Passing the gut of juvenile flounder, Platichthys flesus: differential survival of zoobenthic prey species |
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Authors: | K Aarnio E Bonsdorff |
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Institution: | Hus? Biological Station, Department of Biology, ?bo Akademi University, FIN-22220 Emkarby, Finland, FI
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Abstract: | We studied the resistance of benthic prey organisms (Ostracoda, Hydrobia spp., Macoma balthica) to digestion by juvenile flounder, Platichthys flesus (L.), in a series of aquarium experiments. Results showed that some food species are able to survive the gut passage (Ostracoda
53 to 75%, Hydrobia spp. 46 to 92%). This has ecological implications, as increasing eutrophication of the Baltic Sea favours prey species that
are nondigestible for the juvenile flounder. Thus, seemingly small changes in food-web structure may have unpredictable effects
for the predatory fish.
Received: 8 March 1997 / Accepted: 14 March 1997 |
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