Biokinetics and discrimination factors for δ13C and δ15N in the omnivorous freshwater crustacean, Cherax destructor

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 878-886

  Veliscek Carolan, J ^a   Mazumder, D ^a   Dimovski, C ^a   Diocares, R ^a   Twining, J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

biokinetics; Cherax destructor; fractionation; laboratory study; stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CARBON ISOTOPE; CRAYFISH; DIET; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LABORATORY METHOD; MACROINVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; OMNIVORY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TURNOVER;

CHERAX DESTRUCTOR; CRUSTACEA;

EID: 84868682384     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF11240     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Al-Maslamani, I., Le Vay, L., and Kennedy, H. (2009). Feeding on intertidal microbial mats by postlarval tiger shrimp, Penaeus semisulcatus De Haan. Marine Biology 156, 2001-2009. doi:10.1007/S00227-009-1231-0.
2. Alves-Stanley, C. D., and Worthy, G. A. J. (2009). Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope turnover rates and diet-tissue discrimination in florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris). The Journal of Experimental Biology 212, 2349-2355. doi:10.1242/JEB. 027565.
3. Beatty, S. J. (2006). The diet and trophic positions of translocated, sympatric populations of Cherax destructor and Cherax cainii in the Hutt River, Western Australia: evidence of resource overlap. Marine and Freshwater Research 57, 825-835. doi:10.1071/MF05221. (Pubitemid 44870737)
4. Benke, A. C., Huryn, A. D., Smock, L. A., and Wallace, J. B. (1999). Length-mass relationships for freshwater macroinvertebrates in North America with particular reference to the southeastern United States. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 18, 308-343. doi:10.2307/1468447.
5. Bosley, K. L., Witting, D. A., Chambers, C., and Wainright, S. C. (2002). Estimating turnover rates of carbon and nitrogen in recently metamorphosed winter flounder Pseudopleuronectes americanus with stable isotopes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 236, 233-240. doi:10.3354/MEPS236233. (Pubitemid 34780695)
6. Caut, S., Angulo, E., and Courchamp, F. (2009). Variation in discrimination factors (D15N and D13C): the effect of diet isotopic values and applications for diet reconstruction. Journal of Applied Ecology 46, 443-453. doi:10.1111/J. 1365-2664. 2009. 01620. X
7. Checkley, D. M., Jr, and Entzeroth, L. C. (1985). Elemental and isotopic fractionation of carbon and nitrogen by marine, planktonic copepods and implications to the marine nitrogen cycle. Journal of Plankton Research 7, 553-568. doi:10.1093/PLANKT/7. 4. 553.
8. DeNiro, M. J., and Epstein, S. (1978). Influence of diet on the distribution of carbon isotopes in animals. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 42, 495-506. doi:10.1016/0016-7037(78)90199-0.
9. DeNiro, M. J., and Epstein, S. (1981). Influence of diet on the distribution of nitrogen isotopes in animals. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 45, 341-351. doi:10.1016/0016-7037(81)90244-1.
10. Dennis, C. A., MacNeil, M. A., Rosati, J. Y., Pitcher, T. E., and Fisk, A. T. (2010). Diet discrimination factors are inversely related to d15Nand d13C values of food for fish under controlled conditions. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 24, 3515-3520. doi:10.1002/RCM. 4807.
11. Dubois, S., Jean-Louis, B., Bertrand, B., and Lefebvre, S. (2007). Isotope trophic-step fractionation of suspension-feeding species: implications for food partitioning in coastal ecosystems. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 351, 121-128. doi:10.1016/J. JEMBE. 2007. 06. 020. (Pubitemid 47371016)
12. Duffy, R. E., Godwin, I., Nolan, J., and Purvis, I. (2011). The contribution of naturally occurring food items to the diet of Cherax destructor when fed formulated diets of differing protein levels. Aquaculture 313, 107-114. doi:10.1016/J. AQUACULTURE. 2010.11. 040.
13. Dumas, J. B. A. (1826). Memoire sur quelques points de la theorie atomique. Annales de Chimie et Physique 33, 334-414.
14. Fagan, K.-A., Koops, M. A., Arts, M. T., and Power, M. (2011). Assessing the utility of C:N ratios for predicting lipid content in fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68, 374-385. doi:10.1139/F10-119.
