{"title":"Dynamics of Zooplankton Consumption by the Three-Spined Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus (LINNAEUS, 1758) at Different Densities of the Predator","authors":"F. S. Lobyrev","doi":"10.1134/s1063074023060056","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Abstract</h3><p>An experiment was set up to estimate the rate of zooplankton consumption by the three-spined stickleback <i>Gasterosteus aculeatus</i> (Linnaeus, 1758) at different predatordensities. A differential equation describes the dynamics of zooplankton abundance depending on duration of predator feeding. The derived function accurately characterizes the rate of zooplankton consumption by stickleback in the experiment, demonstrating a good agreement between the theoretical prerequisites and the experimental results. The relationship between changing a number of victims during predation, its mortality and consumption rate was revealed. The hypothesis ofconsumption rate proportionalto the number of predators was tested. A comparative analysis of ingestion rate as a function of time and a function of prey density was performed.</p>","PeriodicalId":49584,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Marine Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Russian Journal of Marine Biology","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s1063074023060056","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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An experiment was set up to estimate the rate of zooplankton consumption by the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus (Linnaeus, 1758) at different predatordensities. A differential equation describes the dynamics of zooplankton abundance depending on duration of predator feeding. The derived function accurately characterizes the rate of zooplankton consumption by stickleback in the experiment, demonstrating a good agreement between the theoretical prerequisites and the experimental results. The relationship between changing a number of victims during predation, its mortality and consumption rate was revealed. The hypothesis ofconsumption rate proportionalto the number of predators was tested. A comparative analysis of ingestion rate as a function of time and a function of prey density was performed.
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The Russian Journal of Marine Biology was founded in 1975 by Alexey V. Zhirmunsky, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Russian Journal of Marine Biology covers a wide range of research and some applied aspects of marine biology as a synthetic science related to various fields of study on marine biota and environment. It presents fundamental research on biological processes at molecular, cellular, organismal, and populational levels in marine organisms. Consideration is given to marine objects as models in life sciences. The journal also publishes papers dedicated to events in Russian and international marine biological science and the history of biology.