Adélie penguin population diet monitoring by analysis of food DNA in scats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Jarman, Simon N ^a   McInnes, Julie C ^a   Faux, Cassandra ^a   Polanowski, Andrea M ^a   Marthick, James ^b   Deagle, Bruce E ^a   Southwell, Colin ^a   Emmerson, Louise ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; FECES ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; INDICATOR ORGANISM; JELLYFISH; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PENGUIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; DIET; DNA; FECES; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD HABITS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84892777856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082227     Document Type: Article

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