文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Zhang, Yingqiu ¹ ; Li, Jie ¹ ; Chen, Fangcan ⁶ ; Li, Yuefei ¹ ; Dai, Shouhui ⁷ ; Britton, J. Robert ⁴ ;

作者机构： 1.Chinese Acad Fishery Sci, Pearl River Fisheries Res Inst, 1 Xingyu Rd, Guangzhou 510380, Peoples R China

2.Minist Agr & Rural Affairs, Expt Stn Sci Observat Fishery Resources & Environm, Guangzhou, Peoples R China

3.Natl Agr Sci Observing & Expt Stn Fisheries Resour, Guangzhou, Peoples R China

4.Bournemouth Univ, Fac Sci & Technol, Dept Life & Environm Sci, Poole, England

5.Minist Agr & Rural Affairs, Key Lab Prevent & Control Aquat Invas Alien Specie, Guangzhou, Peoples R China

6.Guangzhou Qianjiang Water Ecol Technol Co LTD, Guangzhou, Peoples R China

7.Chinese Acad Sci, Equipment Publ Serv Ctr, Key Lab Trop Marine Bioresources & Ecol, South China Sea Inst Oceanol, Guangzhou, Peoples R China

关键词： growth rate; invasive species; niche partitioning; stable isotope; trophic niche

期刊名称：FRESHWATER BIOLOGY （ 影响因子：2.7； 五年影响因子：3.3 ）

ISSN： 0046-5070

年卷期： 2024 年

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Understanding the strength, direction and consequences of the trophic impacts of invasive fish on functionally analogous native fishes is important in invasion impact assessment and for informing management programmes. As functionally analogous native and invasive fishes can share prey resources, there is high potential for competitive interactions, which could affect trophic niche sizes and positions. The highly invasive mrigal carp Cirrhinus mrigala and native mud carp Cirrhinus molitorella now co-exist in many freshwaters in southern China, raising concern on the consequences for mud carp. The trophic interactions of the two species and their consequences (for growth rates and trophic niche sizes as the isotopic niche, calculated using delta 13C and delta 15N) were tested in a pond enclosure experiment based on additive and substitutive treatments using fish in allopatric and sympatric contexts, with results compared with invaded wild communities. In the experiment, specific growth rates decreased significantly as fish abundance in treatments increased. These density-dependent effects were observed in both species and were independent of whether the treatment was allopatric or sympatric. In allopatric treatments, isotopic niches of mud carp increased in size with fish number. Conversely, in sympatric treatments, mud carp isotopic niche size decreased with increased mrigal carp number. For mrigal carp, isotopic niche sizes decreased as fish number increased in both allopatric and sympatric treatments. In sympatric experiment treatments, the isotopic niches of mud carp and mrigal carp were always divergent. This was, however, in contrast to four invaded wild communities, where the isotopic niches of the two fishes always had some overlap. Experimental and field data suggest that although native mud carp could be impacted by mrigal carp, these impacts might only manifest when the species are at very high abundances and inter-specific competitive interactions could be intense. These results also suggest the two species have mechanisms that reduce their inter-specific interactions to minimise their competitive interactions, thus any ecological impacts from mrigal carp might manifest more from indirect than direct processes.