Dottorato di ricerca in Ecologia e gestione delle risorse biologicheThe present thesis deals with the analysis of the trophic web structure and spatio-temporal variation in trophic levels of prey and predator in two different ecosystems: a coastal environment up to 80 m in the Northern Sicily (Italy) and a deep-sea ecosystem, the middle slope (450-750 m deep) of the Balearic basin (Cabrera Archipelago-Spain). As trophic relationships are fundamental to understand biological interaction, a detailed study of the food and feeding ecology of demersal fish species, in the coast and deep-sea, is attempted. Three fish species from costal ecosystems and three from deep-sea were selected as representative of different trophic guilds (benthophagous, ...