A food web analysis of the juvenile blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, using stable isotopes in whole animals and individual amino acids

Oecologia

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 416-426

  Fantle, Matthew S ^a,c   Dittel, Ana I ^b   Schwalm, Sandra M ^b   Epifanio, Charles E ^b   Fogel, Marilyn L ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Crustacean metabolism; Estuarine food web; Growth experiment; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CRAB; DIET; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MARSH; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 0032869738     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050874     Document Type: Article

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