Measuring carbon isotope ratios of microphytobenthos using compound-specific stable isotope analysis of phytol
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Measuring carbon isotope ratios of microphytobenthos using compound-specific stable isotope analysis of phytol
Carbon stable isotope analysis is one of the most common methods for validating theories about the role microphytobenthos (MPB) plays in estuarine food webs. However, difficulties extracting MPB from sediments to determine a pure isotope signature have hampered such studies. We have developed compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA) of phytol δ13C (δCphytol) as an accurate proxy for δ 13C of b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Limnology and Oceanography: Methods
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1541-5856
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2005.3.511