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Eglite E, Mohm C, Dierking J. Stable isotope analysis in food web research: Systematic review and a vision for the future for the Baltic Sea macro-region. AMBIO 2023; 52:319-338. [PMID: 36269552 PMCID: PMC9589642 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01785-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2021] [Revised: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
Food web research provides essential insights into ecosystem functioning, but practical applications in ecosystem-based management are hampered by a current lack of knowledge synthesis. To address this gap, we provide the first systematic review of ecological studies applying stable isotope analysis, a pivotal method in food web research, in the heavily anthropogenically impacted Baltic Sea macro-region. We identified a thriving research field, with 164 publications advancing a broad range of fundamental and applied research topics, but also found structural shortcomings limiting ecosystem-level understanding. We argue that enhanced collaboration and integration, including the systematic submission of Baltic Sea primary datasets to stable isotope databases, would help to overcome many of the current shortcomings, unify the scattered knowledge base, and promote future food web research and science-based resource management. The effort undertaken here demonstrates the value of macro-regional synthesis, in enhancing access to existing data and supporting strategic planning of research agendas.
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Affiliation(s)
- Elvita Eglite
- Marine Ecology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
- Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, 715 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
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- Marine Ecology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Marine Ecology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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Tani S, Matsuo R, Atsumi W, Kawauchi K, Ashida T, Yagi T, Imatake K, Suzuki Y, Takahashi A, Matsumoto N, Okumura Y. Higher Frequency of Fish Intake May Be Associated with a Lower Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio: Anti-Atherosclerotic Effects of Fish Consumption. ANNALS OF NUTRITION AND METABOLISM 2021; 77:146-153. [PMID: 34038899 DOI: 10.1159/000515915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2020] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Higher fish consumption has been reported to be associated with a lower incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD). An elevated neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), a marker of systemic inflammation, is reportedly associated with the development of adverse CAD events. We hypothesized that a higher fish intake was associated with a lower NLR. METHODS AND RESULTS This cross-sectional study was conducted in a cohort of 8,237 Japanese subjects who had no history of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease registered at the Health Planning Center of Nihon University Hospital between April 2018 and March 2019. The average weekly frequency of fish intake was 2.32 ± 1.31 days. The NLR decreased significantly as the weekly frequency of fish intake (0 day, 1-2 days, 3-4 days, or 5-7 days) increased (p = 0.001). A multiple stepwise regression analysis identified the weekly frequency of fish intake (β = -0.045, p < 0.0001) and habitual alcohol intake (β = -0.051, p < 0.0001) as significant but weak, negative, and independent determinants of the NLR. Conversely, the presence of metabolic syndrome (β = 0.046, p < 0.0001), the presence of treatment for diabetes mellitus (β = 0.054, p < 0.0001), and the presence of treatment for hypertension (β = 0.043, p < 0.0001) were significant positive and independent determinants of the NLR. CONCLUSIONS The present results suggest that a higher frequency of fish intake appears to be associated with a lower NLR, suggesting an anti-systemic inflammation effect. This association may partially explain the preventive effects of a higher fish intake on CAD events.
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- Shigemasa Tani
- Department of Health Planning Center, Nihon University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Cardiology, Nihon University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Nihon University School of Medicines, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Nihon University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Nihon University School of Medicines, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Nihon University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Nihon University School of Medicines, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Nihon University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Nihon University School of Medicines, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Nihon University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Nihon University School of Medicines, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Nihon University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Nihon University School of Medicines, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Health Planning Center, Nihon University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Health Planning Center, Nihon University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Cardiology, Nihon University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Nihon University School of Medicines, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Health Planning Center, Nihon University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Nihon University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Nihon University School of Medicines, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Nihon University School of Medicines, Tokyo, Japan
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Jacobson P, Gårdmark A, Huss M. Population and size-specific distribution of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar in the Baltic Sea over five decades. JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY 2020; 96:408-417. [PMID: 31755101 PMCID: PMC7028083 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2019] [Accepted: 11/21/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Population-specific assessment and management of anadromous fish at sea requires detailed information about the distribution at sea over ontogeny for each population. However, despite a long history of mixed-stock sea fisheries on Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, migration studies showing that some salmon populations feed in different regions of the Baltic Sea and variation in dynamics occurs among populations feeding in the Baltic Sea, such information is often lacking. Also, current assessment of Baltic salmon assumes equal distribution at sea and therefore equal responses to changes in off-shore sea fisheries. Here, we test for differences in distribution at sea among and within ten Atlantic salmon Salmo salar populations originating from ten river-specific hatcheries along the Swedish Baltic Sea coast, using individual data from >125,000 tagged salmon, recaptured over five decades. We show strong population and size-specific differences in distribution at sea, varying between year classes and between individuals within year classes. This suggests that Atlantic salmon in the Baltic Sea experience great variation in environmental conditions and exploitation rates over ontogeny depending on origin and that current assessment assumptions about equal exploitation rates in the offshore fisheries and a shared environment at sea are not valid. Thus, our results provide additional arguments and necessary information for implementing population-specific management of salmon, also when targeting life stages at sea.
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- Philip Jacobson
- Department of Aquatic ResourcesSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesÖregrundSweden
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- Department of Aquatic ResourcesSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesÖregrundSweden
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- Department of Aquatic ResourcesSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesÖregrundSweden
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Keinänen M, Käkelä R, Ritvanen T, Pönni J, Harjunpää H, Myllylä T, Vuorinen PJ. Fatty acid signatures connect thiamine deficiency with the diet of the Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar) feeding in the Baltic Sea. MARINE BIOLOGY 2018; 165:161. [PMID: 30369636 PMCID: PMC6182616 DOI: 10.1007/s00227-018-3418-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2018] [Accepted: 09/08/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
Thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency in salmonids related to a lipid-rich fish diet causes offspring mortality in the yolk-sac fry phase. A low free thiamine (THIAM) concentration in eggs is an indication of this syndrome. Thiamine deficiency of salmon (Salmo salar) feeding in the Baltic Sea, called M74, was connected to the principal prey fish and feeding area using fatty acid (FA) signature analysis. The FAs of feeding salmon from two areas of the Baltic Sea, the Baltic Proper (57°10' 19°30') and the Bothnian Sea (61°30' 20°00') in 2004, reflected the principal prey species in these areas, sprat (Sprattus sprattus) and herring (Clupea harengus), respectively. Arachidonic acid (ARA, 20:4n-6) and 18:1n-7 indicated dietary herring, 18:1n-9 dietary sprat and 14:0 feeding in the Baltic Proper. The muscle FA profile of non-M74 female spawners of the River Simojoki in a year (1998) with a moderate M74 incidence and salmon of a non-M74 year (2004) reflected herring FAs, whereas the FAs in the M74 year and specifically in M74 females displayed characteristics of sprat. In the M74 year, the THIAM concentration had the strongest positive correlation with the proportion of muscle ARA, and the strongest negative correlations with 14:0 and the ratios 18:1n-9/ARA and 14:0/ARA. Thus, ARA along with 14:0 and these ratios were the most sensitive FA indicators of the dietary species and origin of the M74 syndrome. Despite the pre-spawning fasting, tissue FA signatures were consequently able to connect dietary sprat in the Baltic Proper with thiamine deficiency in Baltic salmon.
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- Marja Keinänen
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), P.O. Box 2, FI-00791 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 65, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira, Mustialankatu 3, FI-00790 Helsinki, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), P.O. Box 2, FI-00791 Helsinki, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Puuvillakuja 6, FI-65200 Vaasa, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4 a, FI-20520 Turku, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), P.O. Box 2, FI-00791 Helsinki, Finland
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