Quantifying spatial variation in isotopic baselines reveals size-based feeding in a model estuarine predator: implications for trophic studies in dynamic ecotones

2021/06/19 by Philip Matich, Oliver N. Shipley, Ornella C. Weideli · 23 citations
Environmental Science · #Apex predator #Bay #Biology #Ecology #Ecosystem #Estuary #Fish Ecology and Management Studies #Food web #Isotope Analysis in Ecology #Isotope analysis #Marine and fisheries research #Oceanography #Spatial variability #Stable isotope ratio #Trophic cascade #Trophic level #δ13C #δ15N

paper · doi:10.1007/s00227-021-03920-0

published in Marine Biology 168(7) (Springer Science+Business Media)

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• USING STABLE ISOTOPES TO ESTIMATE TROPHIC POSITION: MODELS, METHODS, AND ASSUMPTIONS
• Stable isotopes and elasmobranchs: tissue types, methods, applications and assumptions

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