Importance of local production versus pelagic subsidies in the diet of an isolated population of bottlenose dolphins Tursiops sp.

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 321, Issue , 2006, Pages 283-293

  Lusseau, Susan Mærsk ^a,b   Wing, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Diet; Fjord; Isolated population; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; DIET; DOLPHIN; ISOLATED POPULATION; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AUSTRALASIA; DOUBTFUL SOUND; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

CEPHALOPODA; EPTATRETUS CIRRHATUS; HAGFISH; PISCES; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 33749624236     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps321283     Document Type: Article

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