Body size mediates trophic interaction strength of novel fish assemblages under climate change

被引:2
作者
Sasaki, Minami [1 ]
Kingsbury, Kelsey M. [1 ]
Booth, David J. [2 ]
Nagelkerken, Ivan [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Adelaide, Sch Biol Sci, Southern Seas Ecol Labs, Adelaide, SA, Australia
[2] Univ Technol Sydney, Fac Sci, Fish Ecol Lab, Sydney, NSW, Australia
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
body size; competitive interactions; ecological niche; global warming; range shifts; stable isotopes; stomach content; trait similarity; STABLE-ISOTOPE; STOMACH CONTENTS; RANGE-EXPANSION; MARINE; NICHE; REEF; TEMPERATURE; COMMUNITY; RESOURCE; ATLANTIC;
D O I
10.1111/1365-2656.14079
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
Ecological similarity plays an important role in biotic interactions. Increased body size similarity of competing species, for example, increases the strength of their biotic interactions. Body sizes of many exothermic species are forecast to be altered under global warming, mediating shifts in existing trophic interactions among species, in particular for species with different thermal niches. Temperate rocky reefs along the southeast coast of Australia are located in a climate warming hotspot and now house a mixture of temperate native fish species and poleward range-extending tropical fishes (vagrants), creating novel species assemblages. Here, we studied the relationship between body size similarity and trophic overlap between individual temperate native and tropical vagrant fishes. Dietary niche overlap between vagrant and native fish species increased as their body sizes converged, based on both stomach content composition (short-term diet), stable isotope analyses (integrated long-term diet) and similarity in consumed prey sizes. We conclude that the warming-induced faster growth rates of tropical range-extending fish species at their cool water ranges will continue to converge their body size towards and strengthen their degree of trophic interactions and dietary overlap with co-occurring native temperate species under increasing ocean warming. The strengthening of these novel competitive interactions is likely to drive changes to temperate food web structures and reshuffle existing species community structures. We show how body size similarity between range-extending tropical and sympatric temperate fishes in a global hotspot of climate warming mediates their degree of diet similarity. Our results suggest a strengthening of these novel trophic interactions as warming is set to further reduce body size differences between these species.image
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页码:705 / 714
页数:10
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