INVESTIGADORES
COLAUTTI Dario Cesar
artículos
Título:
Alimentación de la carpa (Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus 1758) en la laguna de Lobos Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Autor/es:
COLAUTTI D. C.; REMES LENICOV M.
Revista:
Ecología Austral
Editorial:
Asociación Argentina de Ecología
Referencias:
Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2001 vol. 11 p. 69 - 78
ISSN:
1667-7838
Resumen:
ABSTRACT. Feeding of carp (Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus 1758) in Lobos shallow lake, Buenos Aires
Province, Argentina: The carp (Cyprinus carpio) is an exotic fish that currently inhabits most of
the Pampasic shallow lakes. A better knowledge of its trophic spectrum and of the relative composition
of its diet may represent a very useful information to understand its biology, as well as the
ecological niche occupied by its populations in these environments. In this work the food habits
of the carp were studied in Lobos shallow lake, from the analysis of 75 digestive tracts of fish with
a mean standard length of 409.7 mm, captured between March and August of 1994. Food items
were counted and classified taxonomically up to the family level. Values for several indexes were
calculated with this information, and the seasonal pattern of variation of the digestive contents
was analyzed using Correspondence Analysis. The species showed a wide trophic spectrum.
The main food items, in order of importance were vegetable fragments, Ciclopoidea, Chidoridae,
Chironomidae, Bosminidae, Harpacticoidae and seeds. The second axis of the ordination showed
the existence of seasonality in the diet, which could be related to the availability of organisms in
the environment. The abundance of zooplanktonic organisms in the diet coincides with that
found in fishes from Asian and European shallow lakes, and it established the major difference
with several deep lakes of the world, where the carp is exclusively bottom-feeder. This could be
due to the opportunistic character and to the trophic plasticity of this species, which would take
advantage of the offer of a particularly abundant food resource in the Pampasic shallow lakes.BSTRACT. Feeding of carp (Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus 1758) in Lobos shallow lake, Buenos Aires
Province, Argentina: The carp (Cyprinus carpio) is an exotic fish that currently inhabits most of
the Pampasic shallow lakes. A better knowledge of its trophic spectrum and of the relative composition
of its diet may represent a very useful information to understand its biology, as well as the
ecological niche occupied by its populations in these environments. In this work the food habits
of the carp were studied in Lobos shallow lake, from the analysis of 75 digestive tracts of fish with
a mean standard length of 409.7 mm, captured between March and August of 1994. Food items
were counted and classified taxonomically up to the family level. Values for several indexes were
calculated with this information, and the seasonal pattern of variation of the digestive contents
was analyzed using Correspondence Analysis. The species showed a wide trophic spectrum.
The main food items, in order of importance were vegetable fragments, Ciclopoidea, Chidoridae,
Chironomidae, Bosminidae, Harpacticoidae and seeds. The second axis of the ordination showed
the existence of seasonality in the diet, which could be related to the availability of organisms in
the environment. The abundance of zooplanktonic organisms in the diet coincides with that
found in fishes from Asian and European shallow lakes, and it established the major difference
with several deep lakes of the world, where the carp is exclusively bottom-feeder. This could be
due to the opportunistic character and to the trophic plasticity of this species, which would take
advantage of the offer of a particularly abundant food resource in the Pampasic shallow lakes.The carp (Cyprinus carpio) is an exotic fish that currently inhabits most of
the Pampasic shallow lakes. A better knowledge of its trophic spectrum and of the relative composition
of its diet may represent a very useful information to understand its biology, as well as the
ecological niche occupied by its populations in these environments. In this work the food habits
of the carp were studied in Lobos shallow lake, from the analysis of 75 digestive tracts of fish with
a mean standard length of 409.7 mm, captured between March and August of 1994. Food items
were counted and classified taxonomically up to the family level. Values for several indexes were
calculated with this information, and the seasonal pattern of variation of the digestive contents
was analyzed using Correspondence Analysis. The species showed a wide trophic spectrum.
The main food items, in order of importance were vegetable fragments, Ciclopoidea, Chidoridae,
Chironomidae, Bosminidae, Harpacticoidae and seeds. The second axis of the ordination showed
the existence of seasonality in the diet, which could be related to the availability of organisms in
the environment. The abundance of zooplanktonic organisms in the diet coincides with that
found in fishes from Asian and European shallow lakes, and it established the major difference
with several deep lakes of the world, where the carp is exclusively bottom-feeder. This could be
due to the opportunistic character and to the trophic plasticity of this species, which would take
advantage of the offer of a particularly abundant food resource in the Pampasic shallow lakes.