Trophic shift in the diet of the pelagic thresher shark based on stomach contents and stable isotope analyses

Agriculture & Biology

• Alopiidae 100%
• stable isotopes 58%
• stomach 46%
• isotopes 43%
• vertebrae 33%
• sharks 32%
• predators 31%
• diet 29%
• Benthosema 27%
• Alopias 25%
• foraging 22%
• Dosidicus gigas 21%
• ecology 20%
• muscles 18%
• prey species 15%
• ecosystems 10%
• carbon 9%
• gender 8%
• nitrogen 8%
• tissues 6%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• stomach content 71%
• shark 62%
• diet 49%
• stable isotope 47%
• predator 24%
• isotope 20%
• muscle 16%
• sex-related difference 16%
• trophic ecology 13%
• individual variation 11%
• nitrogen isotope 10%
• water 8%
• ecology 7%
• tissue 6%
• ecosystem 5%
• carbon 5%
• analysis 2%