Stable isotope data from chick feathers of 11 South Georgian bird species

• Main Authors: Moreno, Rocio, McGill, Rona A.R., Phillips, Richard
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Data Centre; British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council; Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK. 2016
• Subjects: "EARTH SCIENCE","BIOSPHERE","ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS","ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS"; "EARTH SCIENCE","BIOSPHERE","ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS","SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS","INDIGENOUS/NATIVE SPECIES"; Antarctic; Austral; Giganteus; Antarc*; Antarctic prion; Diomedea exulans; Giant Petrel; Pachyptila desolata; Wandering Albatross
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/01c17ccb-88e6-4dfa-9613-06d53e3d2554; https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00826

During several austral summers covering a 13 year period, we collected arandom sample of body feathers from chicks of 11 sympatric species ofProcellariiform (wandering albatross Diomedea exulans -79 individuals intotal-, black-browed albatross Thalassarche melanophris - 51-,grey-headed albatross T. chrysostoma - 58 -,light-mantled sooty albatross Phoebetria palpebrata - 34 -,northern giant petrel Macronectes halli - 59 -,southern giant petrel M. giganteus - 60 -,white-chinned petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis - 39 -,blue petrel Halobaena caerulea - 19 - ,Antarctic prion Pachyptila desolata - 19 -,South Georgian diving petrel Pelecanoides georgicus - 2 -and common diving petrel P. urinatrix - 6 -) to analyse Delta15N and Delta13C.