Trophic interaction data and taxonomic information for fish predators and their prey spanning the North East Atlantic and its marginal seas between 1836-2013
Summary
Taxonomic information and the diet matrix for fish species-size-classes (rows) and their prey (columns) used to produce feeding guilds via cluster analysis for Thompson et al. (2020) ‘A feeding guild indicator to assess environmental change impacts on marine ecosystem structure and functioning’. Journal of Applied Ecology. The purpose of this study was to propose a food web indicator which has been explicitly called for to inform policy via food web status assessment as part of the European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the indicator toolkit supporting The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (the ‘OSPAR Convention').
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Use limitation statement
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Licence
Open Government LicenceAttribution statement
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Technical information
Update frequency
notPlanned
Lineage
We use fish stomach contents data from DAPSTOM ( `https://www.cefas.co.uk/data-and-publications/fish-stomach-records/`_) and ICES Year of the Stomach ( `https://www.ices.dk/marine-data/data-portals/Pages/Fish-stomach.aspx`_). DAPSTOM is an ongoing initiative digitizing fish stomach records. The database contains information collected between 1836-2013 on 187 predator species (most occurring in northern European groundfish surveys). ICES Year of The Stomach Dataset contains records from 35 fish species between 1980-1991 sampled in the North Sea. Both datasets have information on predator-prey interactions for given sea areas and years. The new trophic interaction dataset presents binary information of interactions detected from across the North East Atlantic and its marginal seas, from 415,294 fish stomachs. .. _`https://www.cefas.co.uk/data-and-publications/fish-stomach-records/`: https://www.cefas.co.uk/data-and-publications/fish-stomach-records/ .. _`https://www.ices.dk/marine-data/data-portals/pages/fish-stomach.aspx`: https://www.ices.dk/marine-data/data-portals/Pages/Fish-stomach.aspx
Spatial information
Coordinate reference system
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Geographic extent
- Latitude from: 40 to 80
- Longitude from: -50 to 50
Metadata information
Language
English
Metadata identifier
ab306bc0-2386-4854-9c0c-2c2c50c3ddaa
Published by
Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science
Contact publisher
data.manager@cefas.gov.ukDataset reference dates
Creation date
15 April 2020
Revision date
17 May 2023
Publication date
30 April 2020
Period
- From: 01 January 1836
- To: 31 August 2013
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