15. Fantle, M. S., Dittel, A. I., Schwalm, S. M., Epifanio, C. E., and Fogel, M. L. (1999). A food web analysis of the juvenile blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, using stable isotopes in whole animals and individual amino acids. Oecologia 120, 416-426. doi:10.1007/S004420050874. (Pubitemid 29429060)
16. Fila, L., Carmichael, R. H., Shriver, A., and Valiela, I. (2001). Stable N isotopic signatures in bay scallop tissue, feces, and pseudofeces in Cape Cod estuaries subject to different N loads. The Biological Bulletin 201, 294-296. doi:10.2307/1543374. (Pubitemid 33023636)
17. Fisk, A. T., Tittlemier, S. A., Pranschke, J. L., and Norstrom, R. J. (2002). Using anthropogenic contaminants and stable isotopes to assess the feeding ecology of Greenland sharks. Ecology 83, 2162-2172. doi:10.1890/0012- 9658(2002)083[2162:UACASI]2. 0. CO;2. (Pubitemid 36524755)
18. Fisk, A. T., Sash, K., Maerz, J., Palmer, W., Carroll, J. P., and MacNeil, M. A. (2009). Metabolic turnover rates of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in captive juvenile snakes. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 23, 319-326. doi:10.1002/RCM. 3880.
19. Fry, B., and Arnold, C. (1982). Rapid 13C/12C turnover during growth of brown shrimp (Penaeus aztecus). Oecologia 54, 200-204. doi:10.1007/BF00378393. (Pubitemid 13284787)
20. Gannes, L. Z., O'Brien, D. M., and Martinez del Rio, C. (1997). Stable isotopes in animal ecology: assumptions, caveats and a call for more laboratory experiments. Ecology 78, 1271-1276. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[1271:SIIAEA] 2. 0. CO;2.
21. Hesslein, R. H., Hallard, K. A., and Ramlal, P. (1993). Replacement of sulfur, carbon, and nitrogen in tissue of growing broad whitefish (Coregonus nasus) in response to a change in diet traced by d34S, d13C, and d15N. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 50, 2071-2076. doi:10.1139/F93-230. (Pubitemid 2039846)
22. Hobson, K. A., and Clark, R. G. (1992). Assessing avian diets using stable isotopes I: turnover of 13C in tissues. The Condor 94, 181-188. doi:10.2307/1368807.
23. Hwang, Y. T., Millar, J. S., and Longstaffe, F. J. (2007). Do d15N and d13C values of feces reflect the isotopic composition of diets in small mammals? Canadian Journal of Zoology 85, 388-396. doi:10.1139/Z07-019. (Pubitemid 46877744)
24. Johannes, R. E., and Satomi, M. (1966). Composition and nutritive value of fecal pellets of a marine crustacean. Limnology and Oceanography 11, 191-197. doi:10.4319/LO. 1966. 11. 2. 0191.
25. Johannsson, O. E., Leggett, M. F., Rudstam, L. G., Servos, M. R., Mohammadian, M. A., Gal, G., Dermott, R. M., and Hesslein, R. H. (2001). Diet of Mysis relicta in Lake Ontario as revealed by stable isotope and gut content analysis. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58, 1975-1986. doi:10.1139/F01-118. (Pubitemid 33023424)
26. Johnston, K., Robson, B. J., and Fairweather, P. G. (2011). Trophic positions of omnivores are not always flexible: evidence from four freshwater crayfish. Austral Ecology 36, 269-279. doi:10.1111/J. 1442-9993. 2010.02147. X
27. Kelleway, J., Mazumder, D., Wilson, G., Saintilan, N., Knowles, L., and Kobayah, T. (2010). Trophic structure of benthic resources and consumers varies across a regulated floodplain wetland. Marine and Freshwater Research 61, 430-440. doi:10.1071/MF09113.
28. MacAvoy, S. E., Arneson, L. S., and Basset, E. (2006). Correlation of metabolism with tissue carbon and nitrogen turnover rate in small mammals. Oecologia 150, 190-201. doi:10.1007/S00442-006-0522-0. (Pubitemid 44607239)
29. MacNeil, M. A., Drouillard, K. G., and Fisk, A. T. (2006). Variable uptake and elimination of stable nitrogen isotopes between tissues in fish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63, 345-353. doi:10.1139/F05-219.
30. Mart́nez del Rio, C., Wolf, N., Carleton, S. A., and Gannes, L. Z. (2009). Isotopic ecology ten years after a call for more laboratory experiments. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 84, 91-111. doi:10.1111/J. 1469-185X. 2008. 00064. X
31. Overmyer, J. P., MacNeil, M. A., and Fisk, A. T. (2008). Fractionation and metabolic turnover of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in black fly larvae. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 22, 694-700. doi:10.1002/RCM. 3413. (Pubitemid 351373951)
32. Parker, P. L., Anderson, R. K., and Lawrence, A. (1989). A13Cand I5Ntracer study of nutrition in aquaculture: Penaeus vannamei in a pond grow-out system. In 'Stable isotopes in ecological research'. (Eds P. W. Rundel, J. R. Ehleringer and K. A. Nagy. pp. 289-303. (Springer-Verlag Inc. : New York.
