Stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen are mainstay tracers in diverse fields of ecology,
particularly in studies of food webs. Investigators are generally interested in tracing dietary C …

Coastal ecosystems, such as estuaries, salt marshes, mangroves and seagrass meadows,
comprise some of the world's most productive and ecologically significant ecosystems …

Coastal ecosystems such as estuaries, tidal wetlands and shallow coastal waters are often
highly productive and provide important habitats to many recreationally and commercially …

Connectivity links habitats in space and time. It is a key process that facilitates many life-
history functions of myriad species in a variety of contexts over a wide range of scales …

Stable isotopes have been extensively used to trace element cycles and their incorporation
into food webs. This chapter provides a brief introduction to the principles of using stable …

Human activities in coastal areas frequently cause loss of benthic macrophytes (eg
seagrasses) and concomitant increases in microalgal production through eutrophication …

Food web structure and major sources of primary production consumed by metafauna of
Mad Island Marsh, a coastal saltmarsh on the NW coast of the Gulf of Mexico, were …

We used stable C and N isotope ratios of tissues from 29 fish species from a large
subtropical lagoon in southern Brazil to examine spatial variability in isotopic composition …

Variation in the diet‐tissue fractionation of stable nitrogen isotopes (Δ15N) is a major source
of uncertainty in mixing model outputs and the calculation of trophic level in food web …

2002). Moreover, while some species use particular habitats within an area as 'nurseries', for
others nursery ground value is derived from the whole area (Aiken et al. 2002); in essence …