RESEARCH ARTICLE
Predicting Weight Composition of Fish Diet s: Converting Frequency of Occurrence of Prey to Relative Weight Composition
K. A. Stobberup*, 1, T. Morato2, P. Amorim2, K. Erzini3
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2009Volume: 2
First Page: 42
Last Page: 49
Publisher Id: TOFISHSJ-2-42
DOI: 10.2174/1874401X00902010042
Article History:
Received Date: 28/02/2008Revision Received Date: 23/02/2009
Acceptance Date: 24/02/2009
Electronic publication date: 10/4/2009
Collection year: 2009
© 2009 A. Stobberup et al.
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open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Diet compositions expressed in weight are essential to determine the trophic relationships in energetic terms between the compartments within a system. Data from stomachs were compiled from a number of sources (62102 stomachs), covering four broad areas such as the Northwest Atlantic, South Africa, Senegal and the Azores Islands in order to explore the empirical relationships between the frequency of occurrence, which is of limited use in a modelling context, and the preferred index, relative weight composition. These empirical relationships were found to be highly significant.
Keywords: Fish diets, relative weight composition, frequency of occurrence.
