Predator size - prey size relationships of marine fish predators: interspecific variation and effects of ontogeny and body size on trophic-niche breadth

By F. Scharf, F. Juanes, R. Rountree. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Trophic position estimates of marine teleosts using amino acid compound specific isotopic analysis (2015, neutral): “In fact, changes in diet are common in growing ﬁsh, as gape and motility limitations decrease with increasing size or age (Scharf et al. 2000; Romanuk et al. 2011).”
Feeding habits and trophic levels of Mediterranean fish (2004, background): “, of lower TROPH) is never excluded, since this prey’s relative vulnerability remains high (e.g., Juanes, 1994; Juanes and Conover, 1994; Scharf et al., 2000).”
The Visually Mediated Escape Response in Fish: Predicting Prey Responsiveness and the Locomotor Behaviour of Predators and Prey (2002, background): “This model considers the prey response within a time interval for which speed is sizerelated as in Videler (1993). However, for cases in which survival is determined very early in the response, speed within a given (relatively short) time (i.”
Impacts of environmental change and direct and indirect harvesting effects on the dynamics of a marine fish community (2008, background): “These proportions were estimated based on a qualitative assessment of general accounts (Scott and Scott 1988; Brown et al. 1996; Colette and KleinMacPhee 2002; Froese and Pauly 2007).”
Geographic and ontogenetic variation in the diet and daily ration of the bonnethead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, from the eastern Gulf of Mexico (2007, methodology): “Relative frequency distributions of prey size-predator size ratios for bonnetheads in the eastern Gulf of Mexico are comparable to those of elasmobranch predators in the northwestern Atlantic whose diets also consist of mostly small, invertebrate prey (less than 20% of fish length; e.g., smooth dogf”
Feeding ecology of Central Baltic sprat Sprattus sprattus larvae in relation to zooplankton dynamics: implications for survival (2007, background): “Pepin & Penney (1997) observed an increase in niche breadth with larval growth for 6 out of 11 species investigated, while Scharf et al. (2000) observed a decrease in breadth of relative prey sizes for a number of the investigated fish species.”
Using an individual-based model of fish assemblages to study the response of size spectra to changes in fishing (2004, background): “Fish predation is often described as being an opportunistic process constrained by two main factors: local prey availability and predator size – prey size ratio (Ursin 1973; Scharf et al. 2000).”
Effects of body size, age and maturity stage on diet in a large shark: ecological and applied implications (2008, background): “Like in other sharks, individuals of all sizes preyed on small prey, but only large sharks were able to consume large prey (Chiaramonte and Pettovello 2000; Scharf et al. 2000; Bethea et al. 2004; Lucifora et al. 2006).”
Shifting gears: enzymatic evidence for the energetic advantage of switching diet in wild-living fish (2002, background): “…and maximum- sized prey with increasing body size across numerous predatory fish species, both freshwater (Mittelbach and Persson 1998) and marine (Scharf et al. 2000), is consistent with one of the most basic relationships in animal ecology (e.g., Peters 1983, for the positive correlation…”
Diets of walleye pollock Theragra chalcogramma in the Doto area, northern Japan : ontogenetic and seasonal variations (2002, background): “Food habits and their seasonal variation Pollock diet showed extensive variabilities both by fish size and season, reflecting changes in prey catchability as well as co-occurrence of predator and prey (Eggers 1982, Persson et al. 1996, Scharf et al. 2000).”
Trophic role of Atlantic cod in the ecosystem (2009, background): “Indeed, individual large cod may be found with several thousands of euphausiids in their stomachs (Lilly 1987; Scharf et al. 2000).”
The relationships between mouth size and shape and body length for 18 species of marine fishes and their trophic implications (2003, background): “ Scharf et al. (2000) state that MV and MH are both linearly related to LT for Raja ocellata Mitchill, Squalus acanthias L., Urophycis chuss (Walbaum), Gadus morhua L., Merluccius bilinearis (Mitchill), Hemitripterus americanus Cuvier and Lophius americanus Valenciennes, whereas only MH is linearly”
fish–macrofauna interactions in a kelp (laminaria hyperborea) forest (2005, background): “Labrus bergylta may choose larger prey than the smaller labrids because of its size (Scharf et al., 2000).”
The functional significance of inherited differences in feeding morphology in a sympatric polymorphic population of Arctic charr (2004, background): “The inherited variation in mouth anatomy had clear implications for foraging, since the maximum size of an approximately spherical food particle that could be consumed increased with gape in both morphs, as described for many species of fish (see e.g. Wankowski and Thorpe, 1979; Boubee and Ward, 199”
Influence of diet on growth, condition and reproductive capacity in Newfoundland and Labrador cod (Gadus morhua) : Insights from stable carbon isotopes (δ13C) (2007, background): “The most consistent finding of this study, with respect to a correspondence between biological condition and diet endpoints in cod, was our observation that among-population differences in these parameters manifest significantly only over medium size ranges ( 30–69 cm), the size range that is repres”