Comparing pellet and stable isotope analyses of nestling Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata diet

Ibis

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 176-188

  Resano Mayor, Jaime ^a   Hernández Matías, Antonio ^a   Real, Joan ^a   Parés, Francesc ^a   Inger, Richard ^b   Bearhop, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Conventional diet analysis; Foraging ecology; Isotopic mixing models; Nitrogen isotopes; Predators; Raptors; Sulphur isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NESTLING; RAPTOR; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

ACCIPITRIDAE; ALECTORIS RUFA; AQUILA; AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA; COLUMBA PALUMBUS; LARUS MICHAHELLIS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PASSERI; RAPTORES; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS; SCIURUS VULGARIS;

EID: 84890563408     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12095     Document Type: Article

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