Distribution of short-finned squid Illex argentinus (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae) inferred from the diets of Southern Ocean albatrosses using stable isotope analyses

• Published in: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
• Main Authors: Seco, José, Daneri, Gustavo Adolfo, Ceia, Filipe R., Vieira, Rui Pedro, Hill, Simeon L., Xavier, José Carlos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press
• Subjects: CEPHALOPODS; ALBATROSSES; ILLEX; SOUTHERN OCEAN; Otras Ciencias Biológicas; Ciencias Biológicas; CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Argentino; Argentina; Bird Island; Gustavo; Antarc*; antarcticus; Diomedea exulans
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/48460

The diets of marine predators are a potential source of information about range shifts in their prey. For example, the short-finned squid Illex argentinus, a commercially fished species on the Patagonian Shelf in the South Atlantic, has been reported in the diet of grey-headed, Thalassarche chrysost...