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Seasonal habitat use of three predatory fishes in a freshwater ecosystem

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To understand the spatiotemporal overlap in the habitat use of sympatric predators, we studied longitudinal activity and reservoir section and depth use of pike (Esox lucius), pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) and catfish (Silurus glanis) in the Římov Reservoir, using an autonomous telemetry system for 11 months. We found significant differences among these species in studied parameters that varied considerably over tracked period. Pike consistently used the same sections of the reservoir, while pikeperch and catfish frequently visited a tributary during the warm season (late spring and early autumn), and moved closer to the dam during the cold season (late autumn to early spring). Pike longitudinal activity was highest in the cold season, pikeperch in the warm season, and catfish activity peaked in both seasons. Overlap in the depth use among species was higher in the warm season, when all species used the upper layer of the water column, and lower in the cold season, when pikeperch and catfish used deeper areas. These results demonstrated overlay and temporal variation of habitat use among these predators, as well as potential spatiotemporal space for their direct ecological interactions.

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Authors would like to acknowledge all FishEcU members for their help during fieldwork and they would like to thank to Vilém Děd for his help with data processing and Lindi Belfield for English correction. The authors also thank Samuel Westrelin and an anonymous reviewer for providing helpful comments and suggestions that improved the manuscript.

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The work was supported from ERDF/ESF project Biomanipulation as a tool for improving water quality of dam reservoirs (Grant No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_025/0007417) and the project QK1920011 “Methodology of predatory fish quantification in drinking-water reservoirs to optimize the management of aquatic ecosystems”. IJ acknowledges the sponsorship provided by the J. E. Purkyně Fellowship of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

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    Milan Říha, Ruben Rabaneda-Bueno, Ivan Jarić, Allan T. Souza, Lukáš Vejřík, Vladislav Draštík, Petr Blabolil, Michaela Holubová, Tomas Jůza, Pavel Rychtecký, Zuzana Sajdlová, Luboš Kočvara, Michal Tušer, Marie Prchalová, Jaromír Seďa & Jiří Peterka

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All authors contributed substantial comments during manuscript preparation. MŘ: Conceptualization. MŘ: Data curation. RRB, MŘ, KØG: Formal analysis. RRB: Statistical analysis. MŘ, JP, PB: Funding acquisition. MŘ, LV, IJ, ATS, LV, V.Draštík, PB, MH, TJ, PR, ZS, LK, MT, MP, MS, JP: Investigation. MŘ, KØG, IJ, AST: Methodology. RRB, MŘ: Visualization. MŘ, RRB: Writing—original draft. All authors: Writing—review & editing.

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Říha, M., Rabaneda-Bueno, R., Jarić, I. et al. Seasonal habitat use of three predatory fishes in a freshwater ecosystem. Hydrobiologia 849, 3351–3371 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-022-04938-1

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