Bones as biofuel: A review of whale bone composition with implications for deep-sea biology and palaeoanthropology

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1702, 2011, Pages 9-17

  Higgs, Nicholas D ^a,b   Little, Crispin T S ^b   Glover, Adrian G ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioerosion; Marine mammals; Osedax; Whale fall

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BIOFUEL; BONE; DEEP-SEA ORGANISM; LIPID; OIL; PALEOECOLOGY; SCAVENGER; TAPHONOMY; WHALE; WHALING;

BALAENOPTERA BOREALIS; BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; CETACEA; ESCHRICHTIUS ROBUSTUS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; OSEDAX; PHYSETER CATODON; STENELLA (CETACEA); STENELLA COERULEOALBA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78650374781     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1267     Document Type: Conference Paper

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