How many trophic roles can elasmobranchs play in a marine tropical network?

AF Navia, PA Mejía-Falla, J López-García… - Marine and …, 2017 - CSIRO Publishing
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 …

First report of plastic contamination in batoids: Plastic ingestion by Haller's Round Ray (Urobatis halleri) in the Gulf of California

I Pinho, F Amezcua, JM Rivera, C Green-Ruiz… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The presence of microplastics has been reported in the marine environment and these
pollutants have also been reported in food webs. Information about the presence of …

Advances in the study of the trophic niche of batoids with distribution in Mexican waters

F Serrano‐Flores, YE Torres‐Rojas… - Marine …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Batoid (rays and skates) populations are declining worldwide, with unknown ecological
consequences due to lacking consolidated data on the trophic ecology of these species …

[HTML][HTML] Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska–Yukon border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

MS Love, JJ Bizzarro, AM Cornthwaite, BW Frable… - Zootaxa, 2021 - biotaxa.org
This paper is a checklist of the fishes that have been documented, through both published
and unpublished sources, in marine and estuarine waters, and out 200 miles, from the …

Diet composition of batoids on the continental shelf off Nayarit and Sinaloa, Mexico

JA Navarro-González, J Bohórquez-Herrera… - Ciencias …, 2012 - scielo.org.mx
Diet composition of batoids on the continental shelf off Nayarit and Sinaloa, Mexico
Composición trófica de batoideos en la pl Page 1 Ciencias Marinas (2012), 38(2): 347–362 …

Comparative trophic ecology of two sympatric guitarfishes Pseudobatos (Chondrichthyes, Rhinobatidae) from Southeast Brazil, southwestern Atlantic

LD Chelotti, OBF Gadig - Journal of Fish Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The present study compares the trophic ecology of two guitarfishes (Pseudobatos percellens
and Pseudobatos horkelii) from the continental shelf of the São Paulo State, Brazil, caught …

First assessment of the diet composition and trophic level of an assemblage of poorly known chondrichthyans off the central coast of Peru

L Silva-Garay, AS Pacheco, X Vélez-Zuazo - Environmental Biology of …, 2018 - Springer
Although chondrichthyans are conspicuously present in shallow waters, many ecological
aspects of neritic species in the Humboldt Current System remain unknown. This study …

The diet of Mustelus schmitti in areas with and without commercial bottom trawling (Central Patagonia, Southwestern Atlantic): Is it evidence of trophic interaction with …

AT Pasti, ND Bovcon, J Ruibal-Núñez, X Navoa… - Food Webs, 2021 - Elsevier
The study compares the diet composition between juveniles and adults of the narrownose
smooth-hound Mustelus schmitti in areas with and without commercial bottom trawling using …

Ecological singularity of temperate mesopredatory myliobatoid rays (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes)

NL Ruocco, LO Lucifora - Marine and Freshwater Research, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
Many myliobatoid rays are important mesopredators, having significant effects on coastal
benthic communities. In tropical and subtropical high-diversity oligotrophic ecosystems, they …

Trophic niche partitioning of five skate species of genus Bathyraja in northern and central Patagonia, Argentina

A Tschopp, F Cristiani, NA García… - Journal of Fish …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Overexploitation of marine communities can lead to modifications in the structure of the food
web and can force organisms like elasmobranchs to change their feeding habits. To …