Stable isotope variation in loggerhead turtles reveals Pacific-Atlantic oceanographic differences

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 417, Issue , 2010, Pages 277-285

  Pajuelo, Mariela ^a   Bjorndal, Karen A ^a   Alfaro Shigueto, Joanna ^b,c   Seminoff, Jeffrey A ^d   Mangel, Jeffrey C ^b,c   Bolten, Alan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Pro Delphinus ^*  (Peru)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

; 15N; 13C; Denitrification; Loggerhead turtles; Nitrogen fixation; Northeast Atlantic; Southeast Pacific; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; DENITRIFICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD WEB; JUVENILE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC LEVEL; TURTLE;

AZORES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST); PORTUGAL;

CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 78149433872     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08804     Document Type: Article

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