Redundancy of Variables Used to Describe Importance of Prey Species in Fish Diets

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Information redundancy associated with three measurement variables were examined using food habit data from five species of demersal fish in the lower Bay of Fundy. Number, weight, and percent frequency of occurrence measures of three prey species all load heavily on the first principal component of a PCA and are therefore highly correlated. We conclude that it is probably not necessary to create compound indices of prey species importance when documenting soft-bottom benthic associations or demersal fish food habits. Compound indices add little new information when compared with any single measure.

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