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- Title
Studying Animal Diets In Situ Using Portable Stable Isotope Analyzers.
- Authors
Voigt, Christian C.
- Abstract
I assessed the usefulness of a portable stable isotope analyzer for assigning animals to food chains of tropical ecosystems. Based on the stable carbon isotope ratio of the animals’ breath (δ13C breath), it was possible to distinguish between the isotopically distinct food chains of fruit-eating bats and blood-eating vampire bats. Portable instruments for the analysis of δ13C breath may improve our ability to quantify animal diets, because they are accurate and cheap, and most importantly they can be used in situ.
- Subjects
ANIMAL feeding behavior; ANIMAL nutrition; BATS; FOOD chains; PORTABLE computerized instruments; STABLE isotopes
- Publication
Biotropica, 2009, Vol 41, Issue 3, p271
- ISSN
0006-3606
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00509.x