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 …

Dynamic energy budget theory restores coherence in biology

T Sousa, T Domingos… - … Transactions of the …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We present the state of the art of the development of dynamic energy budget theory, and its
expected developments in the near future within the molecular, physiological and ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Expanding the isotopic toolbox: applications of hydrogen and oxygen stable isotope ratios to food web studies

HB Vander Zanden, DX Soto, GJ Bowen… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The measurement of stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes in tissues of
organisms has formed the foundation of isotopic food web reconstructions, as these values …

SIDER: an R package for predicting trophic discrimination factors of consumers based on their ecology and phylogenetic relatedness

K Healy, T Guillerme, SBA Kelly, R Inger… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope mixing models (SIMMs) are an important tool used to study species' trophic
ecology. These models are dependent on, and sensitive to, the choice of trophic …

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 …

[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 …

Does lipid-correction introduce biases into isotopic mixing models? Implications for diet reconstruction studies

MC Arostegui, DE Schindler, GW Holtgrieve - Oecologia, 2019 - Springer
Carbon isotopes are commonly used in trophic ecology to estimate consumer diet
composition. This estimation is complicated by the fact that lipids exhibit a more depleted …

Metabolic ecology

MM Humphries, KS McCann - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2014 - JSTOR
1. Ecological theory that is grounded in metabolic currencies and constraints offers the
potential to link ecological outcomes to biophysical processes across multiple scales of …

Size, sex and individual‐level behaviour drive intrapopulation variation in cross‐ecosystem foraging of a top‐predator

JC Nifong, CA Layman… - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐bodied, top‐predators are often highly mobile, with the potential to provide important
linkages between spatially distinct food webs. What biological factors contribute to variation …

Diet energy density estimated from isotopes in predator hair associated with survival, habitat, and population dynamics

KD Rode, BD Taras, CA Stricker… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sea ice loss is fundamentally altering the Arctic marine environment. Yet there is a paucity of
data on the adaptability of food webs to ecosystem change, including predator–prey …