Intrapopulation variability shaping isotope discrimination and turnover: Experimental evidence in Arctic Foxes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Lecomte, Nicolas ^a   Ahlstrøm, Øystein ^b   Ehrich, Dorothée ^a   Fuglei, Eva ^c   Ims, Rolf A ^a   Yoccoz, Nigel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

ADULT ANIMAL; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOX; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MALE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MUSCLE TISSUE; NAIL BED; NONHUMAN; PLASMA HALF LIFE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TURNOVER TIME; VULPES LAGOPUS; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLOOD; BLOOD CELL; DIET; HALF LIFE TIME; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; AVES; CANIDAE; MAMMALIA; VULPES LAGOPUS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CELLS; CARBON ISOTOPES; DIET; FEMALE; FOXES; HALF-LIFE; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 79959559073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021357     Document Type: Article

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