Fatty acid biomarker ratios - Suitable trophic indicators in Antarctic euphausiids?

Polar Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 774-782

  Stübing, Dorothea ^a   Hagen, Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; FATTY ACID; LIPID; METHODOLOGY; TROPHIC INTERACTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALIA; EUPHAUSIA; EUPHAUSIA FRIGIDA; EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIA TRIACANTHA; EUPHAUSIACEA; INVERTEBRATA; OPHTHALMAPSEUDES; THYSANOESSA; THYSANOESSA MACRURA;

EID: 9144243570     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-003-0550-8     Document Type: Article

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