Stable Isotope Analysis of Marbled Murrelets: Evidence for Freshwater Feeding and Determination of Trophic Level

1 November 1990

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications

Vol. 92 (4) , 897
https://doi.org/10.2307/1368725

Abstract

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses were performed on tissues of 21 Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus) collected in Barkley Sound (n = 18) an...

Keywords

NITROGEN
TISSUES
FEEDING
SOUND
ISOTOPE ANALYSIS
MURRELETS
ISOTOPIC
BRACHYRAMPHUS
MARMORATUS
MARBLED