Extending an indicator:Year-round information on seabird trophic ecology from multiple-tissue stable-isotope analyses

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Hobson, Keith A., Bond, Alexander L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Carbon-13; Nitrogen-15; Seabirds; Stable isotopes; Temporal integration; Baffin Bay; Fulmar; Alle alle; Baffin; Black guillemot; Black-legged Kittiwake; Cepphus grylle; Dovekie; Fulmarus glacialis; Glaucous Gull; ivory gull; Larus hyperboreus; Northern Fulmar; Pagophila eburnea; rissa tridactyla; thick-billed murre; Uria lomvia; uria
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Stable isotope analysis of tissues of seabirds and their prey has proven to be an extremely useful tool in seabird dietary studies in general and in the potential use of seabirds as ecological indicators in particular. The measurement of stable carbon (δ 13 C) and nitrogen (δ 15 N) isotope values is...