Non-parametric analysis of the spatio-temporal variability in the fatty-acid profiles among Greenland sharks

• Published in: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
• Main Authors: Steeves, Holly N., McMeans, Bailey, Field, Chris, Stewart, Connie, Arts, Michael T., Fisk, Aaron T., Lydersen, Christian, Kovacs, Kit M., Macneil, M. Aaron
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2018
• Subjects: Ecological tracers; fatty acid signatures; polar ecology; predator diets; quantifying change; Arctic; Svalbard; Canada; Greenland; Norway; Cumberland Sound; Global warming; Sea ice; Somniosus microcephalus
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/320; https://doi.org/10.1017/S002531541600148X

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