A synthesis of tissue-preservation effects on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope signatures

By H. Sarakinos, Michael L. Johnson, M. V. Zanden. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• A practical introduction to stable-isotope analysis for seabird biologists: Approaches, cautions and caveats (2009, background): “Even when historical prey samples are available, isotopic ratios are prone to artificial changes caused by preservation techniques (Hobson et al. 1997, Kaehler & Pakhomov 2001, Sarakinos et al. 2002, Feuchtmayr & Grey 2003, Rau et al. 2003).”
• Trophic relationships in a deep Mediterranean cold-water coral bank (Santa Maria di Leuca, Ionian Sea) (2009, background): “Some authors found no significant effect (Sarakinos et al. 2002), whereas other studies evidenced significant δ15N shifts (Bosley & Wainright 1999, Edwards et al. 2002).”
• Foodweb structure in a tropical Asian forest stream (2004, background): “Food webs in aquatic environments generally have short food chains with 3 to 4 links, consistent predator–prey ratios, and scale-independent proportions of top, intermediate, and basal elements (Hall and Raffaelli 1993, but see Schmid-Araya et al. 2002a).”
• 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): “…on studies on long-term preservation in ethanol or formalin, we suspect changes in isotope ratios after 1 yr storage to be insignificant (Edwards et al. 2002, Sarakinos et al. 2002, Syväranta et al. 2008, Carabel et al. 2009) and correction curves presented here to be valid beyond 1 yr storage.”
• Evaluating the utility of stable isotope analyses of archived freshwater sample materials (2008, background): “observed by Mullin et al. (1984), Hobson et al. (1997), Bosley & Wainright (1999), Kaehler & Pakhomov (2001), Edwards et al. (2002) and Sarakinos et al. (2002) , but contrary to the effect reported by Feuchtmayr & Grey (2003).”
• Getting to the fat of the matter: models, methods and assumptions for dealing with lipids in stable isotope analyses (2007, background): “13) The above recommendations do not apply to samples that have been chemically preserved in ethanol or formalin, which can have variable and relatively large effects on the d13C and d15N of tissue samples (Arrington and Winemiller 2002; Sarakinos et al. 2002; Sweeting et al. 2004).”
• Effect of lipid extraction on the interpretation of fish community trophic relationships determined by stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes (2006, methodology): “1995), sample preservation techniques (Kaehler and Pakhomov 2001; Arrington and Winemiller 2002; Sarakinos et al. 2002), and sample lipid extraction (Sotiropoulos et al.”
• Using stable isotope biogeochemistry to study marine mammal ecology (2010, background): “Multiple studies have assessed which methods provide the best preservation of soft tissue stable isotope values (Hobson et al. 1997a, Gloutney and Hobson 1998, Kaehler and Pakhomov 2001, Edwards et al. 2002, Sarakinos et al. 2002, Feuchtmayr and Grey 2003, Kelly et al. 2006, Barrow et al. 2008).”