Isotopic ecology ten years after a call for more laboratory experiments

C Martínez del Rio, N Wolf, SA Carleton… - Biological …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
About 10 years ago, reviews of the use of stable isotopes in animal ecology predicted
explosive growth in this field and called for laboratory experiments to provide a mechanistic …

Uncovering trophic positions and food resources of soil animals using bulk natural stable isotope composition

AM Potapov, AV Tiunov, S Scheu - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the major importance of soil biota in nutrient and energy fluxes, interactions in soil
food webs are poorly understood. Here we provide an overview of recent advances in …

Emergent global patterns of ecosystem structure and function from a mechanistic general ecosystem model

MBJ Harfoot, T Newbold, DP Tittensor, S Emmott… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Anthropogenic activities are causing widespread degradation of ecosystems worldwide,
threatening the ecosystem services upon which all human life depends. Improved …

[HTML][HTML] Water level fluctuations and the ecosystem functioning of lakes

NJ Gownaris, KJ Rountos, L Kaufman, J Kolding… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2018 - Elsevier
Hydrological regimes are key drivers of productivity and structure in freshwater ecosystems
but are increasingly impacted by human activity. Using 17 published food web models of 13 …

Trophic position of consumers and size structure of food webs across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems

AM Potapov, U Brose, S Scheu… - The American …, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Do large organisms occupy higher trophic levels? Predators are often larger than their prey
in food chains, but empirical evidence for positive body mass–trophic level scaling for entire …

The understudied and underappreciated role of predation in the mortality of fish released from fishing gears

GD Raby, JR Packer, AJ Danylchuk… - Fish and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The assumption that animals released from fishing gears survive has frequently been
scrutinized by researchers in recent years. Mortality estimates from these research efforts …

Ecological-network models link diversity, structure and function in the plankton food-web

D D'Alelio, S Libralato, T Wyatt, M Ribera d'Alcalà - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
A planktonic food-web model including sixty-three functional nodes (representing auto-mixo-
and heterotrophs) was developed to integrate most trophic diversity present in the plankton …

The freshwater biome gradient framework: predicting macroscale properties based on latitude, altitude, and precipitation

WK Dodds, L Bruckerhoff, D Batzer, A Schechner… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding global ecological patterns and processes, from biogeochemical to
biogeographical, requires broad‐scale macrosystems context for comparing and contrasting …

Carbon and nitrogen isotope fractionation of amino acids in an avian marine predator, the gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua)

KW McMahon, MJ Polito, S Abel… - Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Compound‐specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA) of amino acids (AA) has rapidly become
a powerful tool in studies of food web architecture, resource use, and biogeochemical …

Nitrogen isotopic baselines and implications for estimating foraging habitat and trophic position of yellowfin tuna in the Indian and Pacific Oceans

A Lorrain, BS Graham, BN Popp, V Allain… - Deep Sea Research …, 2015 - Elsevier
Assessment of isotopic compositions at the base of food webs is a prerequisite for using
stable isotope analysis to assess foraging locations and trophic positions of marine …