Spatial food-web structure in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean based on compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 541-560

  Hetherington, Elizabeth D ^a,b   Olson, Robert J ^c   Drazen, Jeffrey C ^d   Lennert Cody, Cleridy E ^c   Ballance, Lisa T ^e   Kaufmann, Ronald S ^b   Popp, Brian N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c INTER AMERICAN TROPICAL TUNA COMMISSION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SAMPLING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

CEPHALOPODA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; MYCTOPHIDAE; SCOMBRIDAE;

EID: 85028235203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10443     Document Type: Article

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