Ecological tracers can quantify food web structure and change

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 5618-5623

  Hebert, Craig E ^a   Arts, Michael T ^a   Weseloh, D V Chip ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL TRACERS; ENERGY FLOW; FOOD WEBS; TROPHODYNAMIC CHANGE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; NUTRITION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; DOCOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACID; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; ISOTOPE; LAKE WATER; NITROGEN 15; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; SATURATED FATTY ACID; TRACER;

BIODIVERSITY; CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; NUTRITION;

ENERGY FLOW; FATTY ACID; FOOD WEB; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; SEABIRD; TRACER;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CANADA; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EGG LAYING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FOOD WEB; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; EGGS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FATTY ACIDS; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; HUMANS;

LARUS ARGENTATUS;

EID: 33748770963     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0520619     Document Type: Article

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