Food-web inferences of stable isotope spatial patterns in copepods and yellowfin tuna in the pelagic eastern Pacific Ocean

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 124-138

  Olson, Robert J ^a   Popp, Brian N ^b   Graham, Brittany S ^b   López Ibarra, Gladis A ^c   Galván Magaña, Felipe ^c   Lennert Cody, Cleridy E ^a   Bocanegra Castillo, Noemi ^c   Wallsgrove, Natalie J ^b   Gier, Elizabeth ^b   Alatorre Ramírez, Vanessa ^c   Ballance, Lisa T ^d   Fry, Brian ^e  

^a INTER AMERICAN TROPICAL TUNA COMMISSION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOUND-SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; COPEPOD SPECIES; CURRENT SYSTEM; DIFFERENT SIZES; EASTERN PACIFIC; EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN; EFFECTIVE TOOL; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; FISHING EFFECTS; FOOD WEBS; FOOD-WEB MODELS; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; GLUTAMIC ACID; ISOTOPE VALUES; MOVEMENT BEHAVIOR; N VALUE; OCEANIC ECOSYSTEMS; PELAGIC FOOD WEB; POSITION ESTIMATES; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SOUTH-TO-NORTH; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; STABLE ISOTOPES; STUDY AREAS; TROPHIC POSITION; TROPHIC STATUS; TROPHODYNAMICS; UNIFORM GRADIENT; WEIGHTED AVERAGES; WHITE MUSCLES;

AMINO ACIDS; CLIMATE MODELS; ECOSYSTEMS; FISHERIES; ISOTOPES; LAKES; ORGANIC ACIDS;

VITAMINS;

BIOMASS; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CLIMATE EFFECT; CRUSTACEAN; FISHING; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OMNIVORY; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PERCIFORM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; STOMACH CONTENT; TUNA FISHERY; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

COPEPODA; SCOMBRIDAE; THUNNUS ALBACARES;

EID: 77957134059     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2010.04.026     Document Type: Article

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