Validating the use of intrinsic markers in body feathers to identify inter-individual differences in non-breeding areas of northern fulmars

Acknowledgments We thank Claire Deacon, Gareth Norton and Andrea Raab for help with laboratory work at the University of Aberdeen, and Barry Thornton and Gillian Martin for running stable isotope analysis at the James Hutton Institute. Thanks to all involved in the collection and processing of dead...

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Published in:Marine Biology
Main Authors: Quinn, Lucy R., Meharg, Andrew A., van Franeker, Jan A., Graham, Isla M., Thompson, Paul M.
Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2016
Subjects:
SDG 14 - Life Below Water
QH301 Biology
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
QH301
Faroe Islands
Iceland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2164/5774
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-2822-1
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Summary:Acknowledgments We thank Claire Deacon, Gareth Norton and Andrea Raab for help with laboratory work at the University of Aberdeen, and Barry Thornton and Gillian Martin for running stable isotope analysis at the James Hutton Institute. Thanks to all involved in the collection and processing of dead fulmars through the North Sea plastic pollution project at IMARES, with special thanks to Jens-Kjeld Jensen, Bergur Olsen and Elisa Bravo Rebolledo for samples from the Faroe Islands and Susanne Kühn for those from Iceland. Thanks to Orkney Islands Council for access to Eynhallow and to all the fieldworkers involved in deployment and recovery of the GLS tags. All ringing work was carried out under permit from the BTO, and feather sampling was carried out under licence from the Home Office. We are grateful to James Fox of Migrate Technologies for recovering data from GLS loggers which would not download, and Richard Phillips and Janet Silk of BAS for advice on GLS analysis. We thank Deborah Dawson of the NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility, University of Sheffield and Stuart Piertney of University of Aberdeen for molecular sexing of the fulmars. Lucy Quinn was supported by a NERC Studentship and additional funding to support fieldwork was gratefully received from Talisman Energy (UK) Ltd. We thank Yves Cherel and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on the manuscript. Peer reviewed

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