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Food and food selection of cisco (Coregonus albula L.) in a dysoligotrophic lake

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Forest Water Ecosystems

Part of the book series: Developments in Hydrobiology ((DIHY,volume 13))

Abstract

With minor exceptions, cisco (C. albula) in Lake Suomunjarvi fed on cladocerans and copepods. The food habits were different among two size classes of fish. The composition of cisco diet changed at different depths and times of the day, but the distribution of zooplankton was usually very similar in each period irrespective of the depth or diel period. Daphnia, Bosmina, Cyclops scutifer and Heterocope appendiculata were the main diet of cisco. Calculations of fish electivity indices showed that cisco selected usually large species of cladocerans and copepods and a small cladoceran, Bosmina coregoni. Body-size selection was clear for Daphnia and Bosmina.

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Viljanen, M. (1983). Food and food selection of cisco (Coregonus albula L.) in a dysoligotrophic lake. In: Forsberg, C., Johansson, JÅ. (eds) Forest Water Ecosystems. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7284-1_15

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