Widespread variation in stable isotope trophic position estimates: patterns, causes, and potential consequences

MKK Kjeldgaard, JA Hewlett… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope analysis is one of the most widely used techniques to estimate trophic
position and provides fundamental insight into the structure and management of ecological …

Can stable isotope ratios provide for community-wide measures of trophic structure? Comment

DJ Hoeinghaus, SC Zeug - Ecology, 2008 - JSTOR
Over the last few decades, the use of stable isotope ratios in ecological studies has
increased greatly, most notably in the area of trophic ecology and food webs (Peterson and …

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CA Layman, DM Post - Ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last few decades, the use of stable isotope ratios in ecological studies has
increased greatly, most notably in the area of trophic ecology and food webs (Peterson and …

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 …

tRophicPosition, an r package for the Bayesian estimation of trophic position from consumer stable isotope ratios

C Quezada‐Romegialli, AL Jackson… - Methods in Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope analysis provides a powerful tool to identify the energy sources which fuel
consumers, to understand trophic interactions and to infer consumer trophic position (TP), an …

Stable isotopes are quantitative indicators of trophic niche

HH Marshall, R Inger, AL Jackson… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Hette‐Tronquart (2019, Ecol. Lett.) raises three concerns about our interpretation of
stable isotope data in Sheppard et al.(2018, Ecol. Lett., 21, 665). We feel that these concerns …

Can stable isotope ratios provide for community‐wide measures of trophic structure?

CA Layman, DA Arrington, CG Montaña, DM Post - Ecology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope ratios (typically of carbon and nitrogen) provide one representation of an
organism's trophic niche and are widely used to examine aspects of food web structure. Yet …

Trophic experiments to estimate isotope discrimination factors

S Caut, E Angulo, F Courchamp… - Journal of Applied …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In Caut, Angulo & Courchamp (2008a) rats were fed with experimental diets of distinct
isotopic values (δ13C and δ15N) in order to infer the discrimination factors. We showed …

Are stable isotope ratios suitable for describing niche partitioning and individual specialization?

P Matich, JJ Bizzarro, ON Shipley - Ecological Applications, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As concerns about anthropogenic and natural disturbance grow, understanding animal
resource use patterns has been increasingly prioritized to predict how changes in …

Applying stable isotopes to examine food‐web structure: an overview of analytical tools

CA Layman, MS Araujo, R Boucek… - Biological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope analysis has emerged as one of the primary means for examining the
structure and dynamics of food webs, and numerous analytical approaches are now …