Using fatty-acid profile analysis as an ecologic indicator in the management of tourist impacts on marine wildlife: A case of stingray-feeding in the Caribbean

Environmental Management

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 665-677

  Semeniuk, Christina A D ^a   Speers Roesch, Ben ^b   Rothley, Kristina D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY-ACID PROFILE ANALYSIS; STINGRAY-FEEDING; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FATTY ACIDS; LIPIDS; NUTRITION;

ECOLOGY;

FATTY ACID;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DIET; FATTY ACID; FEEDING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; TELEOST; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HABITUATION; LIPID COMPOSITION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; SQUID; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; CARIBBEAN REGION; DIET; ELASMOBRANCHII; ENVIRONMENT; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; FEMALE; MALE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAYMAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES;

CEPHALOPODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; DASYATIDAE; DASYATIS AMERICANA; ELASMOBRANCHII;

EID: 34648836357     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-006-0321-8     Document Type: Article

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