Feeding relationships in Mediterranean bathyal assemblages elucidated by stable nitrogen and carbon isotope data

By Nicholas Polunin, B. Morales-Nin, W. E. Pawsey, J. Cartes, J. Pinnegar, J. Moranta. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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• Stable isotope analysis as a tool for elasmobranch conservation research: a primer for non-specialists (2012, unknown): “2002) and with other environmental variables (Polunin et al. 2001).”
• Unravelling the ecological role and trophic relationships of uncommon and threatened elasmobranchs in the western Mediterranean Sea (2015, background): “In the NW Mediterranean Sea, skates may occupy a similar TL to small sharks such as Galeus melastomus, Etmopterus spinax and Scy lio - rhinus canicula (Cortés 1999, Polunin et al. 2001, Albo-Puigserver et al. 2015).”
• Depth-dependence in stable isotope ratio δ15N of benthic POM consumers: The role of particle dynamics and organism trophic guild (2007, background): “The first indication for such a depth-related dN increase owing to degeneration of the basal food source was found in higher trophic level consumers (fish and crustaceans) on the western Mediterranean slope (Polunin et al., 2001) and in the northeast Atlantic Ocean (Rau et al.”
• Bypassing the abyssal benthic food web: Macrourid diet in the eastern North Pacific inferred from stomach content and stable isotopes analyses (2008, result): “d13C and d15N values of the benthic animals and basal organic matter (POM and surface sediments) were strongly correlated, indicating that the photosynthetically derived organic matter is the base of this abyssal food web, as found in other isotope studies of bathyal (Polunin et al. 2001) and abyssa”
• Food web dynamics in the Scotia Sea in summer: A stable isotope study (2012, background): “Higher dN in zooplankton with increasing depth has previously been found for calanoid copepods, Pareuchaeta species and large mesozooplankton in general (Polunin et al., 2001; Koppelmann et al., 2009; Laakman and Auel, 2010).”
• An assessment of sample processing methods for stable isotope analyses of marine food webs (2006, methodology): “, 1995), acidifying only that sample used in C analysis (Nieuwenhuize et al., 1994; Pinnegar and Polunin, 2000; Evans-White et al., 2001; Polunin et al., 2001; Bouillon et al., 2002; Cocheret de la Morinière et al., 2003).”
• Biological and physical processes in and around Astoria submarine Canyon, Oregon, USA (2004, background): “stomach content analysis) to study feeding relationships and the relative contributions of different primary producers (Perry et al., 1999; Polunin et al., 2001; Davenport and Bax, 2002).”
• Trophic relationships along a bathymetric gradient at the deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN (2009, background): “Although our knowledge about the feeding ecology of benthic deep-sea species has expanded, few studies have explored the overall structure of deep-sea food webs (Iken et al., 2001; Polunin et al., 2001; Sahling et al., 2003).”
• The deep-sea floor ecosystem: current status and prospects of anthropogenic change by the year 2025 (2003, background): “The purely detrital base of deep-sea food webs contrasts sharply with those of most epipelagic, shallowwater and terrestrial ecosystems, which are sustained largely by locally produced organic matter (Polunin et al. 2001).”