Arctic seabird food chains explored by fatty acid composition and stable isotopes in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard

Polar Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1147-1155

  Wold, Anette ^a   Jæger, Iris ^b,c   Hop, Haakon ^a   Gabrielsen, Geir Wing ^a   Falk Petersen, Stig ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic fishes; Fatty acids; Foraging ecology; Kongsfjorden; Seabirds; Stable isotopes; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; DIET; FATTY ACID; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MUSCLE; SEABIRD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER COLUMN; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC; KONGSFJORDEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ALLE ALLE; AMPHIPODA; AVES; CALANUS; FULMARUS GLACIALIS; LARUS HYPERBOREUS; PISCES; RISSA TRIDACTYLA; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 79960468978     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-011-0975-4     Document Type: Article

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