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Forced into an ecological corner: Round-the-clock deep foraging on small prey by elephant seals

Small mesopelagic fishes dominate the world’s total fish biomass, yet their ecological importance as prey for large marine animals is poorly understood. To reveal the little-known ecosystem dynamics, we identified prey, measured feeding events, and quantified the daily energy balance of 48 deep-divi...

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Autores principales: Adachi, Taiki, Takahashi, Akinori, Costa, Daniel P., Robinson, Patrick W., Hückstädt, Luis A., Peterson, Sarah H., Holser, Rachel R., Beltran, Roxanne S., Keates, Theresa R., Naito, Yasuhiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8115928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33980496
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg3628