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. Knowledge of food resource partitioning between sympatric fish species is critical for understanding the fish communities functioning. Four sympatric fish species (Salmo trutta, Pseudochondrostoma duriense, Squalius carolitertii and Barbus bocagei) were captured in August 2010 in the River Tormes (Ávila, Central Spain) in order to study food resource partitioning between fish species such us as a possible mechanism enabling their coexistence, using a fuzzy principal component analysis (FPCA). Diet comparison among species shows that detritus are present in P. duriense, B. bocagei and S. carolitertii, although in different occurrence, showing that these species present typically omnivorous feeding habits. Regarding prevalent food, in all species, benthic prey constituted the most important prey in abundance terms, and terrestrial invertebrates were only consumed by S. trutta, S. carolitertii and P. duriense. High overlap values (Schoener's index from 0.8 up to 1) were found, but it may not indicate competition, since species can adopt different strategies to overcome competence. Thus, prey traits analyses suggest that differences in macrohabitat use, drift behaviour of prey and prey size are important adaptive features that may reduce the inter-specific competition in the fish community and permit the food partitioning that allows coexistence.

Summer food resource partitioning between four sympatric fish species in Central Spain (River Tormes)