Food Items and Feeding Habits of White Bream, Blicca bjoerkna (Linnaeus, 1758) Inhabiting Lake Ladik (Samsun, Turkey).
     
Yazarlar (5)
Prof. Dr. Okan YAZICIOĞLU Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Savaş Yılmaz
Ondokuz Mayis Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Doç. Dr. Ramazan YAZICI Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Mahmut YILMAZ Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Nazmi Polat
Ondokuz Mayis Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Açık Erişim Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Dergi ISSN 1303-2712 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 01-2017
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 17 / 2 / 371–378 DOI 10.4194/1303-2712-v17_2_16
Özet
Food and feeding habits of white bream, Blicca bjoerkna specimens captured from Lake Ladik between November 2009 and October 2010 were investigated with respect to length groups and seasons. Stomach contents of 207 individuals ranging in size from 115 to 243 mm fork length were analyzed and 23.67% were empty. There was a seasonal variation in the feeding intensity of this species. The spring and summer feeding intensity were quite lower than other seasons. The food items in stomach showed a wide spectrum, ranging from phytoplankton, macrophytes, zooplankton to aquatic insects. Therefore, white bream displayed an omnivorous feeding. The relative importance index (RII%) indicated that Bosmina, Macrophytes, Chironomid larvae, Melosira, Navicula, Cymbella and Cyclopoid copepod were the most importance food items of white bream. The feeding strategy indicated that white bream plays an accelerator role in eutrophication. According to the Schoener’s overlap index values, there was a high degree of consumed food overlap between spring-autumn (Cxy = 0.78095) and summer-winter (Cxy = 0.92035).
Anahtar Kelimeler
Cyprinid fish | Eutrophic lake | Feeding intensity | Prey | Turkey