Trophic relationships among Antarctic fulmarine petrels: Insights into dietary overlap and chick provisioning strategies inferred from stable-isotope (δ15N and δ13C) analyses

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 198, Issue , 2000, Pages 273-281

  Hodum, Peter J ^a   Hobson, Keith A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Chick provisioning; Daption capense; Diet; Fulmarus glacialoides; Pagodroma nivea; Stable isotope analysis; Thalassoica antarctica; Trophic relationships

Indexed keywords

DIETARY OVERLAP; FOOD PROVISIONING; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; SEABIRD; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ANTARCTICA;

DAPTION CAPENSE; FULMARUS GLACIALOIDES; PAGODROMA NIVEA; THALASSOICA ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0034608528     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps198273     Document Type: Article

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