Fatty acid composition suggests leopard seals are no longer apex predators in the WAP ecosystem.
The leopard seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, is an apex predator that has a key role as consumer within the Antarctic ecosystem. Due to the constraints of traditional methods for studying feeding ecology fatty acids (FAs) analysis of blubber has become a useful tool for determining diet since it provides an...
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_45987 https://doi.org/10.13140/rg.2.2.14297.52321 |