Isotopic Composition of Blood of Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) of the Kara–Barents Sea Population
- 1 May 2018
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in Doklady Biological Sciences
- Vol. 480 (1) , 93-96
Abstract
The data on the content of carbon and nitrogen isotopes in the blood samples of polar bears obtained in the present study confirm that polar bears in the Taimyr region (and the Kara–Barents sea...Keywords
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