Energy content of Antarctic mesopelagic fishes: Implications for the marine food web

Polar Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1045-1051

  Van De Putte, Anton ^a   Flores, Hauke ^b,c   Volckaert, Filip ^a   Van Franeker, Jan Andries ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BUDGET; FISH; FOOD WEB; JUVENILE; MESOPELAGIC ZONE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; WATER CONTENT;

LAZAREV SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BATHYLAGUS ANTARCTICUS; ELECTRONA ANTARCTICA; GYMNOSCOPELUS BRAUERI; PISCES;

EID: 33749827742     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-006-0148-z     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Ainley DG, Fraser WR, Smith WOJ, Hopkins TL, Torres JJ (1991) The structure of upper level pelagic food webs in the Antarctic: effect of phytoplankton distribution. J Mar Syst 2:111-122
2. Ainley DG, Ribic CA, Fraser WR (1992) Does prey preference affect habitat choice in Antarctic seabirds? Mar Ecol Prog Ser 90:207-221
3. Ainley DG, Ribic CA, Fraser WR (1994) Ecological structure among migrant and resident seabirds of the Scotia-Weddell Confluence region. J Anim Ecol 63:247-364
4. Anthony JA, Roby DD, Turco KR (2000) Lipid content and energy density of forage fishes from the northern Gulf of Alaska. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 248:53-78
5. Arnould JPY, Whitehead MD (1991) The diet of Antarctic petrels, cape petrels and southern fulmars rearing chicks in Prydz Bay. Ant Sci 3:19-27
6. Barrera-Oro E (2002) The role of fish in the Antarctic marine food web: differences between inshore and offshore waters in the southern Scotia Arc and west Antarctic Peninsula. Antarct Sci 14:293-309
7. Bost CA, Zorn T, LeMaho Y, Duhamel G (2002) Feeding of diving predators and diel vertical migration of prey: king penguins' diet versus trawl sampling at Kerguelen Islands. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 227:51-61
8. Casaux R, Baroni A, Ramon A (2003) Diet of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella at the Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula. Polar Biol 26:49-54
9. Casaux R, Bellizia L, Baroni A (2004) The diet of the Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella at Harmony Point, South Shetland Islands: evidence of opportunistic foraging on penguins? Polar Biol 27:59-65
10. Cherel Y, Ridoux V (1992) Prey species and nutritive value of food fed during summer to king penguin Aptenodytes patagonica chicks at Possession Island, Crozet Archipelago. Ibis 134:118-127
11. Clarke A, Prince PA (1980) Chemical composition and calorific value of food fed to Mollymauk chicks Diomedea melanophris and Diomedea Chrysostoma at Bird-Island, South Georgia. Ibis 122:488-494
12. Creet S, van Franeker JA, Van Spanje TM, Wolff WJ (1994) Diet of the Pintado Petrel Daption capense at King George Island, Antarctica, 1990/91. Mar Ornithol 22:221-229
13. Donnelly J, Torres JJ, Hopkins TL, Lancraft TM (1990) Proximate composition of Antarctic mesopelagic fishes. Mar Biol 106:13-23
14. Eder EB, Lewis MN (2005) Proximate composition and energetic value of demersal and pelagic prey species from the SW Atlantic Ocean. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 291:43-52
15. Geiger SP, Donnelly J, Torres JJ (2000) Effect of the receding ice-edge on the condition of mid-water fishes in the northwestern Weddell Sea: results from biochemical assays with notes on diet. Mar Biol 137:1091-1104
16. Gon O (1990) Bathylagidae. In: Gon O, Heemstra PC (eds) Fishes of the Southern Ocean. JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, RSA, pp 107-110
17. Greely T, Gartner JVJ, Torres JJ (1999) Age and growth of Electrona antarctica (Pisces: Myctophidae), the dominant mesopelagic fish of the Southern Ocean. Mar Biol 133:145-158
18. Hartmann KJ, Brandt SB (1995) Estimating energy density of fish. Trans Am Fish Soc 124:347-355
19. Hopkins TL, Ainley DG, Torres JJ, Lancraft TM (1993) Trophic structure in open waters of the marginal ice zone in the Scotia-Weddell confluence region during spring (1983). Polar Biol 13:389-397
20. Hubold G (1985) The early life-history of the High-Antarctic silverfish, Pleuragramma antarcticum. In: Siegfried W, Condy P, Laws R (eds) Antarctic nutrient cycles and food webs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, pp 445-451
