Lipids from stomach oil of procellariiform seabirds document the importance of myctophid fish in the Southern Ocean

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2445-2455

  Connan, Maëlle ^a   Cherel, Yves ^b   Mayzaud, Patrick ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; CRUSTACEAN; DEEP-SEA FISHERY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LIPID; NUTRITION; OIL; PREY AVAILABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; HALOBAENA CAERULEA; MYCTOPHIDAE; PACHYPTILA BELCHERI; PACHYPTILA DESOLATA; PROCELLARIA AEQUINOCTIALIS; PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES; PUFFINUS TENUIROSTRIS; THYSANOESSA MACRURA;

EID: 36749070914     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.6.2445     Document Type: Article

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