Resolving temporal variation in vertebrate diets using naturally occurring stable isotopes

F Dalerum, A Angerbjörn - Oecologia, 2005 - Springer
Assessments of temporal variation in diets are important for our understanding of the
ecology of many vertebrates. Ratios of naturally occurring stable isotopes in animal tissues …

Global application of stable hydrogen and oxygen isotopes to wildlife forensics

GJ Bowen, LI Wassenaar, KA Hobson - Oecologia, 2005 - Springer
Stable isotopes are being increasingly used in wildlife forensics as means of determining
the origin and movement of animals. The heavy isotope content of precipitated water and …

Nitrogen balance and δ15N: why you're not what you eat during nutritional stress

BT Fuller, JL Fuller, NE Sage, DA Harris… - … Journal Devoted to …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
While past experiments on animals, birds, fish, and insects have shown changes in stable
isotope ratios due to nutritional stress, there has been little research on this topic in humans …

Carbon isotope fractionation between diet, breath CO2, and bioapatite in different mammals

BH Passey, TF Robinson, LK Ayliffe, TE Cerling… - Journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
The carbon isotope fractionation between tooth enamel bioapatite, breath CO2, and diet was
measured for voles, rabbits, pigs, and cattle on controlled diets. The measured fractionation …

Nutrition, physiology, and stable isotopes: new information from fasting and molting penguins

Y Cherel, KA Hobson, F Bailleul, R Groscolas - Ecology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotopes are increasingly used in animal ecology, but little attention has been paid to
the underlying physiological processes accounting for changes in 15N/14N and 13C/12C …

Stable isotopes in breath, blood, feces and feathers can indicate intra-individual changes in the diet of migratory songbirds

DW Podlesak, SR McWilliams, KA Hatch - Oecologia, 2005 - Springer
We used stable isotopes of C in breath, blood, feces and feathers to identify intra-individual
changes in diet and the timescale of diet changes in free-living songbirds at a stopover site …

Treatment methods for the determination of δ2H and δ18O of hair keratin by continuous‐flow isotope‐ratio mass spectrometry

GJ Bowen, L Chesson, K Nielson… - … Journal Devoted to …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The structural proteins that comprise∼ 90% of animal hair have the potential to record
environmentally and physiologically determined variation in δ2H and δ18O values of body …

Growth versus metabolic tissue replacement in mouse tissues determined by stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis

SE MacAvoy, SA Macko… - Canadian Journal of …, 2005 - cdnsciencepub.com
On présume que les signatures d'isotopes stables dans les tissus animaux reflètent le
réseau alimentaire local. Cependant, cette supposition peut être compliquée par le …

Inverse methods for estimating primary input signals from time-averaged isotope profiles

BH Passey, TE Cerling, GT Schuster… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2005 - Elsevier
Mammalian teeth are invaluable archives of ancient seasonality because they record along
their growth axes an isotopic record of temporal change in environment, plant diet, and …

Development of a stable-isotope constraint system for estuarine food-web models

PM Eldridge, LA Cifuentes, JE Kaldy - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2005 - int-res.com
Since the mid-1970s, stable carbon isotopes have been used extensively to address diverse
questions related to estuarine carbon cycling. Initially, the isotopic approach was used to …