Methods to collect, preserve, and prepare elasmobranch tissues for stable isotope analysis

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-63

  Kim, Sora L ^a,b   Koch, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Feeding Ecology; Nitrogen; Urea

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CARBON; FISH; ICHNOLOGY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MUSCLE; NITROGEN; PRESERVATION; SAMPLING; STABLE ISOTOPE; UREA; WATER TREATMENT;

ELASMOBRANCHII;

EID: 84865443228     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-011-9860-9     Document Type: Article

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