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Dietary-morphological relationships in fish assemblages of small forested streams in the Bolivian Amazon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2007

Carla Ibañez ,
Pablo A. Tedesco ,
Rémy Bigorne ,
Bernard Hugueny ,
Marc Pouilly ,
Claudia Zepita ,
José Zubieta  and
Thierry Oberdorff
Carla Ibañez
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Département Milieux et Peuplements Aquatiques, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 43 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris, France Institut d'Ecologia Aquàtica, Universitat de Girona. Campus de Montilivi, 17071 Girona, Spain Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Unidad de Limnologia y Recursos Acuáticos, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Casilla 5263, Cochabamba, Bolivia Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UMR CNRS 5023, Université de Lyon 1, 43 Bd. du 11 de Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France Unidad de Limnologia y Recursos Acuáticos, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Casilla 5263, Cochabamba, Bolivia Instituto de Ecología – Unidad de Limnología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Casilla 10077, La Paz, Bolivia
Pablo A. Tedesco
Affiliation:
Institut d'Ecologia Aquàtica, Universitat de Girona. Campus de Montilivi, 17071 Girona, Spain
Rémy Bigorne
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Unidad de Limnologia y Recursos Acuáticos, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Casilla 5263, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Bernard Hugueny
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UMR CNRS 5023, Université de Lyon 1, 43 Bd. du 11 de Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
Marc Pouilly
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Unidad de Limnologia y Recursos Acuáticos, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Casilla 5263, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Claudia Zepita
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ecología – Unidad de Limnología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Casilla 10077, La Paz, Bolivia
José Zubieta
Affiliation:
Unidad de Limnologia y Recursos Acuáticos, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Casilla 5263, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Thierry Oberdorff
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Département Milieux et Peuplements Aquatiques, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 43 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris, France
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Abstract

We explored the relationships between diet and morphology in 30 fish species from forested tropical streams of the Bolivian Amazon. These species were first assigned to eight broad trophic guilds based on stomach contents analysis. The relationships between diet and morphology were then examined using Redundancy Analysis, after having checked for potential phylogenetical effects. Results show that, independently of any phylogenetic constraints, some of the trophic guilds could be grossly predicted from few relevant morphological attributes (i.e. relative intestinal length, standard length and mouth orientation) and thus suggest a significant link between diet and morphology. In other words, species having similar diet tend to converge to some extent on some morphological attributes. This link was nevertheless rather weak, suggesting that even if morphology may set limits to patterns of resource use, these limits are broad enough to allow fishes changing their choice of prey resources to respond to local biotic and/or abiotic conditions.

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DietMorphologyPhylogenyConvergenceTropical streamsFishesBolivia
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Research Article
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Aquatic Living Resources , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 131 - 142
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© EDP Sciences, IFREMER, IRD, 2007

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