The power and pitfalls of amino acid carbon stable isotopes for tracing origin and use of basal resources in food webs

K Vane, MRD Cobain, T Larsen - Ecological Monographs, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Natural and anthropogenic stressors alter the composition, biomass, and nutritional quality
of primary producers and microorganisms, the basal organisms that synthesize the …

Omnivorous summer feeding by juvenile Antarctic krill in coastal waters

JA Conroy, DK Steinberg, SC Nardelli… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Antarctic krill Euphausia superba is often considered an herbivore but is
notable for its trophic flexibility, which includes feeding on protistan and metazoan …

[HTML][HTML] On precision and accuracy: A review of the state of compound-specific isotope analysis of amino acids

ALN Nash, SD Newsome, KW McMahon - Organic Geochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Compound specific stable isotope analysis of amino acids (CSIA-AA) is a practice that
allows for in-depth studies of many different physiological, ecological, and environmental …

Temporal dynamics in zooplankton δ13C and δ15N isoscapes for the North Atlantic Ocean: Decadal cycles, seasonality, and implications for predator ecology

B Espinasse, A Sturbois, SL Basedow… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The limited amount of ecological data covering offshore parts of the ocean impedes our
ability to understand and anticipate the impact of anthropogenic stressors on pelagic marine …

Optimizing immunostaining of archival fish samples to enhance museum collection potential

GT Kwan, BW Frable, AR Thompson, M Tresguerres - Acta Histochemica, 2022 - Elsevier
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is a powerful biochemical technique that uses antibodies to
specifically label and visualize proteins of interests within biological samples. However, fluid …

Seasonal dynamics of midwater zooplankton and relation to particle cycling in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

CCS Hannides, BN Popp, HG Close… - Progress in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Midwater zooplankton are major agents of biogeochemical transformation in the open
ocean; however their characteristics and activity remain poorly known. Here we evaluate …

Resilience of plankton trophic structure to an eddy-stimulated diatom bloom in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

M Décima, MR Landry - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2020 - int-res.com
We investigated the response of an open-ocean plankton food web to a major ecosystem
perturbation event, the Hawaiian lee cyclonic eddy Opal, using compound-specific isotopic …

Effects of long‐term ethanol storage on muscle architecture

KC Leonard, N Worden, ML Boettcher… - The Anatomical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Muscle excursion and force potential can be estimated from architectural variables,
including mass, volume, fascicle length, and density. These have been collected from fresh …

Effects of ethanol preservation and formalin fixation on amino acid stable isotope analysis (δ13C and δ15N) and its ecological applications

KWJ Chua, JH Liew, KH Shin… - Limnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Compound‐specific isotope analysis of amino acids (CSIA‐AA) is a promising nascent
technique that alleviates many shortcomings of conventional bulk‐tissue stable isotope …

Errors associated with compound‐specific δ15N analysis of amino acids in preserved fish samples purified by high‐pressure liquid chromatography

R Swalethorp, L Aluwihare… - Limnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Compound‐specific isotopic analysis of amino acids (CSIA‐AA) is increasingly used in
ecological and biogeochemical studies tracking the origin and fate of nitrogen (N). Its …