Trophic ecology of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) compared with that of other arctic marine biota as interpreted from carbon-, nitrogen-, and sulfur-isotope signatures

By P. Hoekstra, L. Dehn, J. George, K. Solomon, D. Muir, T. O'hara. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Feeding ecology of eastern North Pacific killer whales Orcinus orca from fatty acid, stable isotope, and organochlorine analyses of blubber biopsies (2005, background): “Sources: beluga whale (Hobson & Welch 1992, Hobson et al. 2002, Hoekstra et al. 2002); bowhead whale (Schell et al. 1989, Hobson et al. 2002, Hoekstra et al. 2002); fin whale (Gendron et al. 2001, Das et al. 2003b); Dall’s porpoise (Ohizumi & Miyazaki 2001); gray whale (Schell et al. 2000); harbor…”
• Regional and seasonal feeding by bowhead whales Balaena mysticetus as indicated by stable isotope ratios (2005, methodology): “Hoekstra et al. (2002) found an average muscle value of –21.6‰ in 1997 to 1999, whereas we obtained an average value of –20.7‰ from the same whales.”
• Exposure and effects assessment of persistent organohalogen contaminants in arctic wildlife and fish. (2010, background): “Hoekstra et al. (2002a) studied the Bering– Chukchi–Beaufort Sea population of bowhead whale muscle stable carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N), and sulfur (δ34S) isotope ratios.”
• Feeding ecology of phocid seals and some walrus in the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic as determined by stomach contents and stable isotope analysis (2006, background): “…more depleted carbon-13 values in the Beaufort Sea versus continental shelf waters of the Bering and Chukchi seas and a similar pattern can be detected in baleen and muscle of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) migrating between these two regions (Schell et al. 1989; Hoekstra et al. 2002).”
• Using stable isotope biogeochemistry to study marine mammal ecology (2010, methodology): “2, Schell et al. 1998, Hoekstra et al. 2002, Dehn et al. 2007) that shows a general increase in both 13C and 15N values with increasing trophic level.”