Prey caloric value and predator energy needs: foraging predictions for wild spinner dolphins

By K. Benoit‐Bird. 2004

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Body size and trophic position in a temperate estuarine food web (2008, background): “The positive relationship between size and caloric content of prey consumed by fishes a c t a o e c o l o g i c a 3 3 ( 2 0 0 8 ) 1 4 4 – 1 5 3 151 described by Benoit-Bird (2004) supports the view of optimal foraging.”
Unravelling the mysteries of a mesopelagic diet: a large apex predator specializes on small prey (2013, background): “1986)] and the mean caloric value of diel migrating prey species and caloric value of the mesopelagic prey [2 837 kcal g 1 wet weight of shrimp, squid and myctophid fishes (Benoit-Bird 2004)].”
Energy Density of Patagonian Aquatic Organisms and Empirical Predictions Based on Water Content (2007, methodology): “Energy density (ED) has been used to evaluate diet quality (Wanless et al. 2005), compare the relative importance of prey items (Harris and Hislop 1978), correct gastric evacuation rates used as input in models (Pedersen and Hislop 2001), explain the foraging behavior of predators ( Benoit-Bird 2004”