Sources of primary production to Arctic bivalves identified using amino acid stable carbon isotope fingerprintingFootnote^*

* Originally presented at the 11th International Conference on the Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies (IsoEcol 2018), 30 July–3 August 2018, Universidad Andrés Bello, Viña del Mar, Chile.

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