Trophic position estimates of marine teleosts using amino acid compound specific isotopic analysis

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 476-493

  Bradley, Christina J ^a,d   Wallsgrove, Natalie J ^a   Choy, C Anela ^a   Drazen, Jeffrey C ^a   Hetherington, Elizabeth D ^b,c   Hoen, Danielle K ^a   Popp, Brian N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1002/lom3.10041     Document Type: Article

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