Short communication, Note
Stable isotope composition of the serpulid Ficopomatus enigmaticus as environmental proxy
Sonja Lojen
; Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marijana Cukrov
; Croatian Biospeleological Society, Demetrova 1, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Neven Cukrov
; Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, 10 000 Zagreb
Abstract
Stable isotope composition of soft tissues and carbonate tubes of the serpulids F. enigmaticus and M. cavatica were used to estimate their food sources. Comparison of isotope fingerprints of adjacent estuarine and anchialine cave serpulids showed that they consume predominantly particulate organic matter of terrestrial origin.
Keywords
serpulid; carbon; oxygen; nitrogen; stable isotope
Hrčak ID:
87202
URI
Publication date:
30.9.2012.
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