Seasonal Trophic Ecology and Diet Shift in the Common Sole Solea solea in the Central Adriatic Sea.

ABSTRACT: The common sole, Solea solea, is one the most important commercial species in Europe and, within the Mediterranean, the Adriatic basin is the most crucial area for its production. Although the species is overexploited in the basin, data on its trophic ecology are fragmentary, even though this is one of the most important features within the Ecosystem Approach to Fishery. Here, we analysed temporal variations in the feeding ecology of the species by using an integrated approach of stomach contents and stable isotope analyses coupled with the analysis of some condition indices such as the gonadosomatic and the hepatosomatic indices. Changes in diet and trophic level across the years in adult females were clearly linked to the different energetic requirements facing reproduction. Temporal cha

SUBMITTER: Fanelli E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9736202 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature