STUDYING TROPHIC ECOLOGY IN MARINE ECOSYSTEMS USING FATTY ACIDS: A PRIMER ON ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

By S. Budge, S. Iverson, H. Koopman. 2006

629 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Aquatic Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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In Aquatic Science

1. S. Iverson
2. Ian Stirling
3. G. Thiemann
4. C. Parrish
5. A. Springer
6. Alexander Wacker
7. M. Kainz
8. W. Bowen

In Ecology

1. S. Iverson
2. G. Thiemann
3. Ian Stirling
4. N. Karnovsky
5. R. Scheibling
6. J. Kelly
7. W. Bowen
8. Keith A. Hobson

In Global and Planetary Change

1. S. Iverson
2. G. Thiemann
3. Ian Stirling
4. R. Scheibling
5. J. Kelly
6. C. Parrish
7. Keith A. Hobson
8. N. Karnovsky

Citations in the corpus

• A fundamental dichotomy in long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid abundance between and within marine and terrestrial ecosystems (2017, methodology): “While the abundance and distribution of marine-derived LC-PUFA has been the focus of a plethora of studies for decades (e.g., Brockerhoff et al. 1963; Ackman et al. 1968; Dalsgaard et al. 2003; Budge et al. 2006; Arts et al. 2009; Parrish et al. 2015), a more global inventory of marine organism PUFA”
• Tracing aquatic food webs using fatty acids: from qualitative indicators to quantitative determination (2009, methodology): “Details of the initial QFASA model are provided by Iverson et al. (2004) and are further discussed by Budge et al. (2006) .”
• From lavage to lipids: Estimating diets of seabirds (2012, methodology): “Several characteristics of FAs and their storage patterns make them very useful tracers of predator diets and marine foodweb structure (e.g. Cook 1996, Budge et al. 2006, Iverson 2009).”
• VARIABILITY IN THE BLUBBER FATTY ACID COMPOSITION OF RINGED SEALS (PHOCA HISPIDA) ACROSS THE CANADIAN ARCTIC (2007, methodology): “In the lab, a biopsy subsample was taken through the full depth of the adipose layer in the center of each sample, an area that is subject to little degradation during frozen storage (Budge et al. 2006).”
• Seabirds as indicators of food web structure and ecosystem variability: qualitative and quantitative diet analyses using fatty acids (2007, methodology): “Many of the issues required for using QFASA and assembling a prey FA 242 Iverson et al.: Fatty acid diet analysis of seabirds database have previously been reviewed (Iverson et al. 2004, Budge et al. 2006).”
• Fatty acid biomarkers reveal niche separation in an Arctic benthic food web (2007, methodology): “Lipids were quantitatively extracted and fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) were prepared directly from the extracted lipid using methods described in Budge et al. (2006).”
• Methods of estimating marine mammal diets: A review of validation experiments and sources of bias and uncertainty (2012, methodology): “With the exception of the use of DNA (a rapidly developing method), these methods have been extensively reviewed (e.g., Pierce and Boyle 1991, Pierce et al. 1993, Hobson et al. 1994, Bowen and Siniff 1999, Bowen 2000, Santos et al. 2001, Budge et al. 2006, Iverson 2009, Tollit et al. 2010).”
• Fatty acids as dietary tracers in benthic food webs (2012, positive): “Use of a single or few FAs can also be misleading in that these FAs could be obtained by consuming a primary producer, or by preying on a consumer of that primary producer (Budge et al. 2006).”
• Diet of whale sharks Rhincodon typus inferred from stomach content and signature fatty acid analyses (2013, methodology): “The use of FA signatures as an indirect method of assessing dietary preferences and the trophic ecology of marine animals has increased over the past 2 decades (Budge et al. 2006).”
• A Guide to Using Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Analysis to Study the Fates of Molecules in Organisms and Ecosystems (2019, methodology): “Following field collection, samples for AA isotopic analysis should be stored frozen at≤−20 ◦C or lyophilized, while it is best to store samples for FA analysis at ≤−80 ◦C and possibly with antioxidants (see [43]).”
• Evaluating quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (QFASA) using harbour seals Phoca vitulina richardsi in captive feeding studies (2008, background): “Alternatively, modeling a sub-sample of each prey species against the remaining prey library (i.e. as if the prey were blubber sample) would be a useful exercise to assess potential sources of overlap among prey species (Budge et al. 2006).”
• The trophodynamics of marine top predators: Current knowledge, recent advances and challenges (2015, background): “Ramos & Gonzalez-Solis (2012), Layman et al. (2012), Hopkins and Ferguson (2012), Budge et al. (2006), Parrish (2013), Masbou et al. (2013), Germain et al. (2013), Pompanon et al. (2012) Telemetry (or electronictagging) – Mapping distribution.”
• Stable isotopes and trace elements as indicators of diet and habitat use in cetaceans: predicting errors related to preservation, lipid extraction, and lipid normalization (2010, background): “Although the recommendation is for low-temperature cryogenic preservation (Sweeting et al. 2004, Budge et al. 2006), possibilities for retrospective ecological studies of marine mammals, and particularly cetaceans, commonly arise from DMSOpreserved tissue banks collected for the purpose of genetic…”
• POLAR BEAR DIETS AND ARCTIC MARINE FOOD WEBS: INSIGHTS FROM FATTY ACID ANALYSIS (2008, methodology): “In the laboratory a full-depth subsample was taken through the center of each sample—an area that is protected from oxidation during frozen storage (Budge et al. 2006).”
• Morphological and thermal properties of mammalian insulation: the evolutionary transition to blubber in pinnipeds (2012, methodology): “To analyse fatty acid composition, fatty acid methyl ethers (FAMEs) were prepared from the extracted lipid, using H2SO4 in methanol (Budge et al., 2006).”