Expanding the isotopic toolbox: applications of hydrogen and oxygen stable isotope ratios to food web studies

HB Vander Zanden, DX Soto, GJ Bowen… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The measurement of stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes in tissues of
organisms has formed the foundation of isotopic food web reconstructions, as these values …

Static and Mobile Target -Coverage in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks

P Zhou, C Wang, Y Yang - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy remains a major hurdle in running computation-intensive tasks on wireless sensors.
Recent efforts have been made to employ a Mobile Charger (MC) to deliver wireless power …

Importance of riparian zone: effects of resource availability at land-water interface

H Xiang, Y Zhang, JS Richardson - Riparian Ecology and …, 2017 - degruyter.com
Riparian zone provides a variety of resources to organisms, including availability of water
and subsidies. Water availability in riparian areas influences species distribution and trophic …

An open source B ayesian M onte C arlo isotope mixing model with applications in E arth surface processes

CA Arendt, SM Aciego… - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The implementation of isotopic tracers as constraints on source contributions has become
increasingly relevant to understanding Earth surface processes. Interpretation of these …

Differences in the use of surface water resources by desert birds are revealed using isotopic tracers

B Smit, S Woodborne, BO Wolf, AE McKechnie - The Auk, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The scarcity of free-standing water sources is a key determinant of animal and plant
community structure in arid environments, and an understanding of the extent to which …

Dependence of biocatalysis on D/H ratio: Possible fundamental differences for high-level biological taxons

I Zlatskiy, T Pleteneva, A Skripnikov, T Grebennikova… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The kinetics of biological reactions depends on the deuterium/protium (D/H) ratio in water. In
this work, we describe the kinetic model of biocatalytic reactions in living organisms …

Water as a trophic currency in dryland food webs

DC Allen, KE McCluney, SR Elser… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Water is essential for life on Earth, yet little is known about how water acts as a trophic
currency, a unit of value in determining species interactions in terrestrial food webs. We …

[PDF][PDF] Mechanochemical activation of pharmaceutical substances as a factor for modification of their physical, chemical and biological properties

AV Syroeshkin, EV Uspenskaya… - International journal of …, 2019 - academia.edu
Objective: Study the influence of the mechanical preparation methods (grinding, fluidization)
of solid pharmaceutical substances (PS) and herbal raw material on their physicochemical …

Stable isotope ratio analysis for the characterisation of edible insects

S Pianezze, M Perini, L Bontempo… - Journal of Insects …, 2021 - wageningenacademic.com
Entomophagy, or the act of eating insects, has been practiced since ancient times, but it
started to gain more popularity, especially in Western countries, only recently. As …

Variables affecting resource subsidies from streams and rivers to land and their susceptibility to global change stressors

JD Muehlbauer, S Larsen, M Jonsson… - … and Ecological Subsidies …, 2020 - Springer
Stream and river ecosystems provide subsidies of emergent adult aquatic insects and other
resources to terrestrial food webs, and this lotic–land subsidy has garnered much attention …