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Food habits and trophic status of Limanda sakhalinensis (Pleuronectidae) on the western Kamchatka shelf in the summer period

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Based on materials of expeditions of TINRO-Center on the western Kamchatka shelf in July 2005, 2008, and 2010, we analyze data on feeding of Sakhalin flounder. Sakhalin flounders are consumers of euphausiids, copepods, amphipods, polychaetes, and juvenile fish. The calculated values of the trophic levels are 3.58–3.95. Consumption of maturing and mature Sakhalin flounder primarily plankton prey leads to divergence of ecological niches with morphologically close yellowfin sole, extends prey species, and apparently provides the basis for the dominance of the western Kamchatka shelf community. Mature and maturing Sakhalin flounders feed predominantly on plankton prey, which leads to a divergence of their ecological niche with morphologically close yellowfin sole and expanding food supply and apparently is the basis of the dominance of flatfish community of the western Kamchatka shelf.

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Original Russian Text © V.V. Napazakov, 2014, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2014, Vol. 54, No. 4, pp. 439–445.

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Napazakov, V.V. Food habits and trophic status of Limanda sakhalinensis (Pleuronectidae) on the western Kamchatka shelf in the summer period. J. Ichthyol. 54, 446–452 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945214040079

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