Expanding the isotopic toolbox: applications of hydrogen and oxygen stable isotope ratios to food web studies

HB Vander Zanden, DX Soto, GJ Bowen… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The measurement of stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes in tissues of
organisms has formed the foundation of isotopic food web reconstructions, as these values …

Fingerprinting blue carbon: rationale and tools to determine the source of organic carbon in marine depositional environments

NR Geraldi, A Ortega, O Serrano… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Blue carbon is the organic carbon in oceanic and coastal ecosystems that is captured on
centennial to millennial timescales. Maintaining and increasing blue carbon is an integral …

[HTML][HTML] The world's largest coastal deoxygenation zone is not anthropogenically driven

GVM Gupta, R Jyothibabu, CV Ramu… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The growing number of oxygen-deficient coastal zones around the world and their impacts
on marine life has always been a controversial issue as their development is largely …

Neuroprotective compounds from marine invertebrates

B Rivai, AK Umar - Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied …, 2023 - Springer
Background Neuroinflammation is a key pathological feature of a wide variety of
neurological disorders, including Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, and …

Resource polygon geometry predicts Bayesian stable isotope mixing model bias

MT Brett - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2014 - int-res.com
Bayesian mixing model analyses of resource and consumer stable isotope composition are
commonly used to infer elemental, energetic, and trophic pathways in aquatic and terrestrial …

Non‐seagrass carbon contributions to seagrass sediment blue carbon

MPJ Oreska, GM Wilkinson… - Limnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐seagrass sources account for∼ 50% of the sediment organic carbon (SOC) in many
seagrass beds, a fraction that may derive from external organic matter (OM) advected into …

Sources of sediment carbon sequestered in restored seagrass meadows

JT Greiner, GM Wilkinson, KJ McGlathery… - … Ecology Progress Series, 2016 - int-res.com
Seagrass meadows accumulate carbon in sediments as a result of in situ production and
sedimentation of particulate organic matter (OM). We quantified the contribution of OM …

Broad sampling and diverse biomarkers allow characterization of nearshore particulate organic matter

AT Lowe, AWE Galloway, JS Yeung, MN Dethier… - Oikos, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Suspended particulate organic matter (POM) is a primary food source for benthic and
pelagic consumers in aquatic and marine ecosystems. POM is potentially composed of …

Deuterium as a food source tracer: Sensitivity to environmental water, lipid content, and hydrogen exchange

GM Wilkinson, JJ Cole, ML Pace - … and Oceanography: Methods, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen stable isotopes (δ2H) are used for quantifying resources supporting food webs.
However, application of δ2H in mixing models requires;(1) correction for environmental …

An assessment of assumptions and uncertainty in deuterium‐based estimates of terrestrial subsidies to aquatic consumers

MT Brett, GW Holtgrieve, DE Schindler - Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The deuterium ratio (2H/1H) in tissue is often used to estimate terrestrial subsidies
to aquatic consumers because of strongly differentiated values between terrestrial and …