From food to offspring down: Tissue-specific discrimination and turn-over of stable isotopes in herbivorous waterbirds and other avian foraging guilds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Hahn, Steffen ^a,b   Hoye, Bethany J ^b   Korthals, Harry ^b   Klaassen, Marcel ^b,c  

^a SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTA CARBON 13; DELTA NITROGEN 15; OVALBUMIN; STABLE ISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YOLK PROTEIN; CARBON; NITROGEN; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCK; EGG LAYING; EGG YOLK; ERYTHROCYTE; FEATHER; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GOOSE; HOOF AND CLAW; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PLASMA HALF LIFE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIRD; BODY WEIGHT; FOOD; HERBIVORY; HISTOLOGY; KINETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; CARBON ISOTOPES; FEATHERS; FEMALE; FOOD; HERBIVORY; KINETICS; MALE; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVUM; WATER;

EID: 84856436541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030242     Document Type: Article

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