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 …

On the use of stable isotopes in trophic ecology

WJ Boecklen, CT Yarnes, BA Cook… - Annual review of …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Stable isotope analysis (SIA) has proven to be a useful tool in reconstructing diets,
characterizing trophic relationships, elucidating patterns of resource allocation, and …

Comparing isotopic niche widths among and within communities: SIBER–Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses in R

AL Jackson, R Inger, AC Parnell… - Journal of Animal …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The use of stable isotope data to infer characteristics of community structure and niche width
of community members has become increasingly common. Although these developments …

[HTML][HTML] Population-level metrics of trophic structure based on stable isotopes and their application to invasion ecology

MC Jackson, I Donohue, AL Jackson, JR Britton… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Biological invasions are a significant driver of human-induced global change and many
ecosystems sustain sympatric invaders. Interactions occurring among these invaders have …

[HTML][HTML] An empirical evaluation of the utility of convex hull and standard ellipse areas for assessing population niche widths from stable isotope data

J Syväranta, A Lensu, TJ Marjomäki, S Oksanen… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Stable isotope analyses are increasingly employed to characterise population niche widths.
The convex hull area (TA) in a δ13C–δ15N biplot has been used as a measure of isotopic …

A general hypothesis‐testing framework for stable isotope ratios in ecological studies

TF Turner, ML Collyer, TJ Krabbenhoft - Ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a framework for hypothesis‐testing of stable isotope ratios in ecological studies.
Statistical procedures are based on analysis of nested linear models and a residual …

Quantifying the multiple facets of isotopic diversity: New metrics for stable isotope ecology

J Cucherousset, S Villéger - Ecological Indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
Stable isotope analyses have emerged as an insightful tool for ecologists, with quantitative
methods being developed to analyse data at the population, community and food web …

Tools for quantifying isotopic niche space and dietary variation at the individual and population level

SD Newsome, JD Yeakel, PV Wheatley… - Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Ecologists are increasingly using stable isotope analysis to inform questions about variation
in resource and habitat use from the individual to community level. In this study we …

rKIN: Kernel‐based method for estimating isotopic niche size and overlap

CA Eckrich, SE Albeke, EA Flaherty… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The isotopic niche of consumers represents biologically relevant information on resource
and habitat use. Several tools have been developed to quantify niche size and overlap …

Trophic niche size and overlap decreases with increasing ecosystem productivity

JS Lesser, WR James, CD Stallings, RM Wilson… - Oikos, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The production and transfer of biomass through trophic relationships is a core ecosystem
function. The movement of energy through the food web is mediated by organisms operating …