The nitrogen cycle: A review of isotope effects and isotope modeling approaches

TRA Denk, J Mohn, C Decock… - Soil Biology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The nitrogen (N) cycle involves a set of N compounds transformed by plants and microbes.
Some of these N compounds, such as nitrous oxide (N 2 O) or nitrate (NO 3−), are …

Embracing variability in amino acid δ15N fractionation: mechanisms, implications, and applications for trophic ecology

KW McMahon, MD McCarthy - Ecosphere, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Compound‐specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA) of individual amino acids (AA s) has
become a powerful analytical tool in trophic ecology. Heavily fractionating “trophic” AA s (eg …

Advances in the application of amino acid nitrogen isotopic analysis in ecological and biogeochemical studies

N Ohkouchi, Y Chikaraishi, HG Close, B Fry… - Organic …, 2017 - Elsevier
Compound-specific isotopic analysis of amino acids (CSIA-AA) has emerged in the last
decade as a powerful approach for tracing the origins and fate of nitrogen in ecological and …

Dietary reconstruction, mobility, and the analysis of ancient skeletal tissues: Expanding the prospects of stable isotope research in archaeology

CA Makarewicz, J Sealy - Journal of archaeological science, 2015 - Elsevier
The use of stable isotope ratio analysis in archaeology has exploded over the past few
decades to the point where it is now an established tool that is routinely used to investigate …

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 …

Using isotope fractionation of nitrate-nitrogen and nitrate-oxygen for evaluation of microbial denitrification in a sandy aquifer

J Böttcher, O Strebel, S Voerkelius, HL Schmidt - Journal of Hydrology, 1990 - Elsevier
The nitrate input into the groundwater from forest and agricultural land in the 'Fuhrberger
Feld'catchment area is virtually completely degraded by microbial denitrification in the …

3. Fractionation of carbon and hydrogen isotopes in biosynthetic processes

JM Hayes - Stable isotope geochemistry, 2018 - degruyter.com
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Depletion of 13C in lignin and its implications for stable carbon isotope studies

R Benner, ML Fogel, EK Sprague, RE Hodson - Nature, 1987 - nature.com
Stable carbon isotope compositions of organic matter are now widely used to trace carbon
flow in ecosystems, and have been instrumental in sha** current perceptions of the …

Preservation of organic matter and alteration of its carbon and nitrogen isotope composition during simulated and in situ early sedimentary diagenesis

MF Lehmann, SM Bernasconi, A Barbieri… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2002 - Elsevier
The carbon and nitrogen isotope composition of organic matter has been widely used to
trace biogeochemical processes in marine and lacustrine environments. In order to …

Stable isotopes in animal ecology: assumptions, caveats, and a call for more laboratory experiments

LZ Gannes, DM O'Brien, CM Del Rio - Ecology, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
For decades, plant ecologists have used naturally occurring stable isotope ratios to
disentangle ecological and physiological processes. The methodology can also become a …