scholarly journals Field-based oxygen isotope fractionation for the conservation of imperilled fishes: an application with the threatened silver shiner Notropis photogenis

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
J Burbank ◽  
DAR Drake ◽  
M Power
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Oxygen Isotopes ◽  
Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Thermal Ecology ◽  
Relative Temperature ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Thermal Habitat ◽  
Thermal Refugia ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
Fractionation Equation

Identifying the realized thermal habitat of animals is important for understanding life history and population processes, yet methods to estimate realized thermal use are lacking for many small-bodied organisms, including imperilled fishes. Analysis of oxygen isotopes provides one solution, but requires the development of species-specific fractionation equations. To date, such equations have generally been limited to commercial or game fish species. Here, we developed a field-based fractionation equation for the threatened silver shiner Notropis photogenis to better understand the thermal ecology of the species in an urban watershed. Archived otoliths were analyzed for oxygen isotope values (δ18O). There was a significant linear relationship between otolith isotope fractionation and water temperature, described by δ18Ootolith(VPBD) - δ18Owater(VPBD) = 32.03 - 0.21(°C). Results indicate that otolith isotope techniques can be used to identify the average relative temperature occupied by silver shiner, representing the first investigation of oxygen isotopes to understand thermal occupancy of the species. This field-based equation provides an opportunity to understand how silver shiner may respond to alterations in stream temperatures resulting from urbanization and climate effects and may be useful in identifying thermal refugia for the species. Field-based, species-specific fractionation equations can provide insights into the thermal ecology of many small-bodied fishes, which are increasingly imperilled due to thermal stressors.

Oxygen isotope compositions of phosphate from arvicoline teeth and Quaternary climatic changes, Gigny, French Jura

2004 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Navarro ◽  
Christophe Lécuyer ◽  
Sophie Montuire ◽  
Cyril Langlois ◽  
François Martineau
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Air Temperature ◽  
Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Meteoric Water ◽  
Ice Core ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Air Temperatures ◽  
French Jura ◽  
Fractionation Equation

Oxygen isotope compositions of biogenic phosphates from mammals are widely used as proxies of the isotopic compositions of meteoric waters that are roughly linearly related to the air temperature at high- and mid-latitudes. An oxygen isotope fractionation equation was determined by using present-day European arvicoline (rodents) tooth phosphate: δ18Op = 20.98(±0.59) + 0.572(±0.065) δ18Ow. This fractionation equation was applied to the Late Pleistocene karstic sequence of Gigny, French Jura. Comparison between the oxygen isotope compositions of arvicoline tooth phosphate and Greenland ice core records suggests to reconsider the previously established hypothetical chronology of the sequence. According to the δ18O value of meteoric water–mean air temperature relationships, the δ18O value of arvicoline teeth records variations in mean air temperatures that range from 0° to 15°C.

A field-derived oxygen isotope fractionation equation forSalvelinus species

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (24) ◽  
pp. 4109-4116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Storm-Suke ◽  
J. Brian Dempson ◽  
James D. Reist ◽  
Michael Power
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Fractionation Equation

scholarly journals Experimental determination of the temperature dependence of oxygen-isotope fractionation between water and chitinous head capsules of chironomid larvae

