Stable Isotope Tissue Sampling, Preparation and Analysis
Recent advances in the application of stable isotope ratio analysis in forensic chemistry
... for analysis and interpretation, which led to ‘DNA wars’ in courts, scientific journals, and in the ...of analysis and accredited ...as preparation for legal ‘acceptance’ of the ...
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Simultaneous stable isotope analysis of methane and nitrous oxide on ice core samples
... 2.2 Measurement procedure 2.2.1 Sample preparation and evacuation of the pot The ice sample is cut with a band saw to the desired size and shape. Subsequently, ∼ 2 mm of the surface of the sample is removed by ...
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Inter laboratory comparison of cryogenic water extraction systems for stable isotope analysis of soil water
... Savin and Epstein (1970) also observed that atmospheric vapor exchanged isotopically with interlayer water (almost completely) and Aggarwal et al. (2004) showed that this can occur within hours. This demonstrated that ...
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Stable Isotope Sourcing Using Sampling
... Abstract Stable isotope mixing models are used to estimate proportional contributions of sources to a mix- ture, such as in the analysis of animal diets, plant nutrient use, geochemistry, pollution, ...
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Dietary Response of Sympatric Deer to Fire Using Stable Isotope Analysis of Liver Tissue
... liver tissue required lethal removal of deer to determine influences of forage quality from burned and unburned habitats on the two deer ...in tissue that reflect dietary characteristics would enhance ...
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Dietery Response of Sympatric Deer to Fire Using Stable ISotope Analysis of Liver Tissue
... liver tissue required lethal removal of deer to determine influences of forage quality from burned and unburned habitats on the two deer ...in tissue that reflect dietary characteristics would enhance ...
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Effects of tissue preservation on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope signatures in syngnathid fishes and prey
... Abstract: Isotopic stable analysis (SIA) is a powerful tool in the assessment of different types of ecological and physiological studies. For that, different preservative methods for the samples are ...
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An analytical system for stable isotope analysis on carbon monoxide using continuous-flow isotope-ratio mass spectrometry
... multi- sampling unit is controlled by LabView software, which specifically controls V 1 , V 2 , the flow rate of the mass flow controller, the sample injection time, the sample flush time, and the number of times ...
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Stable carbon isotope analysis of Cedrus atlantica pollen as an indicator of moisture availability
... plant tissue for Cedrus atlantica, this technique could be adapted to use pollen as a tool for mapping precipitation and drought stress in place of tree- ...
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Using stable isotope analysis to study skin mucus exudation and renewal in fish
... compartmental tissue, but a dynamic fluid, and this makes it difficult to ...to stable isotope cross-contamination from contact with faecal content or other ...of stable isotopes when studying ...
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A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS FOR SEABIRD BIOLOGISTS: APPROACHES, CAUTIONS AND CAVEATS
... of stable-isotope analysis as applied to ecology (species-specific discrimination factors, within-system comparisons, prey sampling, changes in isotopic ratios over time and biological or ...
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Stable Isotope Studies of Fuel Oxygenate Biodegradation.
... their analysis summarizes the detection frequencies of 60 volatile organic compounds in ambient groundwater, which is defined as groundwater in areas with no known point sources of contamination prior to ...
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Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope turnover rates and diet–tissue discrimination in Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)
... nitrogen stable isotope analysis of manatee epidermal tissue is difficult, if not impossible, to use when assessing short- term or recent changes in diet and habitat use because of slow ...
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Archives of human-dog relationships: Genetic and stable isotope analysis of Arctic fur clothing
... Despite the presence of biocides used to protect the fur clothing during storage, we extracted well-preserved DNA using a minimally-invasive sampling protocol. Unexpectedly, the mtDNA genomes of one-third of the ...
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My Stable Isotope Journey in Biogeochemistry, Geoecology, and Astrobiology
... because stable isotope biogeochemistry was becoming increasingly accepted by the ecological ...a stable isotope ecologist is to learn as much as I can about modern ecosystems on a global scale ...
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Stable isotope analysis of dermis and the foraging behavior of whale sharks at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia
... shark tissue when different tissue discrimination factors were applied highlights the complexities involved in interpreting stable isotope data for these large migratory animals when the ...
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System for High Throughput Water Extraction from Soil Material for Stable Isotope Analysis of Water
... of stable isotope of water in ecological studies is the time that is required to extract water from soil and plant ...Water Isotope Analyzer is capable of analyzing all of the samples that are ...
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First Stable Isotope Analysis of Asiatic Wild Ass Tail Hair from the Mongolian Gobi
... Acknowledgement We are grateful to Chris Walzer for capture of wild asses and various wild ass discussions. The following people further helped to develop the ideas about study design and sampling: oyunsaikhan ...
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High resolution stable isotope analysis of a Tasmanian speleothem
... oxygen isotope values suggests that temperature warmed rapidly by approximately 2 ° -3 ° C between 100 and 97 ...carbon isotope values berween 10 I and 98 ka indicates that moisture availability was ...
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Linear reconstructions and the analysis of the stable sampling rate
... generalized sampling and the PBDW technique with exam- ples using both Fourier and Walsh ...Generalized sampling will obviously recover the function perfectly, given that we choose the Haar basis for the ...
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