Predator-prey diet linkages with error range for the Gulf of Mexico fitted using maximum likelihood method, April 2013- May 2015

Data is from Tarnecki, J.H., Wallace, A., Simons, J. and Ainsworth, C.H. 2016. Progression of a Gulf of Mexico Food Web Supporting Atlantis Ecosystem Model Development. Fisheries Research (doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2016.02.023). This is a dataset representing predator-prey linkages with associated error ranges for Gulf of Mexico fish functional groups. The data will be used in an Atlantis biogeochemical trophic ecosystem model of the Gulf of Mexico described by Ainsworth et al. 2015 (NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-676). This diet dataset is based on data previously published in Masi, M.D., Ainsworth, C.H., Chagaris, D., 2014. (Ecol. Model. 284, 60-74) and expanded to include new original stomach sampling described by Tarnecki et al., as well as information collated in the Gulf of Mexico Species Interaction Database (GoMexSI) maintained by Jim Simons at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. The main improvement over the original Masi et al. diet matrix is that more species are considered and from a wider geographic range (including waters of the western Gulf of Mexico). Tarnecki et al use this improved diet matrix in Atlantis to show improved model performance; they also compared this revised diet matrix against previously published diet matrices for the Gulf of Mexico. The format of this data is similar to the original Masi et al. diet data located here: http://dx.doi.org/10.7266/N7Q23X72 (UDI: R1.x135.120:0007).本数据集源自Tarnecki, J.H.、Wallace, A.、Simons, J.与Ainsworth, C.H.于2016年发表的《支撑Atlantis生态系统模型开发的墨西哥湾食物网演化研究》，该成果发表于《渔业研究》（Fisheries Research，DOI:10.1016/j.fishres.2016.02.023）。本数据集记录了墨西哥湾鱼类功能群的捕食者-猎物关联关系及其配套误差范围，将用于Ainsworth等人2015年提出的墨西哥湾Atlantis生物地球化学营养级生态系统模型（对应NOAA技术备忘录NMFS-SEFSC-676）。本食性数据集的基础数据源自Masi, M.D.、Ainsworth, C.H.、Chagaris, D.于2014年发表的研究（刊载于《生态模型》（Ecol. Model.）第284卷，第60-74页），并进行了扩展：纳入了Tarnecki等人所描述的全新原始胃容物采样数据，以及由德州农工大学科珀斯克里斯蒂分校的Jim Simons维护的墨西哥湾物种相互作用数据库（GoMexSI）中整理的相关信息。相较于Masi等人最初的食性矩阵，本数据集的主要改进在于纳入了更多物种，且覆盖的地理范围更广（包括墨西哥湾西部海域）。Tarnecki等人将该改进后的食性矩阵应用于Atlantis模型，证实了模型性能得到提升；同时他们还将该修订后的食性矩阵与此前已发表的墨西哥湾相关食性矩阵进行了对比。本数据集的格式与Masi等人的原始食性数据格式一致，原始数据的DOI链接为：http://dx.doi.org/10.7266/N7Q23X72（唯一数据集标识符UDI: R1.x135.120:0007）。