Can stable isotope ratios provide for community-wide measures of trophic structure?

By C. Layman, D. Arrington, Carman G. Montaña, D. Post. Ecology, 2007

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Stable isotope‐based community metrics as a tool to identify patterns in food web structure in east African estuaries (2014, background): “…be kept in mind, such that the use of comprehensive and standardized sampling designs, the ranges in d13C of available producers, any temporal and/ or spatial variation in source d13C and differences in d13C and d15N trophic fractionation between taxa (Layman et al. 2007a; Hoeinghaus & Zeug 2008).”
Source Partitioning Using Stable Isotopes: Coping with Too Much Variation (2010, background): “Recent quantitative advances allow comparison of community structure based on isotope data alone – in d-space [23,24].”
Applications of stable isotope analyses to avian ecology (2008, methodology): “Layman et al. (2007) propose using measurements taken from isotopic bi-plots of δ13C and δ15N to describe trophic structure within a community.”
Getting to the fat of the matter: models, methods and assumptions for dealing with lipids in stable isotope analyses (2007, background): “…cycling (Bilby et al. 1996; Kitchell et al. 1999), animal migration (Hobson 1999), diet composition (Vandermerwe and Vogel 1978; Phillips 2001), niche shifts (Post 2003) and trophic structure (Ponsard and Arditi 2000; Post et al. 2000; Finlay et al. 2002; Post 2002; Layman et al. 2005, 2006).”
The ecological causes of individual specialisation. (2011, background): “The basic idea of these isotopic approaches is that individualsÕ tissues will have isotope signatures that reflect their diet (Layman et al. 2007a; Newsome et al. 2007).”
New multidimensional functional diversity indices for a multifaceted framework in functional ecology. (2008, methodology): “Therefore, we propose to use the value of the convex hull volume filled by a community as a multidimensional measure of the functional richness (Cornwell et al. 2006, Layman et al. 2007).”
Niche differentiation among invasive crayfish and their impacts on ecosystem structure and functioning (2014, methodology): “We used the stable isotope-derived population metrics carbon range (CRb) and nitrogen range (NRb) as measures of the trophic niche width of crayfish from the mesocosm experiments (Layman et al., 2007; Jackson et al., 2011; Jackson et al., 2012).”
Comparing isotopic niche widths among and within communities: SIBER - Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses in R. (2011, background): “…levels with respect to a consumer are also likely to influence dispersion in d-space and hence potentially complicate comparisons among communities (Hoeinghaus & Zeug 2008; Layman & Post 2008), and more work is required to refine methods for normalising across such communities such as implemented…”
How important are terrestrial organic carbon inputs for secondary production in freshwater ecosystems (2017, background): “…this nearly four-decade debate is hampered by a lack of detailed chemical analyses of carbon digestibility and by shortcomings in analytical techniques for tracking carbon sources, determining food chain length, and analysing community relationships (e.g., Layman, Arrington, Monta~na & Post, 2007).”
Traits explain community disassembly and trophic contraction following experimental environmental change (2012, methodology): “Species that persist following community disassembly may have significantly altered ecological roles (Layman et al., 2007b).”
The Multidimensional Stoichiometric Niche (2017, methodology): “In particular, isotopic ecology (Layman et al., 2007; Newsome et al., 2007; Jackson et al., 2011; Cucherousset and Villéger, 2015; Swanson et al., 2015), the geometric framework of nutrition (Simpson and Raubenheimer, 1993; Raubenheimer and Simpson, 2004; Raubenheimer et al., 2009, 2015; Kearney et…”
Fifty years later: trophic ecology and niche overlap of a native and non-indigenous fish species in the western basin of Lake Erie (2013, methodology): “These population metrics were first developed by Layman et al. (2007) and further enhanced by Jackson et al. (2011).”