A global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks

Christopher S Bird^{1

2}, Ana Veríssimo^{3

4}, Sarah Magozzi⁵, Kátya G Abrantes⁶, Alex Aguilar⁷, Hassan Al-Reasi⁸, Adam Barnett⁶, Dana M Bethea^{9

10}, Gérard Biais¹¹, Asuncion Borrell⁷, Marc Bouchoucha¹², Mariah Boyle¹³, Edward J Brooks¹⁴, Juerg Brunnschweiler¹⁵, Paco Bustamante¹⁶, Aaron Carlisle¹⁷, Diana Catarino¹⁸, Stéphane Caut¹⁹, Yves Cherel²⁰, Tiphaine Chouvelon²¹, Diana Churchill²², Javier Ciancio²³, Julien Claes²⁴, Ana Colaço¹⁸, Dean L Courtney^{25

26}, Pierre Cresson²⁷, Ryan Daly^{28

29}, Leigh de Necker³⁰, Tetsuya Endo³¹, Ivone Figueiredo³², Ashley J Frisch³³, Joan Holst Hansen³⁴, Michael Heithaus³⁵, Nigel E Hussey³⁶, Johannes Iitembu³⁷, Francis Juanes³⁸, Michael J Kinney³⁹, Jeremy J Kiszka⁴⁰, Sebastian A Klarian⁴¹, Dorothée Kopp⁴², Robert Leaf⁴³, Yunkai Li⁴⁴, Anne Lorrain⁴⁵, Daniel J Madigan⁴⁶, Aleksandra Maljković⁴⁷, Luis Malpica-Cruz⁴⁸, Philip Matich^{49

50}, Mark G Meekan⁵¹, Frédéric Ménard⁵², Gui M Menezes¹⁸, Samantha E M Munroe⁵³, Michael C Newman⁵⁴, Yannis P Papastamatiou^{55

56}, Heidi Pethybridge⁵⁷, Jeffrey D Plumlee^{58

59}, Carlos Polo-Silva⁶⁰, Katie Quaeck-Davies⁵, Vincent Raoult⁶¹, Jonathan Reum⁶², Yassir Eden Torres-Rojas⁶³, David S Shiffman⁶⁴, Oliver N Shipley⁶⁵, Conrad W Speed⁵¹, Michelle D Staudinger^{66

67}, Amy K Teffer³⁸, Alexander Tilley⁶⁸, Maria Valls⁶⁹, Jeremy J Vaudo⁷⁰, Tak-Cheung Wai⁷¹, R J David Wells^{58

