Trophic relationships between equinoids (Echinodermata) of the intertidal tide pools of La Sardina and Guaimaral, southeastern coast of Cuba
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In this work is characterized the relationships of Diadema antillarum Philippi, 1845, Lytechinus variegatus Lamarck, 1816 and Echinometra viridis A. Agassiz, 1863 by the richness and trophic diversity, breadth and overlap of the niche and their feeding strategies. Thirty-one adult individuals were collected at random for analysis of stomach contents (D. antillarum = 13, L. variegatus = 13 and E. viridis = 5). In the diet, 28 trophic resources were identified and 57% were vegetables. From the breadth of the trophic niche these species are general consumers and their diet is mainly based on vegetable trophic resources. The most abundant dietary resources were the Polysiphonia and Oscillatoria filamentous algae. Feeding strategies show interindividual variations in the use of trophic resources and the compartmentalization of the niche, which presupposes the coexistence without competition of their populations.
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diet, trophic richness, feeding strategy, niche breadth, niche overlap
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Birkeland, C. h. 1989. The influence of echinoderms on coral reef communities, p. 1-79. En: Echinoderm Studies. M. Jangoux y J. M. Lawrence (eds.). Balkema, Rotterdam, Brookfield, Estados Unidos de America, 382 pp.
Bolnick, D. I., R. Svanbäck, J. A. Fordyce, L. H. Yang, J. M. Davis, C. D. Hulsey y M. L. Forister. 2002. The ecology of individuals: incidence and implications of individual specialization. The American Naturalist, 161 (1): 1-28.
Bolnick D. I., R. Svanbäck, M. S. Araújo y L. Persson. 2007. Comparative support for the niche variation hypothesis that more generalized populations also are more heterogeneous. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104: 10075-10079.
Bolnick D. I., T. Ingram, W. E. Stutz, L. K. Snowberg, O. L. Lau y J. S. Paull. 2010. Ecological release from interspecific competition leads to decoupled changes in population and individual niche width. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 277: 1789-1797.
Bronstein, O. y L. Loya. 2014. Echinoid community structure and rates of herbivory and bioerosion on exposed and sheltered reefs. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 456: 8-17.
Cailliet, G. M. y J. P. Barry. 1979. Comparison of food array overlap measures useful in fish feeding habit analysis. Gutshop, 78: 67-79.
Camus, P. A., P. A. Arancibia y I. Ávila-Thieme. 2013. A trophic characterization of intertidal consumers on Chilean rocky shores. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía, 48 (3): 431-450.
Carrete M, S. A. Lambertucci, K. Speziale, O. Ceballos, A. Travaini, M. Delibes, F. Hiraldo y J. A. Donázar. 2010. Winners and losers in human-made habitats: interspecific competition outcomes in two Neotropical vultures. Animal Conservation, 13: 390-398.
Clode, D. y D. W. MacDonald. 1995. Evidence for food composition between mink (Mustela vision) and otter (Lutra lutra) on Scottish island. Journal of Zoology London, 237: 435-444.
Cobb, J. y J. Lawrence. 2005. Diets and coexistence of the sea urchins Lytechinus variegatus and Arbacia punctulata (Echinodermata) along the central Florida gulf coast. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 295: 171-182.
Dall S. R. X., A. M. Bell, D. I. Bolnick y F. L. W. Ratnieks. 2012. An evolutionary ecology of individual differences. Ecology Letters, 15: 1189-1198.
Díaz-Francés, E. y J. Soberón. 2005. Statistical estimation and model selection of species?accumulation functions. Conservation Biology, 19 (2): 569-573.
Entrambasaguas, L., Á. Pérez-Ruzafa, J. A. García-Charton, B. Stobart y J. J. Bacallado. 2008. Abundance, spatial distribution and habitat relationships of echinoderms in the Cabo Verde Archipelago (eastern Atlantic). Marine and Freshwater Research, 59 (6): 477-488.
Ferreira, C., A. Santos de Oliveira y R. Crespo. 2008. Feeding preference of the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816) on seaweeds. Brazilian Journal of Oceanography, 56: 239-247.
Frantzis, A., J. F. Berthon y F. Maggiore. 1988. Relations trophiques entre les oursins Arbacia lixula et Paracentrotus lividus (Echinoidea Regularia) et le phytobenthos infralittoral superficiel dans la baie de Port-Cros (Var, France). Scientific Reports of Port-Cros national Park, 14: 81-140.
Goszcynski, J. 1986. Diet of foxes and martens in central Poland. Acta Theriologica, 31: 491-506.
Greenway, M. 1995. Trophic relationships of macarofauna within a Jamaican seagrass meadow and the role of the echinoid Lytechinus variegatus (Lamarck). Bulletin of Marine Science, 56: 719–736.
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Cabrera Guerrero, A., Roberto Muñoz, R., Batista Saldívar, C. D., Álvarez Denis, F., & Jover Capote, A. (2017). Trophic relationships between equinoids (Echinodermata) of the intertidal tide pools of La Sardina and Guaimaral, southeastern coast of Cuba. Novitates Caribaea, (11), 51–68. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i11.14
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