Intrinsic and extrinsic sources of variation in the diets of harp and hooded seals revealed by fatty acid profiles

Agriculture & Biology

• age structure 12%
• Atlantic Ocean 14%
• blubber 16%
• continental shelf 15%
• Cystophora cristata 100%
• diet 30%
• fatty acid composition 46%
• fatty acids 8%
• gender 21%
• niches 20%
• oceans 12%
• Pagophilus groenlandicus 93%
• polymorphism 12%
• predators 8%
• sampling 4%
• seals 24%
• sexual dimorphism 12%
• testing 4%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• age class 11%
• continental shelf 9%
• diet 52%
• distribution 3%
• diving 11%
• diving behavior 14%
• effect 2%
• fatty acid 54%
• niche 18%
• North Atlantic Ocean 11%
• ocean 5%
• polymorphism 10%
• predator 8%
• resource 5%
• sampling 5%
• sexual dimorphism 13%
• shelf break 11%
• test 3%