59}, Alex S J Wyatt⁷², Andrew Yool⁷³, Clive N Trueman⁷⁴

Affiliations

¹ Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK. chrisbirdshark@gmail.com.
² Centre for Environment, Fisheries, & Aquaculture Sciences (CEFAS), Lowestoft, UK. chrisbirdshark@gmail.com.
³ CIBIO-Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal.
⁴ Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, USA.
⁵ Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.
⁶ College of Science & Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
⁷ IRBio, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁸ Department of Biology, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, Muscat, Oman.
⁹ NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, 3500 Delwood Beach Road, Panama City, FL, USA.
¹⁰ NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Regional Office, St. Petersburg, FL, USA.
¹¹ Ifremer, Unité Halieutique Gascogne Sud, Laboratoire Ressources Halieutiques de La Rochelle, L'Houmeau, France.
¹² Ifremer, Unité Littoral, Laboratoire Environnement Ressources Provence Azur Corse, La Seyne sur Mer, France.
¹³ FishWise, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
¹⁴ Shark Research and Conservation Program, Cape Eleuthera Institute, Eleuthera, Bahamas.
¹⁵ , Gladbachstrasse 60, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁶ Littoral Environnement et Sociétés (LIENSs), UMR 7266, CNRS-Université de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France.
¹⁷ Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, USA.
¹⁸ MARE-Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores, Azores, Portugal.
¹⁹ Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigationes Científicas (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain.
²⁰ Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, UMR 7372, CNRS-Université de La Rochelle, Villiers-en-Bois, France.
²¹ Unité Biogéochimie et Écotoxicologie, Laboratoire de Biogéochimie des Contaminants Métalliques, Nantes, France.
²² Marine Sciences Program, School of Environment, Arts and Society, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, USA.
²³ CESIMAR Centro Nacional Patagónico, CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina.
²⁴ Laboratoire de Biologie Marine, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
²⁵ College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Juneau Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Point Lena Loop Road, Juneau, AK, USA.
²⁶ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Panama City Laboratory, Delwood Beach Road, Panama City, FL, USA.
²⁷ Ifremer, Unité Halieutique Manche Mer du Nord, Laboratoire Ressources Halieutiques de Boulogne, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
²⁸ Port Elizabeth Museum at Bayworld, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
²⁹ Save Our Seas Foundation-D'Arros Research Centre (SOSF-DRC), Geneva, Switzerland.
³⁰ University of Cape Town, Department of Biological Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa.
³¹ School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan.
³² Departamento do Mar IPMA, Lisbon, Portugal.
³³ Reef HQ, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
³⁴ Aquatic Biology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark.
³⁵ School of Environment, Arts, and Society, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, USA.
³⁶ Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada.
³⁷ Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Namibia, Henties Bay, Namibia.
³⁸ Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
³⁹ Ocean Associates, Inc., Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, La Jolla, CA, USA.
⁴⁰ Marine Sciences Program, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, USA.
⁴¹ Centro de Investigacion para la Sustentabilidad, Facultad de Ecologia y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile.
⁴² Ifremer, Unité Sciences et Techniques Halieutiques, Laboratoire de Technologie et Biologie Halieutique, Lorient, France.
⁴³ Division of Coastal Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs, MS, USA.
⁴⁴ College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
⁴⁵ Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), R 195 LEMAR, UMR 6539 (UBO, CNRS, IRD, IFREMER), Nouméa, New Caledonia.
⁴⁶ Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁴⁷ Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴⁸ Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴⁹ Marine Sciences Program, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, USA.
⁵⁰ Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA.
⁵¹ Australian Institute of Marine Science, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
⁵² Mediterranean Istitute of Oceanography (MIO), Aix Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, 13288 Marseille, France.
⁵³ Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia.
⁵⁴ Department of Environmental and Aquatic Animal Health, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, Gloucester Point, VA, USA.
⁵⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, USA.
⁵⁶ Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK.
⁵⁷ CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
⁵⁸ Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA.
⁵⁹ Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
⁶⁰ Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Ingeniería, Programa de Biología, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano Marina, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁶¹ Department of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
⁶² Conservation Biology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁶³ Instituto de Ecología, Pesquerías y Oceanografía del Golfo de México (EPOMEX), Universidad Autónoma de Campeche (UAC), Campeche, Campeche, Mexico.
⁶⁴ Earth to Oceans Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶⁵ School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
⁶⁶ Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.
⁶⁷ Department of the Interior Northeast Climate Science Center, Amherst, MA, USA.
⁶⁸ WorldFish Timor-Leste, Dili, Timor-Leste.
⁶⁹ Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centre Oceanogràfic de les Balears, Palma, Spain.
⁷⁰ The Guy Harvey Research Institute, Nova Southeastern University, Dania Beach, FL, USA.
⁷¹ State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
⁷² Department of Chemical Oceanography, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan.
⁷³ National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Southampton, UK.
⁷⁴ Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK. trueman@noc.soton.ac.uk.

PMID: 29348645
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0432-z

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A global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks

Christopher S Bird et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2018 Feb.

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. 2018 Feb;2(2):299-305.

doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0432-z. Epub 2018 Jan 18.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK. chrisbirdshark@gmail.com.
² Centre for Environment, Fisheries, & Aquaculture Sciences (CEFAS), Lowestoft, UK. chrisbirdshark@gmail.com.
³ CIBIO-Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal.
⁴ Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, USA.
⁵ Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.
⁶ College of Science & Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
⁷ IRBio, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁸ Department of Biology, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, Muscat, Oman.
⁹ NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, 3500 Delwood Beach Road, Panama City, FL, USA.
¹⁰ NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Regional Office, St. Petersburg, FL, USA.
¹¹ Ifremer, Unité Halieutique Gascogne Sud, Laboratoire Ressources Halieutiques de La Rochelle, L'Houmeau, France.
¹² Ifremer, Unité Littoral, Laboratoire Environnement Ressources Provence Azur Corse, La Seyne sur Mer, France.
¹³ FishWise, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
¹⁴ Shark Research and Conservation Program, Cape Eleuthera Institute, Eleuthera, Bahamas.
¹⁵ , Gladbachstrasse 60, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁶ Littoral Environnement et Sociétés (LIENSs), UMR 7266, CNRS-Université de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France.
¹⁷ Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, USA.
¹⁸ MARE-Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores, Azores, Portugal.
¹⁹ Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigationes Científicas (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain.
²⁰ Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, UMR 7372, CNRS-Université de La Rochelle, Villiers-en-Bois, France.
²¹ Unité Biogéochimie et Écotoxicologie, Laboratoire de Biogéochimie des Contaminants Métalliques, Nantes, France.
²² Marine Sciences Program, School of Environment, Arts and Society, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, USA.
²³ CESIMAR Centro Nacional Patagónico, CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina.
²⁴ Laboratoire de Biologie Marine, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
²⁵ College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Juneau Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Point Lena Loop Road, Juneau, AK, USA.
²⁶ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Panama City Laboratory, Delwood Beach Road, Panama City, FL, USA.
²⁷ Ifremer, Unité Halieutique Manche Mer du Nord, Laboratoire Ressources Halieutiques de Boulogne, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
²⁸ Port Elizabeth Museum at Bayworld, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
²⁹ Save Our Seas Foundation-D'Arros Research Centre (SOSF-DRC), Geneva, Switzerland.
³⁰ University of Cape Town, Department of Biological Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa.
³¹ School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan.
³² Departamento do Mar IPMA, Lisbon, Portugal.
³³ Reef HQ, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
³⁴ Aquatic Biology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark.
³⁵ School of Environment, Arts, and Society, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, USA.
³⁶ Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada.
³⁷ Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Namibia, Henties Bay, Namibia.
³⁸ Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
³⁹ Ocean Associates, Inc., Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, La Jolla, CA, USA.
⁴⁰ Marine Sciences Program, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, USA.
⁴¹ Centro de Investigacion para la Sustentabilidad, Facultad de Ecologia y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile.
⁴² Ifremer, Unité Sciences et Techniques Halieutiques, Laboratoire de Technologie et Biologie Halieutique, Lorient, France.
⁴³ Division of Coastal Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs, MS, USA.
⁴⁴ College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
⁴⁵ Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), R 195 LEMAR, UMR 6539 (UBO, CNRS, IRD, IFREMER), Nouméa, New Caledonia.
⁴⁶ Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁴⁷ Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴⁸ Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴⁹ Marine Sciences Program, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, USA.
⁵⁰ Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA.
⁵¹ Australian Institute of Marine Science, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
⁵² Mediterranean Istitute of Oceanography (MIO), Aix Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, 13288 Marseille, France.
⁵³ Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia.
⁵⁴ Department of Environmental and Aquatic Animal Health, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, Gloucester Point, VA, USA.
⁵⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, USA.
⁵⁶ Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK.
⁵⁷ CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
⁵⁸ Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA.
⁵⁹ Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
⁶⁰ Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Ingeniería, Programa de Biología, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano Marina, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁶¹ Department of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
⁶² Conservation Biology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁶³ Instituto de Ecología, Pesquerías y Oceanografía del Golfo de México (EPOMEX), Universidad Autónoma de Campeche (UAC), Campeche, Campeche, Mexico.
⁶⁴ Earth to Oceans Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶⁵ School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
⁶⁶ Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.
⁶⁷ Department of the Interior Northeast Climate Science Center, Amherst, MA, USA.
⁶⁸ WorldFish Timor-Leste, Dili, Timor-Leste.
⁶⁹ Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centre Oceanogràfic de les Balears, Palma, Spain.
⁷⁰ The Guy Harvey Research Institute, Nova Southeastern University, Dania Beach, FL, USA.
⁷¹ State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
⁷² Department of Chemical Oceanography, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan.
⁷³ National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Southampton, UK.
⁷⁴ Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK. trueman@noc.soton.ac.uk.

PMID: 29348645
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0432-z

Abstract

Sharks are a diverse group of mobile predators that forage across varied spatial scales and have the potential to influence food web dynamics. The ecological consequences of recent declines in shark biomass may extend across broader geographic ranges if shark taxa display common behavioural traits. By tracking the original site of photosynthetic fixation of carbon atoms that were ultimately assimilated into muscle tissues of 5,394 sharks from 114 species, we identify globally consistent biogeographic traits in trophic interactions between sharks found in different habitats. We show that populations of shelf-dwelling sharks derive a substantial proportion of their carbon from regional pelagic sources, but contain individuals that forage within additional isotopically diverse local food webs, such as those supported by terrestrial plant sources, benthic production and macrophytes. In contrast, oceanic sharks seem to use carbon derived from between 30° and 50° of latitude. Global-scale compilations of stable isotope data combined with biogeochemical modelling generate hypotheses regarding animal behaviours that can be tested with other methodological approaches.

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