You are not always what we think you eat: Selective assimilation across multiple whole-stream isotopic tracer studies

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2715-2722

  Dodds, W K ^a   Collins, S M ^b   Hamilton, S K ^c   Tank, J L ^d   Johnson, S ^e   Webster, J R ^f   Simon, K S ^g   Whiles, M R ^h   Rantala, H M ^h   McDowell, W H ⁱ   Peterson, S D ^j   Riis, T ^k   Crenshaw, C L ^l   Thomas, S A ^m   Kristensen, P B ^k   Cheever, B M ⁿ   Flecker, A S ^b   Griffiths, N A ^o   Crowl, T ^p   Rosi Marshall, E J ^q   El Sabaawi, R ^r   Marti E ^s   more..

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Corson Hall A406B ^*  (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^f VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^h SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^j MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^l UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

ⁿ Oak Ridge National Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^o OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^p FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^s CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

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Author keywords

15N; Consumer; Food resources; Food web; Label mismatch; Nitrogen cycling; Stable isotope tracer addition

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; EPILITHON; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LEAF; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STOCHASTICITY; STREAMWATER;

EID: 84908286081     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 19399170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-2276.1     Document Type: Article

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