Stable isotopes as ecological tracers: An efficient method for assessing the contribution of multiple sources to mixtures

Biogeosciences

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1351-1359

  Bugalho, M N ^a   Barcia, P ^b   Caldeira, M C ^a   Cerdeira, J O ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^b NOVA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 52949086501     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-5-1351-2008     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Barcia, P., Bugalho, M. N., Campagnolo, M. L., and Cerdeira, J. O.: Using N-alkanes to estimate the diet composition of herbivores, Animal (Farming Systems and Environment), 1, 141-149, 2007.
2. Ben-David, M., Flynn, R. W., and Schell D. M.: Annual and seasonal changes in diets of martens: evidence from stable isotope analysis, Oecologia, 111, 280-291, 1997.
3. Benstead, J. P., March J. G., Fry, B., Ewel, K. C., and Pringle, C. M.: Testing IsoSource: stable isotope analysis of a tropical fishery with diverse organic matter sources, Ecology, 87, 327-333, 2006.
4. Brito, E. F., Moulton, T. P., Souza, M. L., and Bunn, S. E.: Stable isotope analysis indicates microalgae as the predominant food source of fauna in a coastal forest stream, south-east Brazil: Austral Ecol., 31, 623-633, 2006.
5. Cerling, T. E., Wittemyer G., Rasmussen, H. B., Vollrath, F., Cerling, C. E., Robinson, T. J., and Douglas-Hamilton, I.: Stable isotopes in elephant hair document migration patterns and diet changes, P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103, 371-373, 2006.
6. Cherel, Y., Hobson, K. A., Bailleul, F. R., and Groscolas, R.: Nutrition, physiology, and stable isotopes: new information from fasting and molting penguins, Ecology, 86, 2881-2888, 2005.
7. Dawson, T. E., Mambelli, S., Plamboeck, A. H., Templer, P. H., and Tu, K. P.: Stable isotopes in plant ecology, Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst., 33, 507-559, 2002.
8. Demopoulos, A. W. J., Fry, B., and Smith, C. R.: Food-web structure in exotic and native mangroves - a Hawaii-Puerto Rico comparison, Oecologia, 153, 675-686, 2007.
9. Inger, R., Ruxton, G. D., Newton, J., Colhoun, K., Robinson, J. A., Jackson A. L., and Bearhop, S.: Temporal and intrapopulation variation in prey choice of wintering geese determined by stable isotope analysism, J. Anim. Ecol., 75, 1190-1200, 2006.
10. Lubetkin, S. C. and Simenstad, C. A.: Multi-source mixing models to quantify food web sources and pathways, J. Appl. Ecol., 41, 996-1008, 2004.
11. Mayes, R. W. and Dove, H.: Measurement of dietary nutrient intake in free-ranging mammalian herbivores, Nutr. Res. Rev., 13, 107-138, 2000.
12. McKechnie, A. E.: Stable isotopes: powerful new tools for animal ecologists, S. Afr. J. Sci., 100, 131-134, 2004.
13. Moncreiff, C. A. and Sullivan, M. J.: Trophic importance of epiphytic algae in subtropical seagrass beds: evidence from multiple stable isotope analyses, Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., 215, 93-106, 2001.
14. Moore, J. W. and Semmens, B. X.: Incorporating uncertainty and prior information into stable isotope mixing models, Ecol. Lett., 11, 470-480, 2008.
15. Parnell, A.: The siar Package: stable isotope analysis in R, available at: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/siar/siar.pdf, last access: 17 September 2008.
16. Phillips, D. L. and Gregg, J. W.: Source partitioning using stable isotopes: coping with too many sources, Oecologia, 136, 261-269, 2003.
17. Querejeta, J. I., Estrada-Medina, H., Allen, M. F., and Jiménez-Osornio, J. J.: Water source partitioning among trees growing on shallow karst soils in a seasonally dry tropical climate, Oecologia, 152, 26-36, 2007.
18. van Dover, C. L., Grassler, J. F., Fry, B., Garritt, R. H., and Starczak, V. R.: Stable isotope evidence for entry of sewage-derived organic material into a deep-sea food web, Nature, 360, 153-155, 1992.
19. West, J. B., Bowen, G. J., Cerling, T. E., and Ehleringer, J. R.: Stable isotopes as one of nature's ecological recorders, Trends Ecol. Evol., 21, 408-414, 2006.