Current Literature on the Diet, Importance of Prey Size, and the Use of Bioenergetic Models for Predicting Growth and Consumption of Prey for Young Coho and Chinook Salmon

摘要

A variety of ecological questions about fish growth, predator-prey interactions, and consumption have been answered uing bioenergetics models fish growth. The basic components of an energetic model include: energy intake (prey), growth, and waster (respiration, energy expended by swimming, and waste losses) (Glova and McInerney 1977; Maxine et al. 1989) one of the most common bioenergetic models used in the field of fisheries is 'A Generalized Bioenergetics Model of Fish Growth fro Microcomputers' bu Hewett and Johnson 1987. This model has been used for a variety of fish species. Most of the applications of bioenergetics modeling found in the literature have been done on non-salmonids (Biosclair and Leggett 1989; Carline et al. 1984; Cochran and Rice 1982; Kitchell et al. 1997; Kitchell and breck 1980; Lyons 1984; Rice et al. 1983; Rice and Cochran 1984). There are few references to juvenile salmonid bioenergetics.