Polar bear diets and arctic marine food webs: insights from fatty acid analysis
Polar bear diets and arctic marine food webs: insights from fatty acid analysis
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Washington, DC: Ecological Society of America
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We used quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (QFASA) to examine the diets of 1738 individual polar bears (Ursus maritimus) sampled across the Canadian Arctic over a 30-year span. Polar bear foraging varied over large and small spatial and temporal scales, and between demographic groups. Diets in every subpopulation were dominated by ringed se...
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Polar bear diets and arctic marine food webs: insights from fatty acid analysis
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TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1890_07_1050_1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1890_07_1050_1
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0012-9615
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1557-7015
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10.1890/07-1050.1
