Tracing water sources of terrestrial animal populations with stable isotopes: laboratory tests with crickets and spiders.

Fluxes of carbon, nitrogen, and water between ecosystem components and organisms have great impacts across levels of biological organization. Although much progress has been made in tracing carbon and nitrogen, difficulty remains in tracing water sources from the ecosystem to animals and among anima...

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Main Authors: Kevin E McCluney, John L Sabo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-12-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3013119?pdf=render