Diet of northern bottlenose whales inferred from fatty-acid and stable-isotope analyses of biopsy samples

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1442-1454

  Hooker, S K ^a   Iverson, S J ^a   Ostrom, P ^a   Smith, S C ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; FATTY ACIDS; ISOTOPES; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

BLUBBER SAMPLES;

BIODIVERSITY;

DIET; FATTY ACID; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; WHALE;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

GONATUS FABRICII; GONATUS STEENSTRUPI; HYPEROODON AMPULLATUS;

EID: 0034751807     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z01-096     Document Type: Article

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