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A method of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis in assessment of the diet of birds of prey

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Original Russian Text © I.G. Pokrovsky, 2011, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2011, No. 8, pp. 1017–1019.

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Pokrovsky, I.G. A method of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis in assessment of the diet of birds of prey. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 39, 590–592 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359012070096

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