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SUBMITTER: Dunn RE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8728395 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dunn Ruth E RE Bradley Darcy D Heithaus Michael R MR Caselle Jennifer E JE Papastamatiou Yannis P YP
iScience 20211216 1
Prey depletion may contribute to marine predator declines, yet the forage base required to sustain an unfished population of predatory fish at carrying capacity is unknown. We integrated demographic and physiological data within a Bayesian bioenergetic model to estimate annual consumption of a gray reef shark (<i>Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos</i>) population at a remote Pacific atoll (Palmyra Atoll) that are at carrying capacity. Furthermore, we estimated the proportion of the atoll's reef fish bio ...[more]