Global Trophic Position Comparison of Two Dominant Mesopelagic Fish Families (Myctophidae, Stomiidae) Using Amino Acid Nitrogen Isotopic Analyses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Choy, C Anela ^a   Davison, Peter C ^b   Drazen, Jeffrey C ^a   Flynn, Adrian ^c,d   Gier, Elizabeth J ^a   Hoffman, Joel C ^e   McClain Counts, Jennifer P ^f   Miller, Todd W ^g   Popp, Brian N ^a   Ross, Steve W ^h   Sutton, Tracey T ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^g EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTA NITROGEN 15; NITROGEN 15; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FOOD; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MARINE SPECIES; MASS; MYCTOPHIDAE; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STOMACH CONTENT; STOMIIDAE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PHENYLALANINE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOMACH;

MYCTOPHIDAE; PISCES; STOMIIDAE;

EID: 84870381392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050133     Document Type: Article

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