Table 2.
Proportions of elements, radular length, area, quantity of tooth rows for the species foraging on certain ingesta types.
| Parameter | Ingesta type | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | Soft to solid | Medium | Medium to solid | Solid | |||||||||||
| Mean | SD | N | Mean | SD | N | Mean | SD | N | Mean | SD | N | Mean | SD | N | |
| Proportions of all elements, atomic % | 1.88 | 2.80 | 64/64 | 2.99 | 2.40 | 348/348 | 5.58 | 6.24 | 164/164 | 3.97 | 2.39 | 122/122 | 6.33 | 12.50 | 688/688 |
| Radular length, µm | 1964.00 | 241.55 | 5 | 5901.28 | 3945.67 | 20 | 7704.29 | 6710.08 | 9 | 20,128.88 | 2923.74 | 5 | 7911.95 | 8319.09 | 24 |
| Radular area, µm2 | 702,397 | 45,924 | 5 | 7,406,442 | 7,723,878 | 19 | 25,206,904 | 26,887,891 | 9 | 15,106,455 | 6,172,958 | 5 | 6,144,306 | 8,488,474 | 24 |
| N of tooth rows | 59 | 24 | 5 | 92 | 53 | 20 | 62 | 43 | 9 | 241 | 38 | 5 | 97 | 53 | 24 |
| Fe-proportion, atomic % | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/64 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/348 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/164 | 0.34 | 0.15 | 62/122 | 13.69 | 10.17 | 120/688 |
| Mg-proportion, atomic % | 0.34 | 0.24 | 41/64 | 0.15 | 0.11 | 237/348 | 0.68 | 0.43 | 114/164 | 0.28 | 0.27 | 85/122 | 0.42 | 0.62 | 426/688 |
| Ca-proportion, atomic % | 3.11 | 2.49 | 12/64 | 1.22 | 1.27 | 317/348 | 3.15 | 3.22 | 150/164 | 1.12 | 1.03 | 118/122 | 1.84 | 1.80 | 561/688 |
| P-proportion, atomic % | 0.69 | 0.95 | 22/64 | 1.29 | 1.12 | 264/348 | 1.91 | 2.06 | 132/164 | 0.63 | 0.62 | 112/122 | 1.11 | 1.64 | 405/688 |
| Cl-proportion, atomic % | 0.26 | 0.43 | 27/64 | 0.42 | 0.41 | 256/348 | 0.98 | 0.27 | 6/164 | 0.16 | 0.18 | 66/122 | 0.21 | 0.15 | 248/688 |
| F-proportion, atomic % | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/64 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/348 | 0.65 | 0.74 | 136/164 | 0.28 | 0.24 | 44/122 | 0.38 | 0.48 | 156/688 |
| Si-proportion, atomic % | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/64 | 0.22 | 0.20 | 116/348 | 0.74 | 0.58 | 24/164 | 0.50 | 0.46 | 120/122 | 7.39 | 10.40 | 83/688 |
| Cu-proportion, atomic % | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/64 | 0.19 | 0.12 | 94/348 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/164 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/122 | 0.33 | 0.17 | 52/688 |
| S-proportion, atomic % | 0.62 | 1.05 |
40/ 64 |
0.36 | 0.25 | 241/348 | 0.22 | 0.20 | 69/164 | 0.32 | 0.20 | 104/122 | 0.38 | 0.52 | 349/688 |
| Na-proportion, atomic % | 0.38 | 0.28 | 58/64 | 0.22 | 0.22 | 174/348 | 0.22 | 0.31 | 69/164 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 64/122 | 0.66 | 0.70 | 230/688 |
| K-proportion, atomic % | 0.02 | 0.01 | 14/64 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 24/348 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 10/164 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 6/122 | 0.39 | 0.40 | 40/688 |
N, quantity of teeth that contain the element, or quantity of radulae studied.