Trophic experiments to estimate isotope discrimination factors

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 948-954

  Caut, Stephane ^a   Angulo, Elena ^a   Courchamp, Franck ^b   Figuerola, Jordi ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Diet dependent discrimination factor; Diet reconstruction; Diet tissue shift; Dietary protein source; Fractionation factor; Isotopic routing; Mixing model

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; DIET; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; RODENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

PERGA; RATTUS;

EID: 77954371537     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01832.x     Document Type: Article

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