Assessing Avian Diets Using Stable Isotopes I: Turnover of13C in Tissues
- 1 February 1992
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 94 (1) , 181-188
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1368807
Abstract
Studies of birds that use stable isotopes as dietary tracers require estimates of how quickly stable isotopes in tissues are replaced by isotopes derived from t...This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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