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Chapter 22 



Food Habits and Prey Ecology 



defray full social costs, wildlife can continue to do well. In 

 most cases where damage has occurred it is because those 

 who administer the public institutions have failed to include 

 consideration of the common property resources". 



Acknowledgments 



I thank my friends and colleagues Jack Fancher and Bob 

 Hoffman for involving me in fish assessment work, and 

 Charlie Collins and Mike Horn for stimulating my interest in 

 seabird feeding ecology during the Bolsa Chica days. Special 

 thanks to Charlie for being such a good teacher and enthusiastic 

 field partner. Thanks also to Dick Zembal for involving me 

 in a project on a coastal wetland food web; that project 

 cemented my interest in predator-prey relationships. Patty 



Wolf was especially helpful in providing much needed 

 literature and background information from all the work 

 done on the Pacific Coastal Pelagic Species Fishery 

 Management Plan. I thank C.J. Ralph, Mike McAllister, 

 George Hunt, and an anonymous reviewer for their 

 encouragement and helpful comments on an earlier version 

 of this manuscript. I especially appreciate George's interest 

 in the energetic aspects of seabird ecology. The dedicated 

 work of Harry Carter and Gerry Sanger provided inspiration. 

 They also provided much help and guidance. This project 

 would not have been possible without the capable assistance 

 of Vikki Avara who searched for and obtained the copious 

 and obscure literature upon my sometimes fickle demands. 

 Thanks also to Shannon Sayre and Heather Johnson for 

 assistance with the tables. 



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