Completing the picture: using vertebrae as well as otoliths in diet analysis reveals new preferred prey of great skuas

Abstract Knowledge of the diet of marine predators such as seabirds is fundamental to understanding the ecological cascades they may influence and the impact that environmental changes may have on them. Diet analysis of seabirds frequently relies on the identification of fish otoliths in pellets. Ho...
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Autor*in:

Quer, Susanna [verfasserIn]

Pierce, Graham John [verfasserIn]

Waggershauser, Cristian N. [verfasserIn]

Gilbert, Lucy [verfasserIn]

Format:

E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2024

Schlagwörter:

Fish

Otoliths

Vertebrae

Seabird diet

Pellets

Diet methods

Great skua

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© The Author(s) 2024

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: Marine biology - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1967, 171(2024), 7 vom: 30. Mai

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volume:171 ; year:2024 ; number:7 ; day:30 ; month:05

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DOI / URN:

10.1007/s00227-024-04441-2

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SPR056052030

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