Fish fins and scales as non-lethally sampled tissues for stable isotope analysis in five fish species of north – eastern Spain

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 925-932

  Cano Rocabayera, Oriol ^a   Maceda Veiga, Alberto ^a,b   de Sostoa, Adolfo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

correction factors; fish; muscle; non lethal sampling; 13C; 15N

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939871641     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: 15735133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-014-0328-6     Document Type: Article

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