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- Title
Applications of stable isotope analysis in the trophic ecology studies of cephalopods.
- Authors
LI Yun-kai; GONG Yi; CHEN Xin-jun
- Abstract
Cephalopods play an important role in marine food webs, however, knowledge about their complex life history, especially their feeding ecology, remains limited. With the rapidly increasing use of stable isotope analysis (SIA) in ecology, it becomes a powerful tool and complement of traditional methods for investigating the trophic ecology and migration patterns of invertebrates. Here, after summarizing the current methods for trophic ecology investigation of cephalopods, applications of SIA in studying the trophic ecology of cephalopods were reviewed, including the key issues such as standardization of available tissues for SIA analyzing, diet shift and migration patterns of cephalopods, with the aim of advancing its application in the biology of cephalopods in the future.
- Subjects
STABLE isotope analysis; CEPHALOPODA; FOOD chains; HUMAN migration patterns; INVERTEBRATE behavior
- Publication
Yingyong Shengtai Xuebao, 2014, Vol 25, Issue 5, p1541
- ISSN
1001-9332
- Publication type
Article