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| Mille, Tiphaine; Mahe, Kelig; Cachera, Marie; Villanueva, Ching-maria; De Pontual, Helene; Ernande, Bruno. |
| Previous studies have shown that food amount influence fish otolith structure, opacity and shape and that diet composition has an effect on otolith chemical composition. This study investigated the potential correlation between diet and otolith shape in 5 wild marine fish species by addressing 4 complementary questions. First, is there a global relationship between diet and otolith shape? Second, which prey categories are involved in this relationship? Third, what are the respective contributions of food quantity and relative composition to diet–otolith shape co-variation? Fourth, is diet energetic composition related to otolith shape? For each species, we investigated how otolith shape varies with diet. These questions were tackled by describing diet in... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Fourier analysis; English Channel; Interspecific; Morphometric analysis; Otolith growth; Saccular otolith; Stomach contents. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00345/45639/45269.pdf |
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