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FAO species catalogue. v.3: Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries.

Roper C.F.E., +2 more
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The article was published on 1984-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 624 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Catalogue of Life.

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Diet composition and trophic levels of marine mammals

Daniel Pauly, +3 more
- 01 Jun 1998 - 
TL;DR: Standardized diet compositions were derived for 97 species of marine mammals from published accounts of stomach contents as well as from morphological, behavioural and other information to derive trophic levels, which can be used for ecosystem modelling and related studies.
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Cephalopods: Ecology and Fisheries

Peter Boyle, +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter discusses cephalopods as Predators, Nautilus, and their role in the Biodiversity and Zoogeography of Oceanic and Deep-Sea Species.
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Dietary specialization in two sympatric populations of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in coastal British Columbia and adjacent waters

John K. B. Ford, +5 more
- 01 Aug 1998 - 
TL;DR: The existence of strikingly divergent prey preferences of resident and transient killer whales is revealed, which are reflected in distinctive foraging strategies and related sociobiological traits of these sympatric populations.
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Oceanographic and biological effects of shoaling of the oxygen minimum zone.

William F. Gilly, +3 more
- 02 Jan 2013 - 
TL;DR: Olympic oxygen minimum zones have expanded over the past 50 years, and this expansion is predicted to continue as the climate warms worldwide, and shoaling of the upper boundaries of the OMZs accompanies OMZ expansion.
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Cheetahs of the deep sea: deep foraging sprints in short-finned pilot whales off Tenerife (Canary Islands)

Natacha Aguilar de Soto, +7 more
- 01 Sep 2008 - 
TL;DR: This energetic foraging tactic focused on a single or few prey items has not been observed previously in deep-diving mammals but resembles the high-risk/high-gain strategy of some terrestrial hunters such as cheetahs.