Predator and prey body sizes in marine food webs

Barnes, C., Bethea, D. M., Brodeur, R. D., Spitz, J., Ridoux, V., Pusineri, C., Chase, B. C., Hunsicker, M. E., Juanes, F., Kellermann, A., Lancaster, J., Ménard, F., Bard, F.-X., Munk, P., Pinnegar, J. K., Scharf, F. S., Rountree, R. A., Stergiou, K. I., Sassa, C., Sabates, A. and Jennings, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2390-7225 (2008) Predator and prey body sizes in marine food webs. Ecology, 89 (3). p. 881. ISSN 0012-9658

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Abstract

Knowledge of relationships between predator size and prey size are needed to describe interactions of species and size classes in food webs.Most estimates of predator and prey sizes have been based on dietary studies and apply to small numbers of species in a relatively narrow size range. These estimatesmay ormay not be representative of values for other groups of species and body sizes or for other locations.Marine predator and prey size data associated with published literature were identified and collated to produce a single data set. If predator or prey length of mass were not measured in the original study, the length or mass was calculated using length-mass relationships. The data set consists of 34 931 records from 27 locations covering a wide range of environmental conditions from the tropics to the poles and for 93 types of predator with sizes ranging from 0.1mg to over 415 kg and 174 prey types with sizes from 75 pg to over 4.5 kg. Each record includes: predator and prey scientific names, common names, taxa, life stages and sizes (length and mass with conversion details), plus the type of feeding interaction, geographic location (with habitat description, latitude, longitude) and mean annual environmental data (sea surface temperature and primary productivity).

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	ERRATA Volume 89, Issue 6, Ecology, pages: 1775-1775 First Published online: June 1, 2008 DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2008)89[1775a:E]2.0.CO;2
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_below_water
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017)
Depositing User:	Rosie Cullington
Date Deposited:	26 May 2011 14:52
Last Modified:	24 Sep 2024 09:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/31496
DOI:	10.1890/07-1551.1

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