The confounding effects of source isotopic heterogeneity on consumer-diet and tissue-tissue stable isotope relationships

Oecologia

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 939-953

  Codron, Daryl ^a,b,c,e   Sponheimer, Matt ^c   Codron, Jacqui ^b   Newton, Ian ^d   Lanham, John L ^d   Clauss, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e NATIONAL MUSEUM   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bone collagen; Carbon isotopes; Fractionation; Gut contents; Hair; Nitrogen isotopes; Turnover

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

CARBON ISOTOPE; HERBIVORE; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LINEARITY; MAMMAL; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PROTEIN; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HERBIVORY; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HERBIVORY; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

SOUTH AFRICA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84864281788     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2274-3     Document Type: Article

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