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Data from: Stable isotopes reveal the effect of trawl fisheries on the diet of commercially exploited species
Hilmar Hinz, Joan Moranta, Stephen Balestrini, Marija Sciberras, Julia R. Pantin, James Monnington, Alex Zalewski, Michel J. Kaiser, Mattias Sköld, Patrik Jonsson, Francois Bastardie & Jan Geert Hiddink
Bottom trawling can change food availability for benthivorous demersal species by (i) changing benthic prey composition through physical seabed impacts and (ii) by removing overall benthic consumer biomass increasing the net availability of benthic prey for remaining individuals. Thus trawling may both negatively and positively influence the quantity and quality of food available. Using δ13C and δ15N we investigated potential diet changes of three commercially exploited species across trawling gradients in the Kattegat (plaice, dab...
Data from: A global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks
Christopher Stephen Bird, Ana Veríssimo, Sarah Magozzi, Kátya G. Abrantes, Alex Aguilar, Hassan Al-Reasi, Adam Barnett, Dana M. Bethea, Gérard Biais, Asuncion Borrell, Marc Bouchoucha, Mariah Boyle, Edward J. Brooks, Juerg Brunnschweiler, Paco Bustamante, Aaron Carlisle, Diana Catarino, Stéphane Caut, Yves Cherel, Tiphaine Chouvelon, Diana Churchill, Javier Ciancio, Julien Claes, Ana Colaço, Dean L. Courtney … & Clive N. Trueman
Sharks are a diverse group of mobile predators that forage across varied spatial scales and have the potential to influence food web dynamics. The ecological consequences of recent declines in shark biomass may extend across broader geographic ranges if shark taxa display common behavioural traits. By tracking the original site of photosynthetic fixation of carbon atoms that were ultimately assimilated into muscle tissues of 5,394 sharks from 114 species, we identify globally consistent biogeographic traits...
Data from: Atlantic bluefin tuna spawn at suboptimal temperatures for their offspring
Patricia Reglero, Aurelio Ortega, Rosa Balbín, Francisco Javier Abascal, Antonio Medina, Edurne Blanco, Fernando De La Gándara, Diego Alvarez-Berastegui, Manuel Hidalgo, Leif Rasmuson, Francisco Alemany & Øyvind Fiksen
Life-history traits such as spawning migrations and timing of reproduction are adaptations to specific environmental constraints and seasonal cycles in many organisms’ annual routines. In this study we analyze how offspring fitness constrains spawning phenology in a large migratory apex predator, the Atlantic bluefin tuna. The reproductive schedule of Atlantic bluefin tuna varies between spawning sites suggesting plasticity to local environmental conditions. Generally, temperature is considered to be the main constraint on tuna spawning phenology....
Data from: Trophic mechanisms underlying bentho-demersal community recovery in the north-east Atlantic
Nina-Larissa Arroyo, Izaskun Preciado, Lucía López-López, Isabel Muñoz & Antonio Punzón
1. Bottom trawling is considered one of the greatest and most widespread causes of anthropogenic change in shelf seas, with major and prolonged impacts in areas with a long history of exploitation by fisheries such as the North-Atlantic. Here, signs of recovery following the put into force of regulations are increasingly being reported. 2. We examined the extent to which biological diversity and functionality are restored when fishing pressure is reduced by evaluating changes in...
Affiliations
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Spanish Institute of Oceanography4
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Bangor University1
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National Oceanography Centre1
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University of Newcastle Australia1
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Stanford University1
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Cape Eleuthera Institute1
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Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority1
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Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé1
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Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife1
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University of Namibia1