Deuterium‐and tritium‐labelled compounds: applications in the life sciences

J Atzrodt, V Derdau, WJ Kerr… - Angewandte chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen isotopes are unique tools for identifying and understanding biological and
chemical processes. Hydrogen isotope labelling allows for the traceless and direct …

Diet tracing in ecology: Method comparison and selection

JM Nielsen, EL Clare, B Hayden… - Methods in Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Determining diet is a key prerequisite for understanding species interactions, food web
structure and ecological dynamics. In recent years, there has been considerable …

Current methods and future directions in avian diet analysis

BD Hoenig, AM Snider, AM Forsman, KA Hobson… - The Auk, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Identifying the composition of avian diets is a critical step in characterizing the roles of birds
within ecosystems. However, because birds are a diverse taxonomic group with equally …

Mixoplankton and mixotrophy: future research priorities

NC Millette, RJ Gast, JY Luo, HV Moeller… - Journal of Plankton …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Phago-mixotrophy, the combination of photoautotrophy and phagotrophy in mixoplankton,
organisms that can combine both trophic strategies, have gained increasing attention over …

[HTML][HTML] Fingerprinting blue carbon: rationale and tools to determine the source of organic carbon in marine depositional environments

NR Geraldi, A Ortega, O Serrano… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Blue carbon is the organic carbon in oceanic and coastal ecosystems that is captured on
centennial to millennial timescales. Maintaining and increasing blue carbon is an integral …

Stable isotope tracers: Enriching our perspectives and questions on sources, fates, rates, and pathways of major elements in aquatic systems

PM Glibert, JJ Middelburg… - Limnology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope applications have evolved from simple characterizations of isotope
composition in organisms and organic matter, to highly complex methodologies on scales …

Assessment of the impact of dams on aquatic food webs using stable isotopes: Current progress and future challenges

F Guo, B Fry, K Yan, J Huang, Q Zhao, K O'Mara… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dams have disrupted natural river systems worldwide and although population and
community level effects on aquatic biota have been well documented, food web responses …

Trophic plasticity in a common reef‐building coral: Insights from δ13C analysis of essential amino acids

MD Fox, EA Elliott Smith, JE Smith… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Reef‐building corals are mixotrophic organisms that can obtain nutrition from endosymbiotic
microalgae (autotrophy) and particle capture (heterotrophy). Heterotrophic nutrition is highly …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond bulk δ15N: Combining a suite of stable isotopic measures improves the resolution of the food webs mediating contaminant signals across space, time …

KH Elliott, BM Braune, JE Elliott - Environment International, 2021 - Elsevier
Top predators are used as indicators of contaminant trends across space and time.
However, signals are integrated over complex food webs, and variation in diet may …

There's no harm in having too much: a comprehensive toolbox of methods in trophic ecology

N Majdi, N Hette-Tronquart, E Auclair, A Bec… - Food webs, 2018 - Elsevier
Trophic ecology is the study of feeding interactions and food acquisition by organisms. It
includes the causes and consequences of those behaviours at all levels of biological …