Isotopic evidence of limited exchange between Mediterranean and eastern North Atlantic fin whales

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 1801-1806

  Giménez, Joan ^a,b   Gõmez Campos, Encarna ^a   Borrell, Asunciõn ^a   Cardona, Luis ^a   Aguilar, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CHEMICAL MARKERS; CIRCULATING FLUIDS; CONTINUOUS-FLOW ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRIES; FIN WHALES; ISOTOPIC VALUES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH ATLANTIC; POPULATION STRUCTURES; RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STOCKS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84879899622     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6633     Document Type: Article

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