Role of scavengers in marine ecosystems: Introduction

N. J. King; D. M. Bailey; I. G. Priede

doi:10.3354/meps07186

Role of scavengers in marine ecosystems: Introduction

N. J. King^* (Corresponding Author)
, D. M. Bailey
, I. G. Priede

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Aberdeen Centre For Environmental Sustainability

University of Glasgow

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Abstract

Although organisms from all phyla and all marine habitats consume dead carrion, trophic transfer of scavenged material, and processes associated with this transfer, are poorly understood (Britton & Morton 1994). The death of mobile consumers (such as fish and whales) leads to nutrient and energy transfer across ecosystem boundaries (Payne & Moore 2006) and substantial carrion subsidies can increase secondary productivity (Baxter et al. 2004, Catchpole et al. 2006, Payne & Moore 2006). Therefore, understanding the utilisation of dead biomass by scavengers will provide insights into the trophic transfer of nutrients and pollutants, and into carbon cycling, distribution and sequestration in the oceans.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	175-178
Number of pages	4
Journal	Marine Ecology Progress Series
Volume	350
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07186
Publication status	Published - 22 Nov 2007

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgements. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their time and participation, Martin Solan for the initial suggestion and the authors for their hard work and timely submission of their manuscripts. N.J.K. is supported by the Natural Environment Research Council grant NE/C512961/1. D.M.B. was supported by a Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship grant MCOIF-CT-2004-509286 during most of the TS preparation, which also covered the costs for Open Access.

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SDG 14 Life Below Water

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North-Sea
discards
camera
food

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