Use of blubber fatty acid profiles to detect inter-annual variations in the diet of grey seals Halichoerus grypus

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 248, Issue , 2003, Pages 257-266

  Walton, Michael ^a   Pomeroy, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blubber; Diet; Fatty acids; Grey seals

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DIET; FATTY ACID; PINNIPED;

GRYPUS; HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; MAMMALIA; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037455753     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps248257     Document Type: Article

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