The prospects of poop: a review of past achievements and future possibilities in faecal isotope analysis

REB Reid, BE Crowley, RJ Haupt - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… What can the stable isotope values of human and animal faeces tell us? This often under-…
of faeces; the degree to which diet and faeces differ isotopically (called discrimination, Δ) for …

Can the carbon and nitrogen isotope values of offspring be used as a proxy for their mother's diet? Using foetal physiology to interpret bulk tissue and amino acid δ15 …

N Lübcker, JP Whiteman, SD Newsome… - Conservation …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… tissue nitrogen (δ 15 N) and carbon isotope values (δ 13 C) … that mother–offspring stable
isotope values are positively and … tissue isotopic discrimination as well as patterns in the δ 13 C

Stable isotopes reveal seasonal dietary responses to agroforestry in a venomous mammal, the Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus)

AM Mychajliw, JN Almonte, PA Martinez… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… elusive species, and stable isotopes of feces have been applied … We used fecal stable
isotopes (δ 13 C and δ 15 N) to … trophic discrimination (Δ diet–feces ) – the omnivorous meerkat (…

Diet analysis of Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus) based on stable isotope analysis

J Zha, Y Wu, Y An - Wildlife Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… -ranging deer by assessing their faecal carbon and nitrogen stable isotope values in May,
July, … Discrimination factors of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in meerkat feces. – PeerJ 5: …

[HTML][HTML] Stable isotopes of C and N differ in their ability to reconstruct diets of cattle fed C3C4 forage diets

…, JMB Vendramini, L Sollenberger, C Mackowiak… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
… In meerkat (Suricata suricatta) feces, δ 15 N enrichment occurred during transit through the
… indicating discrimination is not restricted to ruminant species alone 19 . Discrimination factors

Black-backed jackal niche analysis: a stable isotope approach to a generalist mesopredator

AE Botha, A le Roux - Mammalian Biology, 2022 - Springer
isotopic analysis (SIA), we conducted inter-population and jackal–prey isotopic comparisons
by analyzing the δ 13 CC 3 signals dominated our results despite the C 4 grasslands that …

Stable isotopes reveal the effects of maternal rank and infant age on weaning dynamics in wild chacma baboons

S Carboni, J Dezeure, G Cowlishaw, E Huchard… - Animal Behaviour, 2022 - Elsevier
Stable isotope signatures can be measured in any tissue, but it may be valuable to use hair
… In this study we used stable isotope analysis to investigate variation in weaning age in wild …

Investigating infant feeding development in wild chimpanzees using stable isotopes of hair keratin

C Curteanu - 2023 - papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca
fecal stable isotopes are sensitive to occasional sampling of solid food and show high
day-to-day variation, hair stable isotopesstable isotope analysis of nitrogen (δ15N) and carbon (…

Investigating infant feeding development in wild chimpanzees using stable isotopes of naturally shed hair

I Bădescu, C Curteanu, DW Sellen… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… the potential for fecal stable isotopes to measure infant feeding … Also, we combined fecal
stable isotope data with detailed … for technique used to discriminate infant from maternal hairs …

[HTML][HTML] Faecal analyses and alimentary tracers reveal the foraging ecology of two sympatric bats

S Moyo, DS Jacobs - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… We used visual inspection of prey remains in faeces as well as stable isotope and fatty
acid … To run the mixing models, we used a discrimination factor of ‘zero’ in all our models [72,73]. …