Analysis of stable isotope ratios in blood of tracked wandering albatrosses fails to distinguish a δ13C gradient within their winter foraging areas in the southwest Atlantic Ocean

• Published in: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
• Main Authors: Ceia, Filipe R., Ramos, Jaime A., Phillips, Richard A., Cherel, Yves, Jones, Daniel C., Vieira, Rui P., Xavier, José C.
• Other Authors: Marine and environmental research centre - IMAR-CMA (Coimbra, Portugal), University of Coimbra Portugal (UC), British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Austral; Bird Island; Wandering Albatross
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01289138; https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.7401

International audience RATIONALE: The main limitation of isotopic tracking for inferring distribution is the lack of detailed reference maps ofthe isotopic landscape (i.e. isoscapes) in the marine environment. Here, we attempt to map the marine δ13C isoscape forthe southwestern sector of the Atlanti...