33. Perga, M., and Grey, J. (2010). Laboratory measures of isotopic discrimination factors: comments on Caut, Angulo & Couchamp (2008, 2009). Journal of Applied Ecology 47, 942-947. doi:10.1111/J. 1365-2664. 2009. 01730. X
34. Peterson, B. J., and Fry, B. (1987). Stable isotopes in ecosystem studies. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 18, 293-320. doi:10.1146/ANNUREV. ES. 18. 110187. 001453.
35. Post, D. M. (2002). Using stable isotopes to estimate trophic position: models, methods and assumptions. Ecology 83, 703-718. doi:10.1890/0012- 9658(2002)083[0703:USITET]2. 0. CO;2. (Pubitemid 36524158)
36. Post, D. M., Layman, C. A., Arrington, D. A., Takimoto, G., Quattrochi, J., and Montana, C. G. (2007). Getting to the fat of the matter: models, methods and assumptions for dealing with lipids in stable isotope analyses. Oecologia 152, 179-189. doi:10.1007/S00442-006-0630-X (Pubitemid 46640011)
37. Reich, K. J., Bjorndal, K. A., and Martinez del Rio, C. (2008). Effects of growth and tissue type on the kinetics of 13C and 15N incorporation in a rapidly growing ectotherm. Oecologia 155, 651-663. doi:10.1007/S00442-007-0949-Y
38. Sponheimer, M., Robinson, T., Ayliffe, L., Passey, B., Roeder, B., Shipley, L., Lopez, E., Cerling, T., Dearing, D., and Ehleringer, J. (2003). An experimental study of carbon-isotope fractionation between diet, hair and feces of mammalian herbivores. Canadian Journal of Zoology 81, 871-876. doi:10.1139/Z03-066. (Pubitemid 36990278)
39. Stenroth, P., Holmqvist, N., Nystrom, P., Berglund, O., Larsson, P., and Graneli, W. (2006). Stable Isotopes as an indicator of diet in omnivorous crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus): the influence of tissue, sample treatment and season. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63, 821-831. doi:10.1139/F05-265. (Pubitemid 43797924)
40. Suzuki, K. W., Kasai, A., Nakayama, K., and Tanaka, M. (2005). Differential isotopic enrichment and half-life among tissues in Japanese temperate bass (Lateolabrax japonicus) juveniles: implications for analyzing migration. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62, 671-678. doi:10.1139/F04-231. (Pubitemid 40902388)
41. Sweeting, C. J., Jennings, S., and Polunin, N. V. C. (2005). Variance in isotopic signatures as a descriptor of tissue turnover and degree of omnivory. Functional Ecology 19, 777-784. doi:10.1111/J. 1365-2435. 2005. 01019. X (Pubitemid 44933501)
42. Systat Software Inc (2004). 'SigmaStat for Windows, Version 3. 11. ' (Systat Software: Point Richmond, CA.
43. Tarboush, R. A., MacAvoy, S. E., Macko, S. A., and Connaughton, V. (2006). Contribution of catabolic tissue replacement to the turnover of stable isotopes in Danio rerio. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84, 1453-1460. doi:10.1139/Z06-136. (Pubitemid 46192005)
44. Tieszen, L. L., Boutton, T. W., Tesdahl, K. G., and Slade, N. A. (1983). Fractionation and turnover of stable carbon isotopes in animal tissues: implications for d13C analysis of diet. Oecologia 57, 32-37. doi:10.1007/BF00379558. (Pubitemid 15275016)
45. Underwood, A. J., and Chapman, M. G. (1989). 'GMAV5 for Windows. An Analysis of Variance Program. ' (Institute of Marine Ecology, University of Sydney: Sydney.
46. Vander Zanden, M. J., and Rasmussen, J. B. (2001). Variation in d 15N and d 13C trophic fractionation: implications for aquatic food web studies. Limnology and Oceanography 46, 2061-2066. doi:10.4319/LO. 2001. 46. 8. 2061. (Pubitemid 34009955)
47. Vander Zanden, M. J., Shuter, B. J., Lester, N., and Rasmussen, J. B. (1999). Patterns of food chain length in lakes: a stable isotope study. American Naturalist 154, 406-416. doi:10.1086/303250. (Pubitemid 129759382)
48. Vanderklift, M. A., and Ponsard, S. (2003). Sources of variation in consumer-diet d15N enrichment: a meta-analysis. Oecologia 136, 169-182. doi:10.1007/S00442-003-1270-Z (Pubitemid 36933250)
49. Voigt, C. C., Rex, K., Michener, R. H., and Speakman, J. R. (2008). Nutrient routing in omnivorous animals tracked by stable carbon isotopes in tissue and exhaled breath. Oecologia 157, 31-40. doi:10.1007/S00442-008-1057-3.
50. Whicker, F. W., and Schultz, V. (1982). 'Radioecology: Nuclear Energy and the Environment. ' (CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL.
51. Wolf, N., Carleton, S. A., and Martinez del Rio, C. (2009). Ten years of experimental animal isotopic ecology. Functional Ecology 23, 17-26. doi:10.1111/J. 1365-2435. 2009. 01529. X