Dietary overlap in inshore notothenioid fish from the Danco Coast, western Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Ricardo Casaux, Esteban Barrera-Oro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2013
• Subjects: Fish dietary overlap; notothenioid fish; Antarctic Peninsula; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Antarctic; The Antarctic; South Shetland Islands; South Orkney Islands; Danco; Danco Coast; Antarc*; Euphausia superba; Notothenia rossii; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v32i0.21319; https://doaj.org/article/b7d6da4058a442e78707e318d6b4ee60

We carried out a dietary overlap analysis between notothenioid species by examining the stomach contents of more than 900 specimens collected in a fish assemblage at the Danco Coast, western Antarctic Peninsula, in the summer of 2000. Prey reoccurrences among fish species were 32.2%, with krill Euph...