21. Hulley PA (1990) Myctophidae. In: Gon O, Heemstra P (eds) Fishes of the Southern Ocean. JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, RSA, pp 146-178
22. Kock KH (1992) Antarctic fish and fisheries. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p 359
23. Lancraft TM, Torres JJ, Hopkins TL (1989) Micronekton and macrozooplankton in the open waters near Antarctic ice edge zones (AMERIEZ 1983 and 1986). Polar Biol 9:225-233
24. Lancraft TM, Hopkins TL, Torres JJ, Donnelly J (1991) Oceanic micronektonic/macrozooplanktonic community structure and feeding in ice covered Antarctic waters during the winter (AMERIEZ 1988). Polar Biol 11:157-167
25. Lawson JW, Magalhaes AM, Miller EH (1998) Important prey species of marine vertebrate predators in the northwest Atlantic: proximate composition and energy density. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 164:13-20
26. Lea M, Cherel Y, Guinet C, Nichols P (2002a) Antarctic fur seals foraging in the polar frontal zone: inter-annual shifts in diet as shown from fecal and fatty acid analysis. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 245:281-297
27. Lea MA, Nichols PD, Wilson G (2002b) Fatty acid composition of lipid-rich myctophids and mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) - Southern Ocean food-web implications. Polar Biol 25:843-854
28. Osman LP, Hucke-Gaete R, Moreno CA, Torres D (2004) Feeding ecology of Antarctic fur seals at Cape Shirreff, South Shetlands, Antarctica. Polar Biol 27:92-98
29. Pakhomov EA, Perissinotto R, McQuaid C (1996) Prey composition and daily rations of myctophid fishes in the Southern Ocean. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 134:1-14
30. Paul AJ, Paul JM, Smith RL (1998) Seasonal changes in whole-body energy content and estimated consumption rates of age 0 walleye pollock from Prince William Sound, Alaska. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 47:251-259
31. Pedersen J, Hislop JRG (2001) Seasonal variations in the energy density of fishes in the North Sea. J Fish Biol 59:380-389
32. Phleger CF, Nichols PD, Virtue P (1997) The lipid, fatty acid and fatty alcohol composition of the myctophid fish Electrona antarctica: high levels of wax esters and food chain implications. Ant Sci 9:258-265
33. Pusch C, Hulley PA, Kock KH (2004) Community structure and feeding ecology of mesopelagic fishes in the slope waters of King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica). Deep Sea Res I 51:1685-1708
34. Quillfeldt P (2002) Seasonal and annual variation in the diet of breeding and non-breeding Wilson's storm-petrels on King George Island, South Shetland Islands. Polar Biol 25:216-221
35. Reinhardt SB, Van Vleet ES (1986) Lipid-composition of 22 species of Antarctic midwater zooplankton and fish. Mar Biol 91:149-159
36. Saadettin G, Dincer B, Alemdag N, Colak A, Turfekci M (1998) Proximate composition and selected mineral content of commercially important fish species from the Black Sea. J Sci Food Agric 78:337-342
37. Sabourenkov E (1990) Mesopelagic fish of the Southern Ocean - summary results of recent Soviet studies. WG-FSA-90/23, CCAMLR, Hobart, pp 433-457
38. Siegel V, Loeb V, Bergström B, Schöling S, Haraldsson M, Kitchener J, Vortkamp M (2004) Demography of Antarctic krill in the Lazarev Sea (Subarea 48.6) and the Elephant Island area (Subarea 48.1) in 2004. WG-EMM-04/23, CCAMLR, Hobart, pp 1-22
39. Tierney M, Hindell M, Goldsworthy S (2002) Energy content of mesopelagic fish from Macquarie Island. Ant Sci 14:225-230
40. Torres J, Somero G (1988) Vertical distribution and metabolism in Antarctic mesopelagic fishes. Comp Biochem Physiol 90B:521-528
41. Torres J, Donnelly J, Hopkins T, Lancraft T, Aarset A, Ainley D (1994) Proximate composition and overwintering strategies of Antarctic micronektonic crustacea. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 113:221-232
42. van Franeker JA (2001) Mirrors in ice. PhD Thesis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, p 274
43. van Franeker JA, Bathmann UV, Mathot S (1997) Carbon fluxes to Antarctic top predators. Deep Sea Res II 44:435-455