Small scale camelid husbandry on the north coast of Peru (Virú Valley): Insight from stable isotope analysis

P Szpak, JF Millaire, CD White, FJ Longstaffe - Journal of Anthropological …, 2014 - Elsevier
This study presents carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions for bone collagen and
serially sampled hair from a large collection of South American camelids from two Early …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the isotopic niche: Isotopic variance, physiological incorporation, and the temporal dynamics of foraging

JD Yeakel, U Bhat, EA Elliott Smith… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Consumer foraging behaviors are dynamic, changing in response to prey availability,
seasonality, competition, and even the consumer's physiological state. The isotopic …

Consumer trophic positions respond variably to seasonally fluctuating environments

BC McMeans, T Kadoya, TK Pool, GW Holtgrieve… - Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of environmental seasonality on food web structure have been notoriously
understudied in empirical ecology. Here, we focus on seasonal changes in one key attribute …

[HTML][HTML] Not all jellyfish are equal: isotopic evidence for inter-and intraspecific variation in jellyfish trophic ecology

NEC Fleming, C Harrod, J Newton, JDR Houghton - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
Jellyfish are highly topical within studies of pelagic food-webs and there is a growing
realisation that their role is more complex than once thought. Efforts being made to include …

Into darkness: unravelling the structure of soil food webs

U Brose, S Scheu - Oikos, 2014 - JSTOR
Natural ecosystems contain many species that are connected by their feeding interactions
across multiple trophic levels to compose complex food webs. The structure of these food …

Zooplankton predators and prey: Body size and stable isotope to investigate the pelagic food web in a deep lake (Lake Iseo, Northern Italy)

B Leoni - Journal of Limnology, 2017 - boa.unimib.it
Seasonal changes in trophic position and food sources of deep subalpine lake (Lake Iseo,
Northern Italy) zooplankton taxa were investigated during the year 2011. Furthermore, it is …

[HTML][HTML] Inferences to estimate consumer's diet using stable isotopes: Insights from a dynamic mixing model

M Ballutaud, M Travers-Trolet, P Marchal, SF Dubois… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Stable isotope ratios are used to reconstruct animal diet in trophic ecology via mixing
models. Several assumptions of stable isotope mixing models are critical, ie, constant …

[HTML][HTML] Trophic niche overlap between invasive and indigenous fish in a northwest reservoir of China

J Wei, Z Nie, F Ji, L Qiu, J Shen - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Kizil reservoir in the Tarim River basin is an important habitat for the native
Schizothoracinae fish (including Aspiorhynchus laticeps, Schizothorax biddulphi …

A multivariate approach reveals diversity of ontogenetic niche shifts across taxonomic and functional groups

VHW Rudolf - Freshwater Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Shifts in the fundamental and realised niche of individuals during their ontogeny are
ubiquitous in nature, but we know little about what aspects of the niche change and how …

The effects of spatial scale and isoscape on consumer isotopic niche width

CJ Reddin, JH Bothwell, NE O'Connor… - Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The mean and variance of ecological variables are dependent on sampling attributes such
as the coverage of environmental heterogeneity (sampling extent) and spatial scale. Trophic …