Juvenile Striped Bass consume diverse prey in Chesapeake Bay tributaries

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• Journal Title:
  Marine and Coastal Fisheries
• Personal Author:
  Pagenkopp Lohan, Katrina M. ; Aguilar, Robert ; DiMaria, Ruth ; Heggie, Keira ; Tuckey, Troy D. ; Fabrizio, Mary C. ; Ogburn, Matthew B.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service)
• Description:
  Anadromous Striped Bass Morone saxatilis are dominant predators in estuaries and coastal areas along the U.S. Atlantic coast, with the potential to exert top‐down control on prey populations. Although Striped Bass diets have been studied previously, spatiotemporal patterns of diet across ontogeny remain poorly understood, especially for young fish in shallow nursery habitats.MethodsWe collected and examined gut contents from adult, juvenile, and young‐of‐year (age‐0) Striped Bass from nine rivers across the Maryland and Virginia portions of Chesapeake Bay during summer and fall 2018. We compared the use of traditional morphological inspection and new amplicon‐based next‐generation sequencing methods for identifying gut contents.
• Keywords:
  Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior And Systematics Ecology, Evolution, Behavior And Systematics Ecology, Evolution, Behavior And Systematics
• Source:
  Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 15(5)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10259
• ISSN:
  1942-5120 ; 1942-5120
• Publisher:
  Wiley
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA17NMF4570157
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC BY
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4de28df5531e6df51bd6f186da7ad83333e3f8d260c947f7cc8a367b2dd184ff
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/58294/noaa_58294_DS1.pdf
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