Quantifying the predation on sardine and hake by cetaceans in the Atlantic waters of the Iberian Peninsula

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Begoña Santos, M., Saavedra, Camilo, Pierce, Graham J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2014
• Subjects: Common dolphin; Hake; Natural mortality; Sardine; Uncertainty; Phocoena phocoena
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/18772; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.09.040

Construction of ecosystem models requires detailed information on trophic interactions which may not be readily available, especially for top predators such as cetaceans. Such information can also be useful to estimate natural mortality (M) for fish stock assessments and to evaluate the potential fo...