Publication Date:
2024-07-07
Description:
Fatty acid (FA) composition has increasingly been used to estimate the dietary preference of marine organisms. Specific fatty acids and fatty acid ratios serve as trophic markers (FATM) and have the potential to provide insights on the long-term dietary preference of organisms. FATM have been applied for this purpose on various zooplankton, fish and up to whales. We aim to build up a database of new and published data on fatty acid content of mesopelagic fish and their predators from the central and Northeast Atlantic, and the Mediterranean Sea, to use in FATM food web studies, investigating the importance of mesopelagic organisms as predators and prey in the marine ecosystem. Here we compiled FA content (i.e., the proportion of each FA measured in sampled tissues or in the whole body of organisms in relation to total FAs analysed) of 36 fish species or genera, 15 seabirds, five marine mammals, two cephalopods, one turtle, one jelly fish, and one shark. For each record, we included all FAs with values above 0.1% of total FAs and report the percentage values as provided in the original data source. Each data record is associated with information on the sampling location, geographic coordinates, month and year of sample collection, method of sample collection, taxonomic ranks (phylum, class, order, family), number and size (or size range) of sampled organisms, as well as the reference and DOI of the original data source, for further details on the samples analysed and/or the analytical techniques used.
Keywords:
(9Z)-heptadec-9-enoic acid; (9Z)-heptadec-9-enoic acid, standard deviation; 12,15 Octadecadienoic acid of total fatty acids; 3,6,9,12 Hexadecatetraenoic acid of total fatty acids; 4,7,10,13,16-Docosapentaenoic acid; 6,9,12,15-Hexadecatetraenoic acid of total fatty acids; 6,9,12-Hexadecatrienoic acid of total fatty acids; 9,12-Hexadecadienoic acid of total fatty acids; 9-Tetradecenoic acid of total fatty acids; 9-Tetradecenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; Adriatic_Sea_comp; all-cis-11,14,17-Eicosatrienoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-11,14,17-Eicosatrienoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-11,14-Eicosadienoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-11,14-Eicosadienoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-11,14-Octadecadienoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-13,16,19-Docosatrienoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-3,6,9,12,15-Octadecapentaenoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-4,7,10,13,16,19-Docosahexaenoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-4,7,10,13,16,19-Docosahexaenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-4,7,10,13,16-Docosapentaenoic acid, standard deviation; all-cis-5,8,11,14,17-Eicosapentaenoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-5,8,11,14,17-Eicosapentaenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-5,8,11,14-Eicosatetraenoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-5,8,11,14-Eicosatetraenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-6,9,12,15,18-Heneicosapentaenoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-6,9,12,15,18-Heneicosapentaenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-6,9,12,15-Hexadecatetraenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-6,9,12,15-Octadecatetraenoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-6,9,12,15-Octadecatetraenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-6,9,12-Octadecatrienoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-6,9,12-Octadecatrienoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-7,10,13,16,19-Docosapentaenoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-7,10,13,16,19-Docosapentaenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-7,10,13,16-Docosatetraenoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-7,10,13,16-Docosatetraenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-7,10,13-Hexadecatrienoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-7,10-Hexadecadienoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-8,11,14,17-Eicosatetraenoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-8,11,14,17-Eicosatetraenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-8,11,14-Eicosatrienoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-8,11,14-Eicosatrienoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-9,12,15-Hexadecadienoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-9,12,15-Octadecatrienoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-9,12,15-Octadecatrienoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-9,12-Hexadecadienoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-9,12-Hexadecatrienoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; all-cis-9,12-Octadecadienoic