Temporal and spatial variation in the diet of a marine top predator-links with commercial fisheries

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 367, Issue , 2008, Pages 223-232

  Votier, Stephen C ^a   Bearhop, Stuart ^b   Fyfe, Ralph ^a   Furness, Robert W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diet; Discards; Fisheries; Foraging; Scavenger; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMERSAL FISH; DIETARY SHIFT; FISHERY DISCARD; FISHERY ECONOMICS; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OTOLITH; SCAVENGER; SEABIRD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TELEOST;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; SHETLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CATHARACTA; CATHARACTA SKUA; MELANOGRAMMUS; MELANOGRAMMUS AEGLEFINUS; MERLANGIUS MERLANGUS; MICROMESISTIUS POUTASSOU;

EID: 53949098372     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07621     Document Type: Article

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