Meta‐analysis of primary producer amino acid δ15N values and their influence on trophic position estimation

MD Ramirez, AC Besser, SD Newsome… - Methods in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Compound‐specific stable isotope analysis of individual amino acids (CSIA‐AA) has
emerged as a transformative approach to estimate consumer trophic positions (TPCSIA) that …

Stable isotope fingerprinting traces essential amino acid assimilation and multichannel feeding in a vertebrate consumer

PJ Manlick, SD Newsome - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Animals often consume resources from multiple energy channels, thereby connecting food
webs and driving trophic structure. Such 'multichannel feeding'can dictate ecosystem …

The coupling of green and brown food webs regulates trophic position in a montane mammal guild

PJ Manlick, JA Cook, SD Newsome - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Food web ecology has revolutionized our understanding of ecological processes, but the
drivers of food web properties like trophic position (TP) and food chain length are notoriously …

More than just meat: Carcass decomposition shapes trophic identities in a terrestrial vertebrate

G Barceló, PL Perrig, P Dharampal… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Most food web models fail to account for the full complexity of interactions within a
community, particularly where microbes are involved. Carcasses are microbe‐rich resources …

Seasonal dynamics of small mammal populations: resource availability and cold exposure interact to govern abundance

SR Jolly, JH Gilbert, JE Woodford… - Canadian Journal of …, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
Organisms in seasonal environments respond to both resources in the summer and
environmental conditions in winter. Small mammals, in particular, respond quickly to …

Patterns in tree squirrel co-occurrence vary with responses to local land cover in US cities

RN Larson, HA Sander, M Fidino, JL Angstmann… - Urban …, 2024 - Springer
Urbanization has important effects on the distribution and persistence of wildlife
communities. Urbanization may alter not just the distributions of individual species, but also …

High δ13C values in red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris explained by a reliance on conifer seeds

TN Karmanova, NY Feoktistova… - … in Environmental and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Eurasian red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris have unusually high δ 13C values compared to other
forest rodents, which is seemingly related to the consumption of 13C-enriched conifer seeds …

The role of cladocerans in green and brown food web coupling

VA Urbano, D Delanira-Santos, E Benedito - Iheringia. Série Zoologia, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
Cladocerans, an important zooplankton community, are consumers from the base of the food
web of aquatic environments. We investigated the contribution of producers (phytoplankton …