acid of total fatty acids; all-cis-9,12-Octadecadienoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; Azores_comp; Balearic_Sea_comp; Barbate_comp; Barents_Sea_comp; Canary_Islands_comp; Cape_Verde_comp; Catalonian_Sea_comp; Central_Northeastern_Atlantic_comp; Cephalopods; cis-10-Heptadecenoic acid of total fatty acids; cis-10-Heptadecenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; cis-11-Docosenoic acid of total fatty acids; cis-11-Docosenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; cis-11-Hexadecenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; cis-11-Hexadecenoic acid of total fatty acids (IUPAC: (11Z)-hexadec-11-enoic acid); cis-11-Icosenoic acid of total fatty acids; cis-11-Icosenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; cis-11-Octadecenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; cis-11-Octadecenoic acid of total fatty acids (IUPAC: Octadec-11-enoic acid); cis-13-Docosenoic acid of total fatty acids; cis-13-Docosenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; cis-13-Icosenoic acid of total fatty acids; cis-13-Icosenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; cis-13-Octadecenoic acid of total fatty acids; cis-13-Octadecenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; cis-15-Docosenoic acid of total fatty acids; cis-15-Docosenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; cis-15-Tetracosenoic acid of total fatty acids; cis-15-Tetracosenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; cis-7-Hexadecenoic acid of total fatty acids; cis-7-Hexadecenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; cis-9-Hexadecenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; cis-9-Hexadecenoic acid of total fatty acids (IUPAC: (9Z)-hexadec-9-enoic acid); cis-9-Icosanoic acid of total fatty acids; cis-9-Icosanoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; cis-9-Octadecenoic acid of total fatty acids (IUPAC: Octadec-9-enoic acid); Class; Comment; Decanoic acid of total fatty acids; DEPTH, water; Docosanoic acid, standard deviation; Docosanoic acid of total fatty acids; Dodecanoic acid of total fatty acids; Dodecanoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; dolphins; Ebro_Delta_comp; elasmobranchs; Event label; Family; fatty acids; Finnmark_comp; Gear; Heptadecanoic acid, standard deviation; Heptadecanoic acid of total fatty acids; Hexadecadienoic acid of total fatty acids; Hexadecanoic acid, standard deviation; Hexadecanoic acid of total fatty acids; Hexadecatetraenoic acid of total fatty acids; Hexadecatetraenoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; Hexadecatrienoic acid of total fatty acids; Hexadecatrienoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; Hexadecenoic acid of total fatty acids; Icosanoic acid, standard deviation; Icosanoic acid of total fatty acids; Institution; Investigator; Irminger_Sea_comp; Isle_of_May_comp; Jellyfish; LATITUDE; Lipids, per total wet mass; Location; Lofoten_Vesteralen_comp; LONGITUDE; Madeira_comp; marine mammals; Mauritania_comp; mesopelagic fish; mesopelagic food web; Mid_North_Atlantic_comp; Month; North_Sea_comp; Norwegian_Sea_North_comp; Number of individuals; Ocean and sea region; Octadec-7-enoic acid of total fatty acids; Octadec-7-enoic acid of total fatty acids, standard deviation; Octadec-9-enoic acid, standard deviation; Octadecanoic acid, standard deviation; Octadecanoic acid of total fatty acids; Octadecatetraenoic acid 18:4(n-4) of total fatty acids; Octadecenoic acid of total fatty acids; Order; Organisms; Pentadecanoic acid, standard deviation; Pentadecanoic acid of total fatty acids; Persistent Identifier; Phylum; Raso_Islet_Cape_Verde_comp; Record number; Reference/source; Replicates; Reykjanes_Ridge_comp; Seabirds; Size; Spanish_coast_comp; Spitsbergen_Bear_Island_comp; SUMMER; Sustainable Management of Mesopelagic Resources; Svalbard_comp; Taxon/taxa; Taxon/taxa, unique identification (Semantic URI); Taxon/taxa, unique identification (URI); Tetracosanoic acid, standard deviation; Tetracosanoic acid of total fatty acids; Tetradecanoic acid, standard deviation; Tetradecanoic acid of total fatty acids; trophic markers; Tropic_Seamount_comp; Wet mass; Year of observation
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 16550 data points
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