Diet consistency but large-scale isotopic variations in a deep-sea shark: The case of the velvet belly lantern shark, Etmopterus spinax, in the northeastern Atlantic region and Mediterranean Sea

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
• Main Authors: Besnard, Lucien, Duchatelet, Laurent, Bird, Christopher S., Le Croizier, Gaël, Michel, Loic, Pinte, Nicolas, Lepoint, Gilles, Schaal, Gauthier, Vieira, Rui P., Gonçalves, Jorge M.s., Martin, Ulrich, Mallefet, Jérôme
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV 2022
• Subjects: Trophic ecology; Stable isotopes; Stomach content; Mesopredator; Food webs; Benthopelagic predator; Rockall Trough; Meganyctiphanes norvegica
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00750/86170/91411.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103708; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00750/86170/

Deep-sea elasmobranchs are commonly reported as bycatch of deep-sea fisheries and their subsequent loss has been highlighted as a long-running concern to the ecosystem ecological functioning. To understand the possible consequences of their removal, information on basic ecological traits, such as di...