Isotopic ecology ten years after a call for more laboratory experiments

C Martínez del Rio, N Wolf, SA Carleton… - Biological …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
About 10 years ago, reviews of the use of stable isotopes in animal ecology predicted
explosive growth in this field and called for laboratory experiments to provide a mechanistic …

Converting isotope values to diet composition: the use of mixing models

DL Phillips - Journal of Mammalogy, 2012 - academic.oup.com
A common use of stable isotope analysis in mammalogy is to make inferences about diet
from isotope values (typically δ13C and δ15N) measured in tissues and food sources of a …

Using stable isotopes to estimate trophic position: models, methods, and assumptions

DM Post - Ecology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The stable isotopes of nitrogen (δ15N) and carbon (δ13C) provide powerful tools for
estimating the trophic positions of and carbon flow to consumers in food webs; however, the …

Sources of variation in consumer-diet δ15N enrichment: a meta-analysis

MA Vanderklift, S Ponsard - Oecologia, 2003 - Springer
Measurements of δ 15 N of consumers are usually higher than those of their diet. This
general pattern is widely used to make inferences about trophic relationships in ecological …

Studying animal niches using bulk stable isotope ratios: an updated synthesis

ON Shipley, P Matich - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
The development of the isotopic niche, an n-dimensional hypervolume (with n being the
number of isotopes) occupied by a population in delta space, has revolutionized the study of …

Stable isotope ratios as tracers in marine food webs: an update

RH Michener, L Kaufman - Stable isotopes in ecology and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Scientists concerned with organic matter flow and food web structures in aquatic systems
have increasingly realized the potential for using stable isotopes as both natural tracers and …

Seasonal changes in the importance of the source of organic matter to the diet of zooplankton in Loch Ness, as indicated by stable isotope analysis

J Grey, RI Jones, D Sleep - Limnology and Oceanography, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Seasonal variations in the stable isotope composition (d13C and d15C) of crustacean
zooplankton and their putative food sources in oligotrophic Loch Ness were recorded during …

Seasonal food web structures and sympagic–pelagic coupling in the European Arctic revealed by stable isotopes and a two-source food web model

JE Søreide, H Hop, ML Carroll, S Falk-Petersen… - Progress in …, 2006 - Elsevier
We simultaneously followed stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes in a two-
source food web model to determine trophic levels and the relative importance of open …

The prospects of poop: a review of past achievements and future possibilities in faecal isotope analysis

REB Reid, BE Crowley, RJ Haupt - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
What can the stable isotope values of human and animal faeces tell us? This often under‐
appreciated waste product is gaining recognition across a variety of disciplines. Faecal …

Variability in δ13C and δ15N trophic discrimination factors for teleost fishes: a meta-analysis of temperature and dietary effects

JA Canseco, EJ Niklitschek, C Harrod - Reviews in Fish Biology and …, 2022 - Springer
Stable isotope analysis (SIA) is widely used to assess animal diet and movements, requiring
accurate estimates of trophic discrimination factors (TDFs). Since TDFs are only available for …