stable isotope analyses
Simplifying and improving the extraction of nitrate from freshwater for stable isotope analyses
... This study (‘Improving and simplifying the extraction of nitrate from freshwater for stable isotope analyses’ by E. Minet, R. Goodhue, C. E. Coxon, R. M. Kalin and W. Meier-Augenstein) is aimed at ...
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The globalization of naval provisioning : ancient DNA and stable isotope analyses of stored cod from the wreck of the Mary Rose, AD 1545
... We collected a geographically wide-ranging set of archaeological control samples of cod bone (table 1). In some cases, we were able to use samples from the same location (or even the same individual bones) for both aDNA ...
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Depth segregation and diet disparity revealed by stable isotope analyses in sympatric herbivorous cichlids in Lake Tanganyika
... N and δ 13 C because of the variation in their photo- synthesis rate and in the availability of nutrients [43,46], and high temporal shifts in δ 13 C and δ 15 N in pelagic phytoplankton is also indicated in Lake Tangan- ...
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Stable isotope analyses of bat fur: Applications for investigating North American bat migration
... natural stable isotope heterogeneity among summer resident bats, and identifying a putative moulting ...strontium isotope analysis to these studies has the potential to further increase the precision ...
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Blue Crab Trophic Dynamics: Stable Isotope Analyses in Two North Carolina Estuaries
... expeditions. Stable isotope laboratory personnel, Bernie Genna (for his technical advice), Blaik Pulley, and ...on isotope mixing model and gut content ...
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The Diet Composition and Trophic Position of Introduced Prussian Carp Carassius gibelio (Bloch, 1782) and Native Fish Species in a Turkish River
... nitrogen stable isotope analyses were carried out to determine the diet composition and trophic position of the invasive species Carassius gibelio to help understand the potential impact of this ...
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2015-halffman-potter-etal
... and stable isotope analyses of fish remains at the Upward Sun River site lo- cated deep in the interior of Alaska, about 50 km downstream from the modern limit of major spawning areas ...
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Prey used by dingoes in a contested landscape: ecosystem service provider or biodiversity threat?
... and stable isotope analyses of hair from dingoes and potential prey ...habitats. Stable isotope analysis suggested that prey species sourced their nutrients primarily from open habitats ...
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Sympatric Atlantic puffins and razorbills show contrasting responses to adverse marine conditions during winter foraging within the North Sea
... of stable isotope analyses were carried out using a Thermo- Electron Delta XP Plus connected to a Costech ECS 4010 elemental analyser by NERC Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry Facility, East Kilbride, ...
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Trophic Level Influence on Stable Hydrogen Isotopic Composition of Bat Fur
... All stable isotope analyses were completed in the Laboratory for Stable Isotope Science at the University of Western ...Ontario. Stable isotope compositions are presented ...
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Movements and foraging of predators associated with mesophotic coral reefs and their potential for linking ecological habitats
... and stable isotope analyses to investigate the diel and seasonal movements of Galapagos sharks Carcharhinus galapagensis and giant trevally Caranx ignobilis captured from a mesophotic reef (depth: 50 ...
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Stable Isotope Studies of Fuel Oxygenate Biodegradation.
... fractionation analyses of important natural processes like plant photosynthesis (34), sulfate reduction (53, 54), nitrogen fixation (86, 166, 196), methanogenesis (18, 89), acetogenesis (48), aerobic oxidation of ...
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Hagfish feeding habits along a depth gradient inferred from stable isotopes
... The stable nitrogen isotope values confirm that Neomyxine biniplicata feeds relatively high up the trophic chain, although maybe not so high as to scavenge preferentially on carrion from apex pre - ...
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Speleothem stable isotope records from Eastern
... stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of carbonate deposits became the most frequently.. 78.[r] ...
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Relative and Absolute Dating Methods (CTG)
... • The half-life of a radioactive isotope is the time it takes for one half of the atoms of the original unstable “parent isotope” to decay to atoms of a new more stable “daughter. is[r] ...
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APPLICATION OF STABLE ISOTOPE SIGNATURES IN FOOD TRACEABILITY
... natural isotope variation such as carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen that holding unique signature that eventually use as geographic tracers or ...of stable isotope in food reflect several factors ...
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New Identity of the Kimberlite Melt: Constraints from Unaltered Diamondiferous Udachnaya East Pipe Kimberlite, Siberia, Russia
... Representative analyses of olivine inclusions and their host ...Representative analyses of low-Ca pyroxene inclusions, their host olivine, and associated high-Ca pyroxene and melt compositions ...
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Weaning at Anglo-Saxon raunds: Implications for changing breastfeeding practice in britain over two millennia.
... Weaning age is an important cultural variable, which has an impact on morbidity and mortality patterns, as well as fertility rates, within a population. However, osteological indicators of weaning and increased mortality ...
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STABLE ISOTOPES REVEAL A DISCONNECT BETWEEN BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES IN A SEASONALLY-DRY, SEMI-ARID WATERSHED
... 2.4 Isotopic Evidence for Two Water Worlds in Seasonally-Dry, Humid Catchments The relationships between oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in water described in Section 2.3 have been used to investigate the two water worlds ...
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Stable isotopes and dynamic diets : the Mesolithic-Neolithic dietary transition in terrestrial Central Europe
... (consumer stable isotope ratios, diet-consumer off-set, and stable isotopic ratio averages from food sources) to produce an estimate of the mean percentage each food type contributed to the diet, as ...
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