Applying stable isotopes to examine food‐web structure: an overview of analytical tools

CA Layman, MS Araujo, R Boucek… - Biological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope analysis has emerged as one of the primary means for examining the
structure and dynamics of food webs, and numerous analytical approaches are now …

A guide to using compound-specific stable isotope analysis to study the fates of molecules in organisms and ecosystems

JP Whiteman, EA Elliott Smith, AC Besser… - Diversity, 2019 - mdpi.com
The measurement of stable isotopes in 'bulk'animal and plant tissues (eg, muscle or leaf)
has become an important tool for studies of functional diversity from organismal to …

Biomagnification of mercury in aquatic food webs: a worldwide meta-analysis

RA Lavoie, TD Jardine, MM Chumchal… - … science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
The slope of the simple linear regression between log10 transformed mercury (Hg)
concentration and stable nitrogen isotope values (δ15N), hereafter called trophic …

Using stable isotopes to estimate trophic position: models, methods, and assumptions

DM Post - Ecology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The stable isotopes of nitrogen (δ15N) and carbon (δ13C) provide powerful tools for
estimating the trophic positions of and carbon flow to consumers in food webs; however, the …

Incorporating uncertainty and prior information into stable isotope mixing models

JW Moore, BX Semmens - Ecology letters, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotopes are a powerful tool for ecologists, often used to assess contributions of
different sources to a mixture (eg prey to a consumer). Mixing models use stable isotope …

Primary Consumer δ 13C and δ 15N and the Trophic Position of Aquatic Consumers

MJ Vander Zanden, JB Rasmussen - Ecology, 1999 - JSTOR
Stable nitrogen isotope signatures (δ 15 N) are increasingly used to infer the trophic position
of consumers in food web studies. Interpreting the δ 15 N of consumers relative to the δ 15 N …

Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of emerging organophosphate flame retardants in the marine food webs of Laizhou Bay, North China

TG Bekele, H Zhao, Q Wang… - Environmental Science & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Despite the increase in production, usage, and discharge of organophosphate flame
retardants (OPFRs), little information is available about their bioaccumulation and trophic …

Stable isotope evidence for the food web consequences of species invasions in lakes

MJ Vander Zanden, JM Casselman, JB Rasmussen - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
Species invasions pose a serious threat to biodiversity and native ecosystems,; however,
predicting and quantifying the impacts of invasive species has proven problematic,,,. Here …

Comparing trophic position of freshwater fish calculated using stable nitrogen isotope ratios (δ15N) and literature dietary data

MJ Vander Zanden, G Cabana… - Canadian Journal of …, 1997 - cdnsciencepub.com
Les rapports d'un isotope stable de l'azote (delta 15N) sont couramment utilisés pour
représenter la structure trophique des systèmes aquatiques; pourtant, la capacité du delta …

From Greenland to green lakes: cultural eutrophication and the loss of benthic pathways in lakes

Y Vadeboncoeur, E Jeppesen… - Limnology and …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Benthic community responses to lake eutrophication are poorly understood relative to
pelagic responses. We compared phytoplankton and periphyton productivity along a …