Diet of whale sharks Rhincodon typus inferred from stomach content and signature fatty acid analyses

CA Rohner, LIE Couturier, AJ Richardson… - Marine Ecology …, 2013 - int-res.com
Whale sharks Rhincodon typus are large filter-feeders that are frequently observed feeding
in surface zooplankton patches at their tropical and subtropical coastal aggregation sites …

Intraspecific variability in diet and implied foraging ranges of whale sharks at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, from signature fatty acid analysis

L Marcus, P Virtue, HR Pethybridge… - Marine Ecology …, 2016 - int-res.com
We examined the feeding ecology of whale sharks by analyzing the signature fatty acids of
their sub-dermal tissue and those of an extensive set of potential prey collected at Ningaloo …

Diet of demersal sharks and chimaeras inferred by fatty acid profiles and stomach content analysis

H Pethybridge, RK Daley, PD Nichols - Journal of Experimental Marine …, 2011 - Elsevier
Obtaining adequate dietary information for many shark and chimaera species has long been
a challenge for ecosystem managers, largely due to logistical difficulties in the collection of …

New insights into whale shark Rhincodon typus diet in Brazil: an observation of ram filter-feeding on crab larvae and analysis of stomach contents from the first …

CLS Sampaio, L Leite, JA Reis-Filho, M Loiola… - … Biology of Fishes, 2018 - Springer
We describe the first record of a whale shark, Rhincodon typus, feeding in Brazilian coastal
waters, and the first stranding record in the state of Bahia, Northeast Brazil. In April 2008, an …

Diet composition and trophic ecology of Northeast Pacific Ocean sharks

JJ Bizzarro, AB Carlisle, WD Smith, E Cortés - Advances in marine biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Although there is a general perception of sharks as large pelagic, apex predators, most
sharks are smaller, meso-and upper-trophic level predators that are associated with the …

Diet of three shark species in the Ecuadorian Pacific, Carcharhinus falciformis, Carcharhinus limbatus and Nasolamia velox

C Estupiñán-Montaño, F Pacheco-Triviño… - Journal of the Marine …, 2018 - cambridge.org
We analysed the stomach contents of 69 silky sharks Carcharhinus falciformis, 44 blacktip
sharks Carcharhinus limbatus and 24 whitenose sharks Nasolamia velox caught in the …

Similarity between predator and prey fatty acid profiles is tissue dependent in Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus): Implications for diet reconstruction

BC McMeans, MT Arts, AT Fisk - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology …, 2012 - Elsevier
Fatty acid (FA) analysis is increasingly being applied to study the feeding ecology of sharks.
However, very little knowledge exists regarding how sharks alter dietary FAs prior to …

Feeding patterns of two sympatric shark predators in coastal ecosystems of an oceanic island

C Trystram, KM Rogers, M Soria… - Canadian Journal of …, 2017 - cdnsciencepub.com
Stomach contents and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses (δ13C and δ15N) were
used to investigate the trophic ecology of two apex predators, tiger sharks (Galeocerdo …

Experimental evaluation of fatty acid profiles as a technique to determine dietary composition in benthic elasmobranchs

CL Beckmann, JG Mitchell, L Seuront… - Physiological and …, 2013 - journals.uchicago.edu
Fatty acid (FA) analysis is a tool for dietary investigation that complements traditional
stomach content analyses. Controlled feeding experiments were used to determine the …

Feeding ecology of three coastal shark species in the northwest Gulf of Mexico

JD Plumlee, RJD Wells - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2016 - int-res.com
The feeding ecology of 3 coastal shark species—Atlantic sharpnose Rhizoprionodon
terraenovae, bonnethead Sphyrna tiburo, and blacktip Carcharhinus limbatus shark—was …