Slow isotope turnover rates and low discrimination values in the american alligator: Implications for interpretation of ectotherm stable isotope data

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 137-148

  Rosenblatt, Adam E ^a   Heithaus, Michael R ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

ARRAY; CELL ORGANELLE; CROCODILIAN; DATA SET; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECTOTHERMY; ENDOTHERMY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PLASMA; STABLE ISOTOPE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; CHEMISTRY; CROCODILIAN; DIET; EPIDERMIS; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; DIET; EPIDERMIS; FLORIDA; FOOD CHAIN; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATORINAE; TETRAPODA;

EID: 84872361240     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/668295     Document Type: Article

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