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Trophic Relationships of a Subtidal Fish Assemblage in the Francisco Coloane Coastal Marine Protected Area, Southern Chilean Patagonia Polar Research ISSN: (Print) 1751-8369 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/zpor20 Trophic relationships of a subtidal fish assemblage in the Francisco Coloane Coastal Marine Protected Area, southern Chilean Patagonia Mathias Hüne, Ernesto Davis, Silvia Murcia, David Gutiérrez & Daniela Haro To cite this article: Mathias Hüne, Ernesto Davis, Silvia Murcia, David Gutiérrez & Daniela Haro (2018) Trophic relationships of a subtidal fish assemblage in the Francisco Coloane Coastal Marine Protected Area, southern Chilean Patagonia, Polar Research, 37:1, 1435107, DOI: 10.1080/17518369.2018.1435107 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17518369.2018.1435107 © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa View supplementary material UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Published online: 27 Feb 2018. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 257 View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=zpor20 POLAR RESEARCH, 2018 VOL. 37, 1435107 https://doi.org/10.1080/17518369.2018.1435107 RESEARCH NOTE Trophic relationships of a subtidal fish assemblage in the Francisco Coloane Coastal Marine Protected Area, southern Chilean Patagonia Mathias Hünea, Ernesto Davisb, Silvia Murciac, David Gutiérrezd & Daniela Haroe aFundación Ictiológica, Santiago, Chile; bCentro de Estudios del Cuaternario de Fuego-Patagonia y Antártica, Punta Arenas, Chile; cLaboratorio de Ecosistemas Marinos Antárticos y Subantárticos, Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile; dFundación para la Integración del Patrimonio Natural y Cultural, Santiago, Chile; eLaboratorio de Ecofisiología y Ecología Isotópica, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile ABSTRACT KEYWORDS 15 13 A combination of stomach content and nitrogen (δ N) and carbon (δ C) stable-isotope Notothenioidei; exotic analysis was used to assess the trophic interactions and feeding habits of three notothe- salmonid; trophic level; nioid coastal fish (Champsocephalus esox, Patagonotothen tessellata and Patagonotothen feeding habits; Magellan cornucola) and one exotic salmon species (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha) with diverse life region; sub-Antarctic habits (benthic and benthopelagic) in the Francisco Coloane Coastal Marine Protected ABBREVIATIONS Area, southern Chile. The stomach contents of C. esox were mainly fish; those of P. ANOVA: analysis of variance cornucola and O. tschawytscha were crustacean decapods, Munida gregaria. A cluster analysis; CMPA: Coastal analysis on isotope data and stable-isotope Bayesian ellipses detected two different Marine Protected Area; HSD: predator groups, one with benthopelagic habits (C. esox and O. tshawytscha)andone Tukey’s honest significant with benthic habits (P. cornucola and P. tessellata). These results were supported with difference test; IRI: index of similar isotopic trophic level of each group. We suggest that the exotic salmon O. relative importance; SEAc: tschawytscha is a generalist predator with a broad trophic niche that may compete with standard ellipse area the native notothenioid C. esox,asbothhaveequivalenttrophiclevelswithsubstantial corrected for sample size; TL: overlap. This preliminary study is the first on trophic relationships of a subtidal fish trophic level assemblage within a remote ecosystem of fjords and channels in Chile’s southern Patagonia. Introduction The notothenioid represented by the genera Champsocephalus, Cottoperca, Eleginops, Paranoto- In the polar regions of the Southern Hemisphere, the thenia and Patagonotothen are the most important notothenioids (Perciformes) occupy the intermediate fish in terms of abundance and diversity of species trophic level in marine food webs (Kock et al. 2012). in shallow subtidal areas (<15 m depth) of the As both predators and prey, they play important eco- fjord and channel ecosystems that make up the logical roles in the marine ecosystem, occupying most Francisco Coloane CMPA in Chile’s southern of the available trophic niches (Eastman 1993). As Patagonia (Pequeño 2000, 2006; Sielfeld et al. predators, they feed on benthic, zooplanktonic and 2006;Reyes&Hüne2012). This is the first (cre- nektonic organisms; as prey, the notothenioids are an ated in 2003) of three CMPAs along the important source of nutrition for top-level consumers, Patagonian ecosystem of fjords and channels. such as marine birds and mammals (Birt et al. 1987; Lying entirely in the Strait of Magellan, the Leopold et al. 