Sunday, 6 January 2013

Bering Sea study finds prey density more important to predators than biomass

Corvallis OR (SPX) Jan 07, 2013



Marine resource managers often gauge the health of species based on overall biomass, but a new study of predator-prey relationships in the Bering Sea found that it isn't the total number of individuals that predators care about - it's how densely they are aggregated. It's more than searching for an easy meal, the researchers say. Predators need to balance how much energy they expend...