Trophic hierarchies illuminated via amino acid isotopic analysis.

Food web ecologists have long sought to characterize the trophic niches of animals using stable isotopic analysis. However, distilling trophic position from isotopic composition has been difficult, largely because of the variability associated with trophic discrimination factors (inter-trophic isoto...

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Main Authors: Shawn A Steffan, Yoshito Chikaraishi, David R Horton, Naohiko Ohkouchi, Merritt E Singleton, Eugene Miliczky, David B Hogg, Vincent P Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3783375?pdf=render