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Lombino ◽  
Tim Atkinson ◽  
Stephen J. Brooks ◽  
Darren R. Gröcke ◽  
Jonathan Holmes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Dependence ◽  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Oxygen Isotopes ◽  
Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Temperature Dependent ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Chironomid Larvae ◽  
Increasing Temperature ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractOxygen-isotope values of invertebrate cuticle preserved in lake sediments have been used in palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, generally with the assumption that fractionation of oxygen isotopes between cuticle and water ($$\upalpha_{\text{cuticle}-\text{H}_{2}\text{O}}$$ α cuticle - H 2 O ) is independent of temperature. We cultured chironomid larvae in the laboratory with labelled oxygen-isotope water and across a range of closely controlled temperatures from 5 to 25 °C in order to test the hypothesis that fractionation of oxygen isotopes between chironomid head capsules and water ($$\upalpha_{\text{chironomid}-\text{H}_{2}\text{O}}$$ α chironomid - H 2 O ) is independent of temperature. Results indicate that the hypothesis can be rejected, and that $$\upalpha_{\text{chironomid}-\text{H}_{2}\text{O}}$$ α chironomid - H 2 O decreases with increasing temperature. The scatter in the data suggests that further experiments are needed to verify the relationship. However, these results indicate that temperature-dependence of $$\upalpha_{\text{chironomid}-\text{H}_{2}\text{O}}$$ α chironomid - H 2 O should be considered when chironomid δ18O is used as a paleoenvironmental proxy, especially in cases where data from chironomids are combined with oxygen-isotope values from other materials for which fractionation is temperature dependent, such as calcite, in order to derive reconstructions of past water temperature.

Oxygen Isotope Fractionation between Minerals and an Estimate of the Temperature of Formation

Science ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 167 (3918) ◽  
pp. 536-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Onuma ◽  
R. N. Clayton ◽  
T. K. Mayeda
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Fractionation

scholarly journals Oxygen isotope fractionation during N<sub>2</sub>O production by soil denitrification

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1129-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Lewicka-Szczebak ◽  
Jens Dyckmans ◽  
Jan Kaiser ◽  
Alina Marca ◽  
Jürgen Augustin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Isotope Effect ◽  
Isotope Exchange ◽  
Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Isotope Effects ◽  
N2o Production ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Exchange ◽  
Incubation Experiments

Abstract. The isotopic composition of soil-derived N2O can help differentiate between N2O production pathways and estimate the fraction of N2O reduced to N2. Until now, δ18O of N2O has been rarely used in the interpretation of N2O isotopic signatures because of the rather complex oxygen isotope fractionations during N2O production by denitrification. The latter process involves nitrate reduction mediated through the following three enzymes: nitrate reductase (NAR), nitrite reductase (NIR) and nitric oxide reductase (NOR). Each step removes one oxygen atom as water (H2O), which gives rise to a branching isotope effect. Moreover, denitrification intermediates may partially or fully exchange oxygen isotopes with ambient water, which is associated with an exchange isotope effect. The main objective of this study was to decipher the mechanism of oxygen isotope fractionation during N2O production by soil denitrification and, in particular, to investigate the relationship between the extent of oxygen isotope exchange with soil water and the δ18O values of the produced N2O. In our soil incubation experiments Δ17O isotope tracing was applied for the first time to simultaneously determine the extent of oxygen isotope exchange and any associated oxygen isotope effect. We found that N2O formation in static anoxic incubation experiments was typically associated with oxygen isotope exchange close to 100 % and a stable difference between the 18O ∕ 16O ratio of soil water and the N2O product of δ18O(N2O ∕ H2O)  =  (17.5 ± 1.2) ‰. However, flow-through experiments gave lower oxygen isotope exchange down to 56 % and a higher δ18O(N2O ∕ H2O) of up to 37 ‰. The extent of isotope exchange and δ18O(N2O ∕ H2O) showed a significant correlation (R2 = 0.70, p <  0.00001). We hypothesize that this observation was due to the contribution of N2O from another production process, most probably fungal denitrification. An oxygen isotope fractionation model was used to test various scenarios with different magnitudes of branching isotope effects at different steps in the reduction process. The results suggest that during denitrification, isotope exchange occurs prior to isotope branching and that this exchange is mostly associated with the enzymatic nitrite reduction mediated by NIR. For bacterial denitrification, the branching isotope effect can be surprisingly low, about (0.0 ± 0.9) ‰, in contrast to fungal denitrification where higher values of up to 30 ‰ have been reported previously. This suggests that δ18O might be used as a tracer for differentiation between bacterial and fungal denitrification, due to their different magnitudes of branching isotope effects.

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