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Mobile crustacean prey, i.e. crangonid, euphausiid, mysid, and pandalid shrimp, are vital links in marine food webs. Their intermediate sizes and characteristic caridoid escape responses lead to chronic underestimation when sampling at large spatial scales with either plankton nets or large trawl nets. Here, as discrete sampling units, researchers utilized individual fish diets (i.e. fish biosamplers) to examine abundance and location of these prey families over large spatial and temporal scales in the northeastern US shelf large ecosystem. [Source: Marine Ecology Progress Series]
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