Assessment of Trophic Positions for the Seabirds of South Florida using 13C and 15N Stable Iotopes

• Main Authors: Young, Michael, Hirons, Amy, Martinez, Zara, Kerstetter, David
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: NSUWorks 2016
• Subjects: Marine Biology; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Monroe; Pacific; Northeast Atlantic; osprey; Pandion haliaetus
• Online Access: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facpresentations/661

Background/Question/Methods Seabirds outside the Northeast Pacific and Northeast Atlantic regions are poorly understood from a trophic perspective. To elucidate trophic level relationships, we examined the concentration of ∂13C and ∂15N in the blood, breast muscle, and feathers (proximal and distal...