Tracing salmon nutrients in riparian food webs: Isotopic evidence in a ground-foraging passerine

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1317-1323

  Christie, Katie S ^a   Hocking, Morgan D ^a,b   Reimchen, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATHER; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MIGRATION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PASSERINE; RIPARIAN ZONE; SALMONID; SPAWNING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; ONCORHYNCHUS; PASSERIFORMES; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 55949132651     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z08-110     Document Type: Article

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