Feeding Ecology of Coryphaenoides rupestris from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Odd Aksel Bergstad, Guro Gjelsvik, Christoffer Schander et al. · 2010
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Odd Aksel Bergstad and colleagues studied what a deep-sea fish eats along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in PLOS ONE in 2010. The roundnose grenadier is among the most common large fish on that undersea mountain chain. Its feeding on continental slopes was fairly well known. The ridge habitat, far from land, could offer a different menu. The team examined stomach contents and related measures from ridge-caught fish.
Knowing what a dominant fish eats reveals how energy moves through deep ecosystems. The ridge hosts fisheries interest and unique species side by side. Diet data help judge how fishing might ripple through the food web. Deep-sea ecology still rests on few such basic surveys. This one adds a key predator's menu to the record.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Odd Aksel Bergstad, Guro Gjelsvik, Christoffer Schander et al. |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2010 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0010453