Isotopic assessment of prey and habitat preferences of a cetacean community in the southwestern South Atlantic Ocean

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 418, Issue , 2010, Pages 235-248

  Riccialdelli, Luciana ^a,b   Newsome, Seth D ^c   Fogel, Marilyn L ^d   Goodall, R Natalie P ^a,b  

^a CENTRO AUSTRAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS CADIC CONICET   (Argentina)

^b Museo Acatushún de Aves y Mamíferos Marinos Australes AMMA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Food prey; Foraging areas; Small cetaceans; South Atlantic Ocean; Southern Ocean; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BONE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CETACEAN; COLLAGEN; ECOTYPE; FEEDING GROUND; HABITAT SELECTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

CEPHALORHYNCHUS COMMERSONII; CETACEA; DELPHINIDAE; GRAMPUS GRISEUS; LAGENORHYNCHUS CRUCIGER; LISSODELPHIS PERONII; PHOCOENA DIOPTRICA; PHOCOENIDAE; PSEUDORCA CRASSIDENS;

EID: 78649621943     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08826     Document Type: Article

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