Sources of variation in diets of harp and hooded seals estimated from quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (QFASA)

Agriculture & Biology

• Cystophora cristata 100%
• Pagophilus groenlandicus 93%
• Mallotus villosus 44%
• Amphipoda 42%
• fatty acids 41%
• diet 30%
• Argentina silus 18%
• Ammodytidae 16%
• predators 14%
• pelagic fish 13%
• Euphausiacea 13%
• ecological communities 13%
• continental shelf 13%
• forage fish 13%
• herring 12%
• breeding 12%
• nutritional adequacy 12%
• Atlantic Ocean 11%
• cod (fish) 11%
• interspecific competition 11%
• oceans 10%
• Arctic region 10%
• intraspecific variation 10%
• seals 10%
• adipose tissue 9%
• demographic statistics 9%
• niches 8%
• foraging 7%
• species diversity 7%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• fatty acid 54%
• diet 52%
• amphipod 38%
• breeding 16%
• analysis 15%
• predator 14%
• niche breadth 12%
• intraspecific variation 11%
• interspecific competition 10%
• ecological community 10%
• North Atlantic Ocean 9%
• shelf break 9%
• forage 9%
• continental shelf 7%
• tissue 6%
• sand 5%
• fish 5%
• ocean 4%