ICES Journal of Marine Science, 63: 1075e1085 (2006)

ow nloaded from pomfret (Brama brama), and the squid Todarodes sagittatus, Ommastrephes bartramii, and Gonatus steenstrupi, dominated the diet by mass. The overall prey size range was 11e1420 mm, but sizes of 60e360 mm accounted for 80 % of the distribution by number and of 140e760 mm for 80 % of th...

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Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2004
Subjects:
Bay of Biscay
diet
feeding ecology
Northeast Atlantic
swordfish
Xiphias gladius
Brama
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.535.6018
http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/content/63/6/1075.full.pdf
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Summary:ow nloaded from pomfret (Brama brama), and the squid Todarodes sagittatus, Ommastrephes bartramii, and Gonatus steenstrupi, dominated the diet by mass. The overall prey size range was 11e1420 mm, but sizes of 60e360 mm accounted for 80 % of the distribution by number and of 140e760 mm for 80 % of the distribution by mass. Intraspecifically, larger swordfish ate larger prey as a result of a change in species composition of the diet. The swordfish ap-pears to show feeding plasticity both between different areas and between animals in the same area.

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