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Title: | Fish–prey interactions in, and associated data from, a temperate stream of the Yura River, Kyoto, Japan |
Identifier: | ERDP-2018-03.1.1 |
Abstract: |
Although quantitative data on interspecific interactions within complex food webs are essential for evaluation of assumptions, hypotheses, and predictions of ecological theories; empirical studies yielding quantitative data on complex food webs are very limited. Ecological information on body size, habitat use, and seasonality of the component species of food webs aids in determining the mechanisms of food web structures. Ideally, ecological information on component species should be obtained contemporaneously when used to describe quantitative food webs, but such observations and sampling strategies are labor intensive and thus have been rarely described. We conducted year-round samplings of, and performed observations on, a temperate stream: the upper reaches of the Yura River, Kyoto, Japan. We derived quantitative data on the abundance, biomass, body mass, microhabitat use, and those seasonality of 7 fish species and 167 invertebrate taxa of the temperate stream food web. In addition, we estimated the per mass consumption rates of 7 predatory fish species, consuming 183 prey invertebrates, and the ratios between the per mass consumption rates of the 7 predatory fish species and the production rates of 78 prey invertebrates in each trophic link.
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Keywords: |
- abundance
- biomass
- body mass
- consumption/production ratio
- consumption rate
- microhabitat
- prey production
- quantitative food web
- seasonality
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Involved Parties
Data Set Owners: |
Individual: | Hikaru Nakagawa |
Organization: | Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University |
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1 Onojya, Miyama, |
Nantan, Kyoto 601-0703 Japan |
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Data Set Contacts: |
Individual: | Hikaru Nakagawa |
Organization: | Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University |
Address: |
1 Onojya, Miyama, |
Nantan, Kyoto 601-0703 Japan |
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Data Set Characteristics
Geographic Region: |
Geographic Description: | Upper reaches of Yura River, Ashiu Forest Research Station of the Kyoto University Field Science Education and Research Center, Japan |
Bounding Coordinates:
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West: | 135.716529 degrees
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East: | 135.716529 degrees
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North: | 35.308225 degrees
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South: | 35.308225 degrees
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Sampling, Processing and Quality Control Methods
Step by Step Procedures
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For detailed information, see http://db.cger.nies.go.jp/JaLTER/ER_DataPapers/archives/2018/ERDP-2018-03/metadata
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Data Set Usage Rights
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