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OIKOS
卷 120, 期 6, 页码 848-854出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18945.x
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- Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
- Swedish Council for Forestry and Agricultural Research
- Swedish Research Council
Intraspecific competition has been shown to favor diet specialization among individuals. However, the question whether the competition takes the form of interference or exploitative in driving diet specialization has never been investigated. We investigated individual diet specialization in the isopod Saduria entomon, in relation to forager and resource biomasses in a system that exhibits predator-prey fluctuations in density. We found that individual diet specialization was only affected by the biomass of their preferred prey (Monoporeia affinis) and not by Saduria biomass; diet specialization was higher when Monoporeia biomass was low compared to when there were high Monoporeia biomass. Population diet breadth increased at low Monoporeia biomass whereas individual diet breadths were marginally affected by Monoporeia biomass. Overall, this led to the increase in diet specialization at low Monoporeia biomass. This study shows that predator-prey dynamics might influence diet specialization in the predator and that resource biomass, not forager biomass might be important for individual diet specialization.
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