Nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes do not reflect nutritional condition in the striped dolphin

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1343-1347

  Gómez Campos, Encarna ^a   Borrell, Asunción ^a   Aguilar, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

CARBON STABLE ISOTOPES; NITROGEN STABLE ISOTOPE; NUTRITIONAL CONDITIONS; STRIPED DOLPHINS;

CARBON;

EID: 79954432487     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.4999     Document Type: Article

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