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TI Benthic prey production index estimated from trawl survey supports the food limitation hypothesis in coastal fish nurseries
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AF Day, Louise
   Le Bris, Hervé
   SAULNIER, Erwan
   Pinsivy, Lucas
   BRIND'AMOUR, Anik
AS 1:1,2;2:2;3:1,2;4:2;5:1;
FF 1:PDG-RBE-EMH;2:;3:;4:;5:PDG-RBE-EMH;
C1 IFREMER, EMH, Rue de l'île d'Yeu, B.P. 21105, 44311, Nantes Cedex 03, France
   ESE, Ecology and Ecosystems Health, Agrocampus Ouest, INRAE, 35042, Rennes, France
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   AGROCAMPUS OUEST, FRANCE
SI NANTES
SE PDG-RBE-EMH
IN WOS Ifremer UPR
   copubli-france
IF 2.929
TC 8
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00600/71239/69607.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR NURSE
DE ;Young-of-the-year fish;Macrobenthic production;Trawl;Grab;Bay of Biscay;Quantile regression
AB Coastal and estuarine habitats function as nurseries for many commercial marine species. In these ecosystems, the hypothesis that food supply limits juvenile fish density and survival has been widely debated. Direct approaches that test this hypothesis in temperate soft-bottom nurseries are data-intensive as they rely on beam trawl to collect juvenile fish and grab or core to collect their prey within the macrobenthic community. Thus, application has often been limited to a few sampling stations and temporal snapshots. However, scientific beam trawl surveys, conducted periodically in nurseries, sample, besides juvenile fish, benthic invertebrates including potential prey species. Using data collected solely from beam trawl surveys, we tested whether food supply limits juvenile fish densities in several French nurseries. First, we validated that data of benthic invertebrates from bottom trawl surveys could be used to estimate an index of benthic prey production, by comparing data collected by grabs and trawls at the same sampling locations. Using this index on an extended trawl dataset, we estimated inter-annual variability of benthic prey production among several nurseries along the coast of the Bay of Biscay. Estimates of benthic prey production index were similar among nurseries, although, these nurseries displayed different local hydrological patterns (currents and residence time). The index was finally used to investigate whether benthic prey production limits young-of-the-year fish density using quantile regressions. We found a significant and positive relationship between the benthic prey production index and young-of-the-year fish densities, including flatfish and round fish species. Hence, our study supports the hypothesis that trophic limitation occurs for juvenile fish in coastal and estuarine nurseries during their first year of life, although other factors likely limit them locally. 
PY 2020
PD APR
SO Estuarine Coastal And Shelf Science
SN 0272-7714
PU Elsevier BV
VL 235
UT 000527915700008
DI 10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106594
ID 71239
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