Stable Isotopes
Stable isotopes of captive cetaceans (killer whales and bottlenose dolphins)
... respectively. Stable isotope analysis is especially advantageous when investigating the feeding ecology and habitat use of marine mammals, where it is often impossible to directly observe feeding or migratory ...
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Measurement of de novo hepatic lipogenesis in humans using stable isotopes
... of stable isotopes and by combining the acetylated-xenobiotic probe technique with mass isotopomer analysis of secreted very low density lipoprotein-fatty acids ...
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Using stable isotopes of water to infer wetland hydrological dynamics
... Generally, however, the variation in the isotope data described here illustrates the potential of stable isotopes to clarify hydrological dynamics within a headwater lowland wetland. The combination of a ...
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Stable Isotopes Studies in the Urucu Oil Province, Amazon Region, Brazil
... Reference [4] observed that the δ 18 O and δ 2 H values of precipitation that have not been evaporated are linear- ly related by the equation δ 2 H = 8 δ 18 O + 10. This equation, known as the Global Meteoric Water Line ...
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Seasonal variability in stable isotopes of estuarine consumers under different freshwater flow regimes
... The magnitude of response of the upper trophic level consumers to altered flow in the Caloosa- hatchee estuary based on stable isotopes was less relative to the lower trophic level consumers. One ...
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Utilizing Stable Isotopes and Spatial Analysis to Understand Hillslope Ecohydrological.
... of stable isotopes are one tool that can be utilized to highlight these patterns of ecohydrological ...2004). Isotopes are atoms of the same element with a differing number of ...neutrons. ...
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Trans-generational marking of clownfish larvae via maternal transmission of stable isotopes
... enriched stable isotopes, such as 137 Ba, and the chemical signature is maternally transmitted to embryos and is deposited at the core of the otoliths of ...
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Trans-generational marking of clownfish larvae via maternal transmission of stable isotopes
... can be captured alive and injected with trace amounts of rare, stable isotopes. Laboratory experiments have shown that soluble forms of 137 Ba, when injected into gravid females, are subsequently ...
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Continual in situ monitoring of pore water stable isotopes in the subsurface
... Abstract. Stable isotope signatures provide an integral fin- gerprint of origin, flow paths, transport processes, and res- idence times of water in the ...of stable isotopes to quantitatively ...
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Stable isotopes and body composition in children: History, fundamentals, and clinical applications
... The current references of body composition are based on body mass index assessed in healthy children, but their individual interpretation should be made with cau- tion. The use of stable isotopes, such as ...
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Stable Isotopes Labeling of Drugs in Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology
... radioactive isotopes is unstable, and a disintegration occurs with emis- sion of an ionizing ...of stable isotopes is stable and no disintegration ...occurs. Stable isotopes ...
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Characteristics of Stable Isotopes in an Inland Lake and Their Implications for Water Management in Northwestern China
... Bosten Lake Basin are sensitive to the climate change of the local region. This finding is consistent with the re- sults from analyzing the relationship of historic trends between climate variables and runoff [16]. ...
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Stable isotopes and dynamic diets : the Mesolithic-Neolithic dietary transition in terrestrial Central Europe
... part, stable isotopes represent dietary protein consumption, but in low-protein diets, stable carbon isotopes may also represent contributions from lipids and carbohydrates (Schulting ...
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Stable isotopes in leaf water of terrestrial plants
... Cernusak, Lucas A., Barbour, Margaret M., Arndt, Stefan K., Cheesman, Alexander W., English, Nathan B., Feild, Taylor S., Helliker, Brent R., Holloway-Phillips, Meisha M., Holtum, Joseph A.M., Kahmen, Ansgar, McInerney, ...
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Hagfish feeding habits along a depth gradient inferred from stable isotopes
... 2012). Stable isotopes suggest that this species employs an active feeding strategy, consuming small carrion and also actively preying on inver tebrates from soft ...
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Understanding trophic interactions in host parasite associations using stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen
... regarding stable isotope composition of acan- thocephalans, the results of the present study were in line with some other groups of parasites, which share a similar absorptive feeding ...heavier stable ...
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Domestic Water Supply Dynamics Using Stable Isotopes δ18O, δD, and d Excess
... isotopic evidence for evaporation does not in itself provide a warning signal of water resource sensitivity, data collected over time and analyzed in combination with information on regional climate and hydrology could ...
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Links between carbon and water cycles in northern ecosystems: Constraints from stable isotopes
... basement stable isotope lab and who were always willing to answer questions, including Xiaomei, Julianna Fessenden, Sally Newman, Nami Kitchen, Zhengrong Wang, Julie O’leary, Thom Rahn and Hagit ...
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Morphometrics and stable isotopes differentiate wintering populations of a migratory bird
... breeding population with good probability when combin- ing morphometric measurements and stable isotope signa- tures of their feathers [56, 57]. Therefore, we predicted that if migratory connectivity is high, ...
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Estimating flow and transport parameters in the unsaturated zone with pore water stable isotopes
... water stable isotope con- centrations allow tracking water particles under variable nat- ural boundary conditions over months to ...water stable isotope profiles have so far neither been rigorously tested ...
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