Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopic inventory of the most abundant demersal fish captured by benthic gears in southwestern Iceland (North Atlantic)

Helgoland Marine Research

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 309-315

  Sarà, Gianluca ^a   De Pirro, Maurizio ^b   Sprovieri, Mario ^c   Rumolo, Paola ^c   Halldórsson, Halldór Pálmar ^d   Svavarsson, Jörundur ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Demersal fish; Food web; Iceland; North Atlantic; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; DEMERSAL FISH; FOOD WEB; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC MATTER; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIACEA; LOPHIIFORMES; MALLOTUS (FISH); MELANOGRAMMUS; PLEURONECTES;

EID: 70350297709     PISSN: 1438387X     EISSN: 14383888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10152-009-0159-6     Document Type: Article

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