Abstract The California Current Trophic Database (CCTD) was developed at NOAA
Southwest Fisheries Science Center in collaboration with numerous diet data contributors …

Incidental catch of nontarget species (bycatch) is a major barrier to ecological and economic
sustainability in marine capture fisheries. Key to mitigating bycatch is an understanding of …

Species distribution models (SDMs) have become key tools for describing and predicting
species habitats. In the marine domain, environmental data used in modeling species …

Eastern boundary currents are often described as 'wasp-waist'ecosystems in which one or
few mid-level forage species support a high diversity of larger predators that are highly …

Simple Summary The blackmouth catshark has a habitat range that spans from the
Norwegian seas to Senegal and throughout the Mediterranean Sea, and it is one of the most …

The aims of the present study were to identify the trophic roles of shark and batoid species in
a tropical marine food web and to examine how ontogenetic dietary changes affect these …

Organic contaminant and total mercury concentrations were compared in four species of
lamniform sharks over several age classes to examine bioaccumulation patterns and gain …

Establishing diets and dietary generalism in marine top predators is critical for
understanding their ecological roles and responses to environmental fluctuations. Nutrition …

The decline of shark populations in the world ocean is affecting ecosystem structure and
function in an unpredictable way and new ecological information is today needed to better …

Although shortfin mako sharks Isurus oxyrinchus are regularly encountered in pelagic
fisheries, limited information is available on their vertical distribution and is primarily …