The role of Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) in an Arctic ecosystem: Assessed via stable isotopes and fatty acids

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: McMeans, Bailey C., Arts, Michael T., Lydersen, Christian, Kovacs, Kit M., Hop, Haakon, Falk-Petersen, Stig, Fisk, Aaron T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Canada; Greenland; Norway; Cumberland Sound; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; North Atlantic; Phytoplankton; Somniosus microcephalus
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/378; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-013-2174-z

The Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) is the only shark species known to inhabit ice-covered seas in the North Atlantic, but remains a missing component in most studies of Arctic food webs. In the present study, stable isotopes (SIs) of nitrogen (δ15N) and carbon (δ13C) and fatty acids (FAs)...