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JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY
Volume 86, Issue 4, Pages 1444-1453Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12650
Keywords
carbon isotopes; fish diet; Mugilidae; nitrogen isotopes; trophic level
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- IRD RAP research unit
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Potential trophic competition between two sympatric mullet species, Mugil cephalus and Mugil curema, was explored in the hypersaline estuary of the Saloum Delta (Senegal) using C-13 and N-15 composition of muscle tissues. Between species, N-15 compositions were similar, suggesting a similar trophic level, while the difference in C-13 compositions indicated that these species did not feed from exactly the same basal production sources or at least not in the same proportions. This result provides the first evidence of isotopic niche segregation between two limno-benthophageous species belonging to the geographically widespread, and often locally abundant, Mugilidae family. (C) 2015 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles
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