Compilation of stomach content data for mesopelagic fish and predator species from the central and Northeast Atlantic, and the Mediterranean Sea

• Main Authors: Silva, Mónica A, Bernal, Ainhoa, Olivar, M Pilar, Spitz, Jérome, Carmo, Vanda, Sutton, Tracey T, Menezes, Gui, Falkenhaug, Tone, Bergstad, Odd Aksel, Fonseca, Catarina T, Pérez-Jorge, Sergi
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: Adriatic_Sea_comp; Azores_comp; Azores-Iberian_Peninsula_comp; Azores-Madeira-Galicia_comp; Balearic_Sea_comp; Baltic_Sea_comp; bathypelagic fish; Bay_of_Biscay_comp; Bay_of_Biscay_western_Channel_comp; Bay_of_Malaga_comp; Bear_Island_comp; Canary_Islands_comp; Cariaco_Trench_Caribbean_Sea_comp; Catalonian_Sea_comp; Charlie-Gibbs_Fracture_comp; Class; Coast_of_Finmark_comp; Coast_of_Kola_comp; Comment; Danois_Bank_Cantabria_Bay_Biscay_comp; Denmark_comp; DEPTH; water; diet composition; elasmobranchs; England_western_channel_comp; Event label; Family; Faraday_Seamount_comp; Faroe_Islands_comp; Faroe_Shetland_Islands_comp; France_comp; Galicia_comp; Gear; Greece_comp; Gulf_of_Cadiz_comp; Gulf_of_Lions_comp; Hyeres_archipelago_comp; Iceland_comp; Ionian_Sea_comp; Ireland_comp; large pelagic fish; LATITUDE; Levantine_Sea_comp; Location; Lofoten_Vesteralen_comp; LONGITUDE; Madeira_comp; marine mammals; marine turtles; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.946139; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.946139

Stomach contents analysis is a standard dietary assessment method that potentially enables quantifying diet components with high taxonomic resolution. We compiled diet compositions from stomach content analysis from 75 unique species or genera: 32 fish, 19 marine mammals, 14 elasmobranchs, 9 seabird...