Patterns of stable carbon isotope turnover in gag, Mycteroperca microlepis, an economically important marine piscivore determined with a non-lethal surgical biopsy procedure

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 243-252

  Nelson, James ^a   Chanton, Jeffrey ^a   Coleman, Felicia ^a   Koenig, Christopher ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopsies; Lipid correction; Surgery; Trophic shift

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; DIETARY SHIFT; GROWTH RATE; LIPID; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PERCIFORM; PISCIVORE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TIMESCALE;

LAGODON; MYCTEROPERCA MICROLEPIS; SCOMBER SCOMBRUS;

EID: 79952040280     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-010-9736-4     Document Type: Article

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