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    Species‐specific ontogenetic diet shifts among <scp>Neotropical</scp><i>Crenicichla</i>: using stable isotopes and tissue stoichiometry
    (Wiley, 2013) Edward D. Burress; Ana Maria Ribeiro de Castro Duarte; Wilson S. Serra; Michael M. Gangloff; Lynn Siefferman
    Ontogenetic diet shifts were compared among five sympatric pike cichlids Crenicichla in a subtropical South American stream using stable C and N isotopes and tissue stoichiometry (C:N). Within species, stable N isotopes were positively related to body size while C:N showed negative relationships. Stable C isotopes, however, were not related to body size in any species. By modelling the switch to piscivory using gut content-isotope-body size relationships, diet shifts were shown to be species-specific with regard to both rate and degree of piscivory. Compared to other piscivorous lineages, Crenicichla appear to be unusually small-bodied (based on maximum body size). Because of their diversity, abundance and dynamic size-structured functional roles, Crenicichla may exert broad and complex predation pressures on the aquatic community.