Assessing marine ecosystem complexity: isotopic integration of the trophic structure of seabird communities from the Southern Ocean

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Cherel, Yves, Carrouée, Antoine
• Other Authors: Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), APDRA Pisciculture Paysanne Massy, France
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: Habitat; Trophic position; Body size; Penguins; Procellariiformes; Stable isotopes; Antarctica; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Islands; Terre Adélie; Terre-Adélie; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03695830; https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14087

International audience Understanding the processes structuring communities is a fundamental goal in ecology and conservation biology. Seabirds are commonly used as sentinels of marine ecosystems, but there is a lack of quantitative information providing a synoptic view of their community structure a...