Unexpected dietary preferences of Eurasian Spoonbills in the Dutch Wadden Sea

Autor:	C.J. Camphuysen, Otto Overdijk, Estefania Velilla, Henk W. van der Veer, Theunis Piersma, Han Olff, Tamar Lok, Mardik F. Leopold, Petra de Goeij, Jeltje Jouta
Přispěvatelé:	Olff group, Piersma group, Conservation Ecology Group, Animal Ecology
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	0106 biological sciences MIGRATION MODELS Intertidal zone Zoology Intertidal 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Pomatoschistus Flatfish Onderzoeksformatie DELTA-C-13 Stable isotope analysis in R STABLE-ISOTOPES Bayesian mixing models 14. Life underwater SDG 14 - Life Below Water WATERBIRDS Pleuronectes biology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Crangon crangon Eurasian spoonbill Platalea leucorodia leucorodia biology.organism_classification Spoonbill Shrimp KNOTS CALIDRIS-CANUTUS ASSUMPTIONS Regurgitate analysis DISCRIMINATION Restoration Original Article FOOD-WEB DELTA-N-15
Zdroj:	Journal of Ornithology Jouta, J, de Goeij, P, Lok, T, Velilla, E, Camphuysen, C J, Leopold, M, van der Veer, H W, Olff, H, Overdijk, O & Piersma, T 2018, ' Unexpected dietary preferences of Eurasian Spoonbills in the Dutch Wadden Sea : spoonbills mainly feed on small fish not shrimp ', Journal of Ornithology, vol. 159, no. 3, pp. 839-849 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-018-1551-2 Journal of Ornithology 159 (2018) 3 Journal of Ornithology, 159(3), 839-849 Journal of Ornithology, 159(3), 839-849. SPRINGER Journal of Ornithology, 159(3), 839-849. Springer Verlag
ISSN:	0021-8375 2193-7192
DOI:	10.1007/s10336-018-1551-2
Popis:	After an historical absence, over the last decades Eurasian Spoonbills Platalea leucorodia leucorodia have returned to breedon the barrier islands of the Wadden Sea. The area offers an abundance of predator-free nesting habitat, low degrees ofdisturbance, and an extensive intertidal feeding area with increasing stocks of brown shrimp Crangon crangon, the assumedmain prey of P. leucorodia leucorodia. Nevertheless, newly established and expanding colonies of spoonbills have surprisinglyquickly reached plateau levels. Here we tested the often stated assertion that spoonbills mainly rely on brown shrimpas food, by quantifying the diet of chicks on the basis of regurgitates and by analysis of blood isotopes using stable isotopeBayesian mixing models. Both methods showed that, rather than brown shrimp being the staple food of spoonbill chicks,small flatfish (especially plaice Pleuronectes platessa) and gobies (Pomatoschistus spp.) were their main prey. Unlike shrimp,small flatfish have been reported to be rather scarce in the Wadden Sea in recent years, which may explain the rapid saturationof colony size due to food-related density-dependent recruitment declines of growing colonies. By way of their diet andcolony growth characteristics, spoonbills may thus indicate the availability of small fish in the Wadden Sea. We predict thatthe recovery to former densities of young flatfish and other juvenile/small fish in the Wadden Sea will be tracked by changingdiets (more fish) and an increase in the size of Eurasian Spoonbill colonies across the Wadden Sea.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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