This analytical approach is now among the most popular in ecology because of the insights provided by isotope ratios at natural abundance levels. Isotopes integrate ecological processes in space and ...

THE substitution of deuterium for hydrogen has a characteristic effect on the bond lengths in hydrogen compounds, depending on the type of linkage involved. The effect has been described for ionic ...

This variation in the relative abundance of ... cause increased nitrogen isotope fractionation that is unpredictable (Hobson & Wassenaar 2008). Deuterium (the heavy hydrogen isotope) has ...