A missing piece in the Arctic food web puzzle? Stomach contents of Greenland sharks sampled in Svalbard, Norway

Polar Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1197-1208

  Leclerc, Lisa Marie E ^a   Lydersen, Christian ^a   Haug, Tore ^b,c   Bachmann, Lutz ^d   Fisk, Aaron T ^e   Kovacs, Kit M ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Diet; Pinnipeds; Predator; Seals; Somniosus microcephalus

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BODY MASS; BYCATCH; CARRION; DIET; FOOD WEB; GADOID; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAULOUT BEHAVIOUR; HUNTING; LONGEVITY; PINNIPED; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; SHARK; STOMACH CONTENT; WHALE;

ARCTIC; NORWAY; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ANARHICHAS; ANARHICHAS LUPUS; ANIMALIA; BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; CETACEA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CYSTOPHORA (MAMMALIA); CYSTOPHORA CRISTATA; ERIGNATHUS; ERIGNATHUS BARBATUS; GADUS MORHUA; MELANOGRAMMUS; MELANOGRAMMUS AEGLEFINUS; PHOCA HISPIDA; PINNIPEDIA; PISCES; SOMNIOSUS MICROCEPHALUS;

EID: 84864331739     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-012-1166-7     Document Type: Article

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