Limited trophic partitioning among sympatric delphinids off a tropical oceanic atoll.

Understanding trophic relationships among marine predators in remote environments is challenging, but it is critical to understand community structure and dynamics. In this study, we used stable isotope analysis of skin biopsies to compare the isotopic, and thus, trophic niches of three sympatric de...

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Main Authors: Hillary Young, Katherine Nigro, Douglas J McCauley, Lisa T Ballance, Erin M Oleson, Simone Baumann-Pickering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5540553?pdf=render