Ecological value of coastal habitats for commercially and ecologically important species

RD Seitz, H Wennhage, U Bergström… - ICES Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Many exploited fish and macroinvertebrates that utilize the coastal zone have declined, and
the causes of these declines, apart from overfishing, remain largely unresolved. Degradation …

Tracking, feather moult and stable isotopes reveal foraging behaviour of a critically endangered seabird during the non‐breeding season

RE Meier, SC Votier, RB Wynn, T Guilford… - Diversity and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The movement patterns of marine top predators are likely to reflect responses to prey
distributions, which themselves can be influenced by factors such as climate and fisheries …

Evidence of resource partitioning between fin and sei whales during the twentieth-century whaling period

DL Buss, E Hearne, RHY Loy, A Manica, TC O'Connell… - Marine Biology, 2022 - Springer
Investigating resource partitioning of marine predators is essential for understanding
coexistence of sympatric species and the functional role they play in marine ecosystems …

Stable isotopes demonstrate seasonally stable benthic‐pelagic coupling as newly fixed nutrients are rapidly transferred through food chains in an estuarine fish …

MRD Cobain, RAR McGill… - Journal of Fish Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Seasonal differences in the availability of resources potentially result in the food web
architecture also varying through time. Stable isotope analyses are a logistically simple but …

Food web functioning of the benthopelagic community in a deep-sea seamount based on diet and stable isotope analyses

I Preciado, JE Cartes, A Punzón, I Frutos… - Deep Sea Research …, 2017 - Elsevier
Trophic interactions in the deep-sea fish community of the Galicia Bank seamount (NE
Atlantic) were inferred by using stomach contents analyses (SCA) and stable isotope …

Two's company, three'sa crowd: fine-scale habitat partitioning by depth among sympatric species of marine mesopredator

NE Humphries, SJ Simpson, VJ Wearmouth… - Marine Ecology …, 2016 - int-res.com
A sympatric assemblage of morphologically similar predators is expected to exhibit fine-
scale habitat segregation, or resource partitioning, to reduce the effects of direct competition …

Development of the large fish indicator and associated target for a Northeast Atlantic fish community

L Modica, F Velasco, I Preciado, M Soto… - ICES Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The large fish indicator (LFI) was developed to support the North Sea fish community
Ecological Quality Objective (EcoQO) pilot study, intended to establish an operational …

Small-scale spatial variations of trawling impact on food web structure

I Preciado, NL Arroyo, JM González-Irusta… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bottom trawling is one of the main anthropogenic pressures that impact soft-bottom habitats,
directly affecting benthic and demersal communities, as well as their food web structure. To …

A comparison between two GAM models in quantifying relationships of environmental variables with fish richness and diversity indices

J Zhao, J Cao, S Tian, Y Chen, S Zhang, Z Wang… - Aquatic ecology, 2014 - Springer
Various regression methods can be used to quantify the relationships between fish
populations and their environment. Strong correlations often existing between …

Trophic ecology of yellownose skate Zearaja chilensis, a top predator in the south‐western Atlantic Ocean

M Belleggia, N Andrada, S Paglieri… - Journal of fish …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The diet and trophic level (TL) of the yellownose skate Zearaja chilensis in the south‐
western Atlantic Ocean (35°–54° S), and how these varied in relation to body size, sex …