Effects of fixation on freshwater invertebrate carbon and nitrogen isotope composition and its arithmetic correction

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 632, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 297-308

  Ventura, M ^a,b,c   Jeppesen, E ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Correction; Fixation; Invertebrates; Nitrogen isotopes; Preservation

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPES; CORRECTION; FIXATION; INVERTEBRATES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PRESERVATION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; ETHANOL; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

BENTHOS; CARBON ISOTOPE; CORRECTION; ETHANOL; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVERTEBRATE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MASS BALANCE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANKTON; PRESERVATION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349995869     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-009-9852-3     Document Type: Article

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