Use of blubber fatty acid profiles to distinguish dietary differences between grey seals Halichoerus grypus from two UK breeding colonies

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 193, Issue , 2000, Pages 201-208

  Walton, M J ^a   Henderson, R J ^b   Pomeroy, P P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fatty acids; Grey seals; Population discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DIET; FATTY ACID; PINNIPED;

ISLE OF MAY; RONA; SCOTLAND(HIGHLAND); SCOTLAND(LOTHIAN); UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; GRYPUS; HALICHOERES; HALICHOERES GRYPUS; HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034723826     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps193201     Document Type: Article

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