A review of ecogeochemistry approaches to estimating movements of marine animals

KW McMahon, LL Hamady… - Limnology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ecogeochemistry—the application of geochemical techniques to fundamental questions in
population and community ecology—has been used in animal migration studies in terrestrial …

Trophic niche of squids: Insights from isotopic data in marine systems worldwide

J Navarro, M Coll, CJ Somes, RJ Olson - Deep Sea Research Part II …, 2013 - Elsevier
Cephalopods are an important prey resource for fishes, seabirds, and marine mammals, and
are also voracious predators on crustaceans, fishes, squid and zooplankton. Because of …

Using stable isotope biogeochemistry to study marine mammal ecology

SD Newsome, MT Clementz… - Marine Mammal Science, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope analysis (SIA) has emerged as a common tool in ecology and has proven
especially useful in the study of animal diet, habitat use, movement, and physiology. SIA has …

Feeding ecology of eastern North Pacific killer whales Orcinus orca from fatty acid, stable isotope, and organochlorine analyses of blubber biopsies

DP Herman, DG Burrows, PR Wade… - Marine Ecology …, 2005 - int-res.com
Blubber biopsy samples from eastern North Pacific killer whales Orcinus orca were analyzed
for fatty acids, carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes and organochlorine contaminants. Fatty …

Ecological, morphological and genetic divergence of sympatric North Atlantic killer whale populations

AD Foote, J Newton, SB Piertney, E Willerslev… - Molecular …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological divergence has a central role in speciation and is therefore an important source
of biodiversity. Studying the micro‐evolutionary processes of ecological diversification at its …

Trophic relationships in an Arctic food web and implications for trace metal transfer

LA Dehn, EH Follmann, DL Thomas… - Science of the Total …, 2006 - Elsevier
Tissues of subsistence-harvested Arctic mammals were analyzed for silver (Ag), cadmium
(Cd), and total mercury (THg). Muscle (or total body homogenates of potential fish and …

Feeding ecology of phocid seals and some walrus in the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic as determined by stomach contents and stable isotope analysis

LA Dehn, GG Sheffield, EH Follmann, LK Duffy… - Polar Biology, 2007 - Springer
Feeding habits of ringed (Phoca hispida), bearded (Erignathus barbatus), spotted (Phoca
largha) and ribbon (Phoca fasciata) seals and walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) were studied …

Diel echolocation activity of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) around North Sea offshore gas installations

VLG Todd, WD Pearse, NC Tregenza… - ICES Journal of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Todd, VLG, Pearse, WD, Tregenza, NC, Lepper, PA, and Todd, IB 2009. Diel
echolocation activity of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) around North Sea offshore …

Trophic relationships and mercury biomagnification in Brazilian tropical coastal food webs

TL Bisi, G Lepoint, A de Freitas Azevedo… - Ecological …, 2012 - Elsevier
The present study investigated trophic relationships and mercury flow through food webs of
three tropical coastal ecosystems: Guanabara, Sepetiba and Ilha Grande bays. The …

Food web dynamics in the Scotia Sea in summer: a stable isotope study

G Stowasser, A Atkinson, RAR McGill… - Deep Sea Research …, 2012 - Elsevier
The pelagic food web of the Scotia Sea was studied by analysing natural abundances of
nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes of primary producers and pelagic consumers, sampled …