Articles | Volume 9, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-3663-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-3663-2012
Research article
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25 Sep 2012
Research article |  | 25 Sep 2012

An isotopic (Δ14C, δ13C, and δ15N) investigation of the composition of particulate organic matter and zooplankton food sources in Lake Superior and across a size-gradient of aquatic systems

P. K. Zigah, E. C. Minor, J. P. Werne, and S. Leigh McCallister

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