Body mass predicts isotope enrichment in herbivorous mammals

JV Tejada-Lara, BJ MacFadden… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… bioapatite enrichment for herbivores across a wide diversity of mammal clades (including
non-ungulates and a herbivore group never before assessed—sloths). Isotope enrichment was …

CH4/CO2 Ratios and Carbon Isotope Enrichment Between Diet and Breath in Herbivorous Mammals

TE Cerling, SM Bernasconi, LS Hofstetter… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… evaluate the isotope enrichment in mammals by considering … the diet to enamel isotope
enrichment, and especially to see … to enamel isotope enrichment factors for different mammals. …

An experimental study of carbon-isotope fractionation between diet, hair, and feces of mammalian herbivores

M Sponheimer, T Robinson, L Ayliffe… - Canadian Journal of …, 2003 - cdnsciencepub.com
mammalian taxa, fewer still in large mammalian herbivores. Here, we present data from the
first study of carbon-isotope fractionation between diet, hair, and feces in multiple herbivore

Nitrogen isotopes in mammalian herbivores: hair δ15N values from a controlled feeding study

M Sponheimer, T Robinson, L Ayliffe… - International Journal …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… tissue δ15N values can increase with age (Ambrose, 2000; Overman & Parrish, 2001), so
it is possible that the cattle (12 months old) used in this study might have been more enriched

Identifying aquatic habits of herbivorous mammals through stable isotope analysis

MT Clementz, PA Holroyd, PL Koch - Palaios, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
… The occurrence and abundance of large, semiaquatic herbivorous mammals today is low,
but our findings suggest this may not always have been the case. The identification of at least …

Isotopic paleoecology (δ13C, δ18O) of late Quaternary herbivorous mammal assemblages from southwestern Amazon

L Asevedo, A Ranzi, R Kalliola, M Pärssinen… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
… large-bodied herbivorous mammals are … enriched in 13 C compared to the plants. Previous
studies demonstrated that medium-to large-bodied herbivorous mammals had an enrichment

Within-population isotopic niche variability in savanna mammals: disparity between carnivores and herbivores

D Codron, J Codron, M Sponheimer… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
… That herbivores appear to lack individual diet separation to a large degree does not mean
carnivores will necessarily be individual specialists. It does mean, however, that carnivores …

Isotopic enrichment in herbivorous insects: a comparative field-based study of variation

KO Spence, JA Rosenheim - Oecologia, 2005 - Springer
Animals feeding on poor diets with high C:N … isotopic enrichment for a particular
herbivore–plant pair as the basic unit of replication. However for two genera of our sampled …

The isotopic ecology of East African mammals

SH Ambrose, MJ DeNiro - Oecologia, 1986 - Springer
… a 5.6 per mil enrichment in fi~ 5N values between the herbivore and carnivore trophic levels.
It … Our results indicate that the carbon isotopic composition of herbivore and carnivore bone …

Applications of stable isotope techniques to the ecology of mammals

K Crawford, RA Mcdonald, S Bearhop - Mammal Review, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… inshore sources tend to have enriched stable carbon isotope ratios in comparison with offshore
… Individual specialization has been shown within a generalist herbivore, the dusky-footed …