Geographic assignment of seabirds to their origin: Combining morphologic, genetic, and biogeochemical analyses

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1484-1498

  Gómez Díaz, Elena ^a,b   González Solís, Jacob ^a  

^a Department Biologia Animal ^*  (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DURAN I REYNALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assignment methods; Biogeochemical markers; Bird mortality at sea; Calonectris spp.; Longline fisheries; Mitochrondrial DNA; Shearwaters; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; DATA SET; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FEATHER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; LONGLINING; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; MORTALITY; SEABIRD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TAXONOMY; TRACE ELEMENT;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; IBIZA [BALEARIC ISLANDS]; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MINORCA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AVES; CALONECTRIS; CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA BOREALIS; CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA DIOMEDEA; PROCELLARIIDAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; BREEDING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BREEDING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY;

EID: 34848854904     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1232.1     Document Type: Article

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