Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing
nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground …

Stable isotope analysis has emerged as one of the primary means for examining the
structure and dynamics of food webs, and numerous analytical approaches are now …

The use of stable isotope data to infer characteristics of community structure and niche width
of community members has become increasingly common. Although these developments …

Considerable progress has been made in the development of statistical tools to quantify
trophic relationships using stable isotope ratios, including tools that address size and …

Vertebrates harbour diverse communities of symbiotic gut microbes. Host diet is known to
alter microbiota composition, implying that dietary treatments might alleviate diseases …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 948–958 Abstract Many generalist populations are composed of
specialised individuals, whose niches are small subsets of the population niche. This …

Every living creature on Earth is made of atoms of the various bioelements that are
harnessed in the construction of molecules, tissues, organisms, and communities, as we …

Stable isotopes are a powerful tool for ecologists, often used to assess contributions of
different sources to a mixture (eg prey to a consumer). Mixing models use stable isotope …

Vertebrates' diets profoundly influence the composition of symbiotic gut microbial
communities. Studies documenting diet‐microbiota associations typically focus on univariate …

In the last decade, an increasing number of papers testifies a renewed interest in the topic of
individual specialization in resource use and its implication at higher levels of ecological …