | 13.2 | 11.22 | 282.2 | 239.39 |
rocky shore | 17.6 | - | 142.7 | - | 12.5 | - | 465.9 | - |
rockweeds | 7.9 | 3.51 | 50.8 | 12.29 | 16.4 | 11 | 440.2 | 329.88 |
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Genelt-Yanovskaya, A.S.; Genelt-Yanovskiy, E.A.; Polyakova, N.V.; Ivanov, M.V.; Ivanova, T.S.; Lajus, D.L. Food Selectivity in Juvenile Three-Spined Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus L. (Gasterosteidae) at Nursery Grounds in the White Sea. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11, 2369. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11122369
Genelt-Yanovskaya AS, Genelt-Yanovskiy EA, Polyakova NV, Ivanov MV, Ivanova TS, Lajus DL. Food Selectivity in Juvenile Three-Spined Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus L. (Gasterosteidae) at Nursery Grounds in the White Sea. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 2023; 11(12):2369. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11122369
Chicago/Turabian StyleGenelt-Yanovskaya, Anna S., Evgeny A. Genelt-Yanovskiy, Natalia V. Polyakova, Mikhail V. Ivanov, Tatiana S. Ivanova, and Dmitry L. Lajus. 2023. "Food Selectivity in Juvenile Three-Spined Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus L. (Gasterosteidae) at Nursery Grounds in the White Sea" Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 11, no. 12: 2369. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11122369