Influence of environmental gradients on C and N stable isotope ratios in coral reef biota of the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia

2014 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 379-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Kürten ◽  
Ali M. Al-Aidaroos ◽  
Ulrich Struck ◽  
Hisham Sulaiman Khomayis ◽  
Waleed Yousef Gharbawi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Environmental Gradients ◽  
Isotope Ratios ◽  
Stable Isotope Ratios ◽  
C And N

Long-term variation in isotopic baselines and implications for estimating consumer trophic niches

2008 ◽  
Vol 65 (10) ◽  
pp. 2191-2200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher T. Solomon ◽  
Stephen R. Carpenter ◽  
James A. Rusak ◽  
M. Jake Vander Zanden
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Food Web ◽  
Isotope Ratios ◽  
Trophic Niche ◽  
Accurate Estimation ◽  
Stable Isotope Ratios ◽  
Turnover Rates ◽  
C And N ◽  
Trophic Niches

Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios are increasingly used to study long-term food web change. Temporal variation at the base of the food web may impact the accuracy of trophic niche estimates, but data describing interannual baseline variation are limited. We quantified baseline variation over a 23-year period in a north-temperate lake and used a simulation model to examine how this variation might affect consumer trophic niche estimates. Interannual variation in C and N stable isotope ratios was significant for both benthic and pelagic primary consumer baselines. Long-term linear trends and shorter-term autoregressive patterns were apparent in the data. There were no correlations among benthic and pelagic C and N baselines. Simulations demonstrated that error in estimated fish trophic niches, but not bias, increased substantially when sampling of baselines was incomplete. Accurate trophic niche estimates depended more on accurate estimation of baseline time series than on accurate estimation of growth and turnover rates. These results highlight the importance of previous and continued efforts to constrain bias and error in long-term stable isotope food web studies.

scholarly journals Foraging ecology of Mediterranean juvenile loggerhead turtles: insights from C and N stable isotope ratios

2020 ◽  
Vol 167 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia C. Haywood ◽  
Paolo Casale ◽  
Daniela Freggi ◽  
Wayne J. Fuller ◽  
Brendan J. Godley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Foraging Ecology ◽  
Isotope Ratios ◽  
Stable Isotope Ratios ◽  
Loggerhead Turtles ◽  
C And N

Influence of the Danube River inputs on C and N stable isotope ratios of the Romanian coastal waters and sediment (Black Sea)

2007 ◽  
Vol 54 (9) ◽  
pp. 1385-1394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Bănaru ◽  
Mireille Harmelin-Vivien ◽  
Marian-Traian Gomoiu ◽  
Teodora-Maria Onciu
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Isotope Ratios ◽  
Danube River ◽  
Stable Isotope Ratios ◽  
The Danube River ◽  
C And N
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