ArticleOecologia2020
Are you really what you eat? Stomach content analysis and stable isotope ratios do not uniformly estimate dietary niche characteristics in three marine predators.
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- Disentangling the Effects of Biotic and Abiotic Dimensions of Ecological Opportunity on Individual Trophic Trait Variation.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Summarising 40 years of gastric lavage studies to evaluate efficiency and survival in sharks and rays.Journal of fish biology · 2025Review
- Habitat engineering by an apex predator generates spatial trophic dynamics across a temporal environmental stress gradient.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
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- Changes in the feeding ecology of an opportunistic predator inhabiting urban environments in response to COVID-19 lockdown.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Integrating isotopic and nutritional niches reveals multiple dimensions of individual diet specialisation in a marine apex predator.The Journal of animal ecology · 2023Article
- DNA metabarcoding suggests adaptive seasonal variation of individual trophic traits in a critically endangered fish.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- Trophic structure of a nektobenthic community exploited by a multispecific bottom trawling fishery in Northeastern Brazil.PloS one · 2021Article
- A trophic latitudinal gradient revealed in anchovy and sardine from the Western Mediterranean Sea using a multi-proxy approach.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Separation of realized ecological niche axes among sympatric tilefishes provides insight into potential drivers of co-occurrence in the NW Atlantic.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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- Diet type influences the gut microbiome and nutrient assimilation of Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus).PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
Calculation of dietary niche characteristics using stable isotopes has become a popular approach to understand the functional role of taxa across food webs. An underlying assumption of this approach is that stable isotopes accurately reflect the dietary breadth of a species over a temporal duration defined by tissue-specific isotopic turnover rates. In theory, dietary niche estimates derived from fast turnover rate tissues (e.g., blood plasma and liver) may augment stomach content-derived estimates more agreeably than slower turnover rate tissues (e.g., muscle or fin). We tested this hypothesis by comparing commonly used dietary niche estimates derived from stomach contents (niche
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