1998;LaMesaetal.2004). Despite their CMPA supports high abundance of phyto-zoo- lack of a swim bladder, the notothenioids can prey on plankton (e.g., diatoms, copepods, decapods and pelagic organisms in the water column because of a euphausiids), providing resources to many top modified buoyancy-control mechanism involving predators, such as seabirds and marine mammals reduced skeletal ossification and/or lipid deposits (Haro et al. 2013). This ecosystem is potentially (Eastman 1993; Eastman & Sidell 2002; Fernández threatened by anthropogenic activities, such as the et al. 2012). Thus, they exhibit diverse life habits – introduction of exotic salmonids during the 1970s benthic, benthopelagic, semi-pelagic and pelagic) – to 1990s with the aim of establishing wild popula- which allow them to utilize food resources in a variety tions of chinook salmon (O. tschawytscha)inthe of habitats (Eastman 1993; Gröhsler 1994; Clarke & western shores of Patagonia (Soto et al. 2007; Johnston 1996). Such a wide range of feeding habits Niklitschek et al. 2013). The relatively recent inva- may reduce dietary overlap and interspecific competi- sion of chinook salmon may constitute a major tion (Colwell & Futuyma 1971;Odum1971). CONTACT Mathias Hüne [email protected] Pedro de Valdivia 2086/406, 7511284 Providencia, Santiago, Chile Supplemental data for this article can be accessed here. © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 2 M. HÜNE ET AL. threat to near-shore biodiversity along the Beagle Strait of Magellan in the Francisco Coloane CMPA Channel (Fernández et al. 2010), increasing (Fig. 1). The samples were collected during April resource competition with native fish (e.g., 2016. This pilot survey is framed within an ichthyology Riccialdelli et al. 2017). However, there is scarce research initiative for a remote area of difficult access information on the invasive salmonid feeding and where there is no empirical knowledge on diversity behaviour and trophic interactions with the native, of native and introduced fishes, or on their ecological notothenioid coastal fish assemblage. interactions. All fish were captured using a gill net The purpose of this preliminary study is to determine (length 60 m; height 3 m; mesh size 2.5 cm) from the the feeding habits and trophic interactions of three bottom to the surface with 12-h resting periods. All notothenioid coastal fishes and one exotic salmon species individuals caught were measured and weighed to (O. tschawytscha) with benthic and benthopelagic habits obtain the size range (cm) and total weight (g). The in the Francisco Coloane CMPA through the combined entire digestive tract was removed and conserved in approach of stomach content and stable-isotope (δ13C 80% ethanol for stomach content analysis. In the and δ15N) analyses. This framework permits direct laboratory, stomach contents were identified to the low- insight into the native fishes trophic positions and their est possible prey taxon, counted and weighed. The trophic relationship with an invasive salmonid, assessing contribution of different prey items to the fishes’ diet the threat of resource competition among invasive versus was determined by the IRI. The IRI is expressed as a native fishes in a remote fjord and channel ecosystems of percentage and calculated as: %IRI = %F (%N + %W), Chile’s southern Patagonia. Two methods may be used to where %N is the percentage by number, %W is the examine trophic relationships: stomach content analysis percentage by weight, and %F is the percentage of and stable-isotope ratios. Using both is the ideal approach occurrence (Hyslop 1980;Cortés1997). to compensate for any inherent inaccuracy in each or A sample (±2 cm3)ofdorsalmuscletissuefrom either method. Stomach content analyses provide only a each fish was frozen at −80°C for stable-isotope ana- ‘snapshot’ of dietary habits, often encountering empty lysis. In the laboratory, samples of dorsal muscle tissue stomachs, and may show bias toward prey items with were dried for 72 h at 60°C and subsequently homo- lower digestion rates (Hyslop 1980). The use of stable- genized. All samples underwent a process of lipid isotope (δ13Candδ15N) signatures reflects biologically extraction with a solution of petroleum ether for 3 h integrated nutrients in diet over a long time period (e.g. in a Soxhlet extractor, as lipids are depleted in 13Cwith several months for muscle tissue; Peterson & Fry 1987), respect to other macromolecules (e.g., proteins). It is but it does not provide direct evidence of an organism’s assumed that the δ13Cvalueswilltendtobelower prey items. The two methods in combination provide a than in samples
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