Use the backbone of your samples: fish vertebrae reduces biases associated with otoliths in seabird diet studies

A literature review showed that most recent conventional dietary studies of Procellariiformes have used otoliths alone to identify fish prey. Using data from a dietary study of Cory’s Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea, based on 673 regurgitates from adult birds, we quantitatively compared the contrib...

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Main Author: Alonso, Hany (author)
Other Authors: Granadeiro, José P. (author), Ramos, J. A. (author), Catry, Paulo (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Top predator
Prey identification
Fish bones
Diet sampling
Cory’s Shearwater
Calonectris diomedea
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10316/25758
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:estudogeral.sib.uc.pt:10316/25758

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http://hdl.handle.net/10316/25758

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