Trophic structure in a seabird host-parasite food web: Insights from stable isotope analyses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Gómez Díaz, Elena ^a   González Solís, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON 13; NITROGEN; NITROGEN 15; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ECTOPARASITE; FEATHER; FEMALE; FLEA; FOOD WEB; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LOUSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEABIRD; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CARBON ISOTOPES; FOOD CHAIN; GEOGRAPHY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; ISOTOPE LABELING; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PARASITES;

CALONECTRIS; PHTHIRAPTERA; PROCELLARIIDAE; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 77956412924     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010454     Document Type: Article

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