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ArticleEcology and evolution2022

Improving stable isotope assessments of inter- and intra-species variation in coral reef fish trophic strategies.

Jonathan D Cybulski, Christina Skinner, Zhongyue Wan, Carmen K M Wong, Robert J Toonen, Michelle R Gaither, Keryea Soong, Alex S J Wyatt, David M Baker

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.

Jonathan D CybulskiThe Swire Institute of Marine Science The University of Hong Kong Shek O Hong Kong SAR.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8415-6162
Christina SkinnerDepartment of Ocean Science The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Hong Kong SAR.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8490-2615
Zhongyue WanSchool of Biological Sciences The University of Hong Kong Pok Fu Lam Hong Kong SAR.
Carmen K M WongState Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution City University of Hong Kong Kowloon Hong Kong SAR.
Robert J ToonenHawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, School of Ocean & Earth Sciences & Technology University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Kaneohe Hawaii USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6339-4340
Michelle R GaitherDepartment of Biology University of Central Florida Orlando Florida USA.
Keryea SoongDepartment of Oceanography National Sun Yat-sen University Kaohsiung Taiwan.
Alex S J WyattDepartment of Ocean Science The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Hong Kong SAR.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1339-9546
David M BakerThe Swire Institute of Marine Science The University of Hong Kong Shek O Hong Kong SAR.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · HKIstituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche · ITCity University of Hong Kong · HKNational Sun Yat-sen University · TWUniversity of Central Florida · USUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · USUniversity of Hong Kong · HK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fish have one of the highest occurrences of individual specialization in trophic strategies among Eukaryotes. Yet, few studies characterize this variation during trophic niche analysis, limiting our understanding of aquatic food web dynamics. Stable isotope analysis (SIA) with advanced Bayesian statistics is one way to incorporate this individual trophic variation when quantifying niche size. However, studies using SIA to investigate trophodynamics have mostly focused on species- or guild-level (i.e., assumed similar trophic strategy) analyses in settings where source isotopes are well-resolved. These parameters are uncommon in an ecological context. Here, we use Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses in R (SIBER) to investigate cross-guild trophodynamics of 11 reef fish species within an oceanic atoll. We compared two- (

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individual specializationisotopic nichereef fish dietsSIBERstable isotope analysistrophic ecologytrophodynamicsδ15N, δ13C, and δ34S

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