Trophic relationships among seabirds in central California: Combined stable isotope and conventional dietary approach

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 327-336

  Sydeman, William J ^a   Hobson, Keith A ^b   Pyle, Peter ^a   Mclaren, Elizabeth B ^a  

^a PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

central California; diet; food web dynamics; marine birds and mammals; stable isotope analysis; trophic relationships

Indexed keywords

AVES; CEPPHUS COLUMBA; CERORHINCA; COLUMBA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUMETOPIAS; EUPHAUSIACEA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS; LARIDAE; LARUS OCCIDENTALIS; MAMMALIA; OTARIIDAE; PANTHERA LEO; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX PELAGICUS; RHINOCEROS; SIA; URIA AALGE;

EID: 0031005440     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369938     Document Type: Article

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