Description

A dataset containing values for three stable isotopes measured in the muscle tissue of four species of arctic fish. For use in examples.

Format

A data frame with 278 rows (observations) and 4 columns (species, delta^15N, delta^13C, and delta^34S).

Details

This dataset contains delta^15N, delta^13C, and delta^34S values for the following fish species:

• ARCS - Arctic Cisco (Coregonus autumnalis), n = 69

• BDWF - Broad Whitefish (Coregonus nasus), n = 71

• LKWF - Lake Whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis), n = 67

• LSCS - Least Cisco (Coregonus sardinella), n = 70

Fish were collected between 2007 and 2008 from an estuarine area of the Beaufort Sea, North and West of the Mackenzie Delta at Phillips Bay, Yukon Territory, Canada (69.28 N, 138.49 W).

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