Sources of variation in small rodent trophic niche: New insights from DNA metabarcoding and stable isotope analysis

Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 361-381

  Soininen, Eeva M ^a   Ehrich, Dorothée ^a   Lecomte, Nicolas ^a,f   Yoccoz, Nigel G ^a   Tarroux, Arnaud ^b,g   Berteaux, Dominique ^b   Gauthier, Gilles ^c   Gielly, Ludovic ^d   Brochmann, Christian ^e   Gussarova, Galina ^e   Ims, Rolf A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^f Chaires de recherche du Canada   (Canada)

^g NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

animals; carbon 13; competition; diet diversity; DNA metabarcoding; habitat use; herbivore; isotope ecology; nitrogen 15; trophic niche width; tundra food web

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

ANIMAL; ARCTIC; ARVICOLINAE; CANADA; DNA BARCODING; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; NORWAY; PHYSIOLOGY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ARVICOLINAE; CARBON ISOTOPES; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; LICHENS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; NORWAY; NUNAVUT; RUSSIA; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 84905683148     PISSN: 10256016     EISSN: 14772639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2014.915824     Document Type: Article

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