Nitrogen isotope fractionation in amino acids from harbor seals: Implications for compound-specific trophic position calculations

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 482, Issue , 2013, Pages 265-277

  Germain, Leslie R ^a   Koch, Paul L ^a   Harvey, James ^b   McCarthy, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Compound specific isotope analysis; Phoca vitulina; Protein content; TEF; Trophic enrichment factors; Trophic position; Urea

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DATA ACQUISITION; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD WEB; FRACTIONATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PINNIPED; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DASYATIDAE; ELASMOBRANCHII; MAMMALIA; MOLLUSCA; OSTEICHTHYES; PHOCA; PHOCA VITULINA; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84878355127     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10257     Document Type: Article

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