Metabolic fractionation of stable carbon isotopes: Implications of different proximate compositions for studies of the aquatic food webs using δ13C data

Oecologia

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 337-343

  Focken, U ^a   Becker, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Food web studies; Metabolic fractionation; Proximate composition; Stable carbon isotopes; Trophic shift

Indexed keywords

CYPRINUS CARPIO; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; TILAPIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031844124     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050525     Document Type: Article

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