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Title: Dietary Guild Structure in Fish Assemblages and Trophic Position of Constituent Species in Brush Parks of a Tropical Estuary
Authors: Gammanpila, M.
Amarasinghe, U.S.
Wijeyaratne, M.J.S.
Keywords: artificial fish shelters
dietary habits
fish aggregation devices
fish community structure
trophic index
Issue Date: 2019
Publisher: Asian Fisheries Society
Citation: Gammanpila,M., Amarasinghe,U.S. and Wijeyaratne,M.J.S. (2019).Dietary Guild Structure in Fish Assemblages and Trophic Position of Constituent Species in Brush Parks of a Tropical Estuary.Asian Fisheries Society,32 (2019).p.8–18. DOI:https://doi.org/10.33997/j.afs.2019.32.01.002.
Abstract: Trophic guild structure and dietary niche breadth in tropical fish communities are important to identify functional groups and to understand how trophic positions of constituent species help coexistence. Objective of the present study was to investigate whether the constituent species of fish assemblages in brush parks could be grouped into trophic guilds and how these species contribute to structure the fish community along trophic dimensions. Diets of 46 fish species caught in brush parks were analysed and the food items were categorised into 11 broad groups. Based on the composition of diets, fish were grouped into 8 trophic guilds. Levin’s index of niche breadth indicated that the constituent species in the trophic guilds for which food was abundant, were generalists, whereas the trophic guilds of higher trophic levels were specialists. Within each trophic guild, constituent species showed different trophic indices indicating low inter-specific competition resulting in optimum food resource utilisation.
URI: http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/20191
ISSN: 0116-6514
2073-3720
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