Carbon and nitrogen isotopes from top predator amino acids reveal rapidly shifting ocean biochemistry in the outer California current

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Ruiz Cooley, Rocio I ^a   Koch, Paul L ^a   Fiedler, Paul C ^b   McCarthy, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBON; ISOTOPE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATOR; SPERM WHALE; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; METABOLISM; PACIFIC OCEAN; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKIN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER FLOW;

CETACEA; MAMMALIA; ODONTOCETI; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETERIDAE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC STATES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; SKIN; SPERM WHALE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84908139933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110355     Document Type: Article

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