Trophic Level Isotopic Enrichment of Carbon and Nitrogen in Bone Collagen: Case Studies from Recent and Ancient Terrestrial Ecosystems

By H. Bocherens, D. Drucker. 2003

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Subfields: Anthropology, Ecology, Paleontology

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In Anthropology

1. H. Bocherens
2. J. Pérez-Claros
3. C. Janis
4. D. Gröcke
5. K. Fox-Dobbs
6. P. Palmqvist
7. Keith A. Hobson
8. P. Koch

In Ecology

1. H. Bocherens
2. P. Koch
3. L. Reynard
4. R. Hedges
5. P. Palmqvist
6. Keith A. Hobson
7. C. Janis
8. J. Pérez-Claros

In Paleontology

1. H. Bocherens
2. P. Palmqvist
3. P. Koch
4. C. Janis
5. J. Pérez-Claros
6. Keith A. Hobson
7. D. Gröcke
8. L. Reynard

Citations in the corpus

• Carbon isotope compositions of terrestrial C3 plants as indicators of (paleo)ecology and (paleo)climate (2010, neutral): “b1 1⁄4 Bibi (51); b2 1⁄4 Bocherens and Drucker (63); c1 1⁄4 Chritz et al.”
• Isotopic evidence for dietary ecology of cave lion (Panthera spelaea) in North-Western Europe: Prey choice, competition and implications for extinction (2011, methodology): “Predators re fl ect, with a stable isotopic fractionation, the carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures of their average prey (Bocherens and Drucker, 2003; Fox-Dobbs et al., 2007).”
• Neanderthal Dietary Habits: Review of the Isotopic Evidence (2009, background): “When the δ 15 N values of the bone collagen of a predator are compared to those of its average prey, a similar enrichment of 3–5‰ is found ( Bocherens and Drucker, 2003b ).”
• Pleistocene Megafauna From Eastern Beringia: Paleoecological And Paleoenvironmental Interpretations Of Stable Carbon And Nitrogen Isotope And Radiocarbon Records (vol 261, Pg 30, 2008) (2008, background): “Extensive stable isotope and 14C datasets collected from fossil bone collagen of Pleistocene herbivores in Europe and western Beringia (Siberia) have established that glacial-scale paleoenvironmental changes are reliably recorded in the biogeochemistry of fossil bone (e.g. Iacumin et al., 2000; Druc”
• Reconstructing northern Chinese Neolithic subsistence practices by isotopic analysis (2005, background): “An additional correction of 1e2& for carnivore vs. prey collagen [ 12 ] is appropriate for meat-dominated diets.”
• Influence of seabird guano and camelid dung fertilization on the nitrogen isotopic composition of field-grown maize (Zea mays) (2012, background): “(A) Trophic level enrichment of (15)N for most mammalian tissues is estimated to be w3 to 4& (Bocherens and Drucker, 2003; Caut et al., 2009; Szpak et al., 2012a).”
• Isotopic evidence for dietary ecology of late Neandertals in North-Western Europe (2016, methodology): “Since this early research, several Neandertal remains have been the subject of investigation using stable isotopes: early Late Pleistocene remains from Scladina cave in Belgium (Bocherens et al., 1999); the Late Pleistocene remains from Vindija in Croatia (Richards et al., 2000); Spy and Engis in Be”
• Intrapopulation variation in gray wolf isotope (δ15N and δ13C) profiles: implications for the ecology of individuals (2005, background): “…ratios show a stepwise enrichment of about 2–5& in d15N values with increasing trophic level (DeNiro and Epstein 1978, 1981; Tieszen et al. 1983; Bocherens and Drucker 2003) while d13C values typically change little as carbon moves through food webs (Peterson and Fry 1987; France and Peters…”
• Tracing the ecophysiology of ungulates and predator–prey relationships in an early Pleistocene large mammal community (2008, background): “In a review of studies developed under experimental conditions on isotopic enrichment between diet and collagen, Bocherens and Drucker (2003) found that the enrichment factor ranges from 3.7‰ to 6.0‰ for carbon and from 1.7‰ to 6.9‰ for nitrogen, respectively.”
• Carnivore-specific stable isotope variables and variation in the foraging ecology of modern and ancient wolf populations: case studies from Isle Royale, Minnesota, and La Brea (2007, background): “3%) for Isle Royale wolf collagen is similar to values reported in other studies of wild terrestrial carnivores and their prey (Bocherens and Drucker 2003), as well as values calculated from numerical dietary models (Hedges 2003).”
• Nutritional ecology and the human demography of Neandertal extinction (2005, background): “50,000 and 25,000 BP (Bocherens et al., 1995, 1999, 2001; Fizet et al., 1995; Ambrose, 1998; Katzenberg and Weber, 1999; Richards and Hedges, 1999; Iacumin et al., 2000; Richards et al., 2000a, b, 2003; Bocherens and Drucker, 2003).”