Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of human and animal tissues have become an
important means of studying both anthropogenic and natural food webs in aquatic …

There is growing consensus that we have entered the Anthropocene, a geologic epoch
characterized by human domination of the ecosystems of the Earth. With the future …

With overwhelming evidence of change in habitats, biologists today must assume that few, if
any, study areas are natural and that biological variability is superimposed on trends rather …

The emergence of plant-based economies have dominated evolutionary models of Middle
and Late Holocene pre-Columbian societies in South America. Comparatively, the use of …

Mercury (Hg) is increasing in marine food webs, especially at high latitudes. The
bioaccumulation and biomagnification of methyl mercury (MeHg) has serious effects on …

Abstract The North Pacific subtropical gyre (NPSG) plays a major part in the export of carbon
and other nutrients to the deep ocean. Primary production in the NPSG has increased in …

Identifying the mechanisms of ecological change is challenging in the absence of long-term
data, but stable isotope ratios of museum specimen tissues may provide a record of diet and …

Museomics is a valuable approach that utilizes the diverse biobanks that are natural history
museums. The ability to sequence genomes from old specimens has expanded not only the …

Over the last century, marine mammals have been dramatically reduced in the world's
oceans. We examined evidence that this change caused dietary and foraging pattern shifts …

Abstract Changes in the world's oceans have altered nutrient flow, and affected the viability
of predator populations when prey species become unavailable. These changes are …