Stable isotope-based location in a shelf sea setting: accuracy and precision are comparable to light-based location methods

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 232-240

  Trueman, Clive N ^a   MacKenzie, Kirsteen M ^a,b   St John Glew, Katie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

assignment; connectivity; geolocation; isoscape; marine; migration; provenance; spatial

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991067505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12651     Document Type: Article

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