Trophic interaction data and taxonomic information for fish predators and their prey spanning the North East Atlantic and its marginal seas between 1836-2013

Taxonomic information and the diet matrix for fish species-size-classes (rows)
and their prey (columns) used to produce feeding guilds via cluster analysis
for Thompson et al. (2020) ‘A feeding guild indicator to assess environmental
change impacts on marine ecosystem structure and functioning’. Journal of
Applied Ecology. The purpose of this study was to propose a food web indicator
which has been explicitly called for to inform policy via food web status
assessment as part of the European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive
and the indicator toolkit supporting The Convention for the Protection of the
Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (the ‘OSPAR Convention').

本数据集包含鱼类物种大小类群（行）及其猎物（列）的物种信息及摄食矩阵，旨在通过聚类分析构建摄食群。该数据集为 Thompson 等人（2020年）所著《应用于生态学杂志》中《评估环境变化对海洋生态系统结构和功能影响之摄食群指示器》一文提供支持。研究旨在提出一项食物网指示器，该指示器系根据欧盟海洋战略框架指令以及支持东北大西洋海洋环境保护公约（简称 OSPAR 公约）的指标工具箱之要求，通过评估食物网状态以供政策制定参考。