Stable isotopes and a changing world

KA Hobson - Oecologia, 2023 - Springer
The measurement of naturally occurring stable isotope ratios of the light elements (C, N, H,
O, S) in animal tissues and associated organic and inorganic fractions of associated …

A trans-oceanic flight of over 4,200 km by painted lady butterflies

T Suchan, CP Bataille, MS Reich… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The extent of aerial flows of insects circulating around the planet and their impact on
ecosystems and biogeography remain enigmatic because of methodological challenges …

Trends and progress in studying butterfly migration

S Chowdhury, MP Zalucki, T Amano… - Integrative …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Several hundred butterfly species show some form of migratory behaviour. Here we identify
how the methodologies available for studying butterfly migration have changed over time …

The Afrotropical breeding grounds of the Palearctic-African migratory painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui)

G Talavera, A García-Berro, VNK Talla, I Ng'iru… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Migratory insects are key players in ecosystem functioning and services, but their
spatiotemporal distributions are typically poorly known. Ecological niche modeling (ENM) …

Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade

X Wang, G Bocksberger, M Arandjelovic… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analysis with reference to strontium isotope
landscapes (Sr isoscapes) allows reconstructing mobility and migration in archaeology …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing Zr-doped MC-ICP-MS sample-standard bracketing to simultaneously determine 87Sr/86Sr and δ88Sr for high sample-throughput

CT Gerritzen, S Goderis, HF James… - Spectrochimica Acta Part B …, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, the increasing demand for extensive strontium (Sr) datasets across various
scientific fields has prompted the development of fast, precise, and reliable protocols. These …

[HTML][HTML] A bioavailable strontium isoscape of Angola with implications for the archaeology of the transatlantic slave trade

X Wang, G Bocksberger, T Lautenschläger… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The region of present-day Angola was one of the main areas from which millions of
enslaved Africans were abducted and forced to migrate to the Americas during the …

Insights into natal origins of migratory Nearctic hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae): new evidence from stable isotope (δ2H) assignment analyses

CS Clem, KA Hobson, AN Harmon‐Threatt - Ecography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) are an important group of insects that provide a multitude of
key ecosystem services including pollination and biological control, yet many of their major …

Population dynamics and seasonal migration patterns of Spodoptera exigua in northern China based on 11 years of monitoring data

HT Ma, LH Zhou, H Tan, XZ **u, JY Wang, XY Wang - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Background The beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Hübner), is an important agricultural
pest worldwide that has caused serious economic losses in the main crop-producing areas …

Temporal stability of δ2H in insect tissues: Implications for isotope-based geographic assignments

EE Lindroos, CP Bataille, PW Holder… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Hydrogen isotope geolocation of insects is based on the assumption that the chitin in the
wings of adult migratory insects preserves the hydrogen isotope composition (δ 2H) of the …