Tracing carbon flow in an arctic marine food web using fatty acid-stable isotope analysis

Oecologia

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 117-129

  Budge, S M ^a   Wooller, M J ^b,c   Springer, A M ^c   Iverson, S J ^a   McRoy, C P ^c   Divoky, G J ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound specific; Diatoms; Lipid; Pelagic phytoplankton; Trophic linkages

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBON; FATTY ACID;

ALGA; BIOMARKER; DIATOM; FATTY ACID; FOOD WEB; GLOBAL WARMING; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LIPID; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEA ICE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMAL; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIATOM; FOOD CHAIN; ICE COVER; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; DIATOMS; FATTY ACIDS; FOOD CHAIN; ICE COVER; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALASKA; BARROW; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CETACEA; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 46949098559     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1053-7     Document Type: Article

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