Stable Isotopes in Ecological Research

16.11.1988

Englisch

9780387967127

Springer US

Ecological Studies

Nein

525

Gebundene Ausgabe

68

Sediment, temperature, aquaculture, environment, terrestrial ecosystems, terrestrial ecosystem, ecology, biosphere, ecosystem

PSAF - Ökologie, Biosphäre PST - Botanik und Pflanzenwissenschaften

1. Stable Isotopes: History, Units, and Instrumentation.- Section I Ecophysiological Studies in Plants.- 2. Carbon Isotope Fractionation and Plant Water-Use Efficiency.- 3. Carbon Isotope Ratios and Physiological Processes in Aridland Plants.- 4. Stable Carbon Isotope Ratio as an Index of Water-Use Efficiency in C3 Halophytes—Possible Relationship to Strategies for Osmotic Adjustment.- 5. Stable Carbon Isotopes in Vernal Pool Aquatics of Differing Photosynthetic Pathways.- 6. Studies of Mechanisms Affecting the Fractionation of Carbon Isotopes in Photosynthesis.- 7. Intertree Variability of ?I3C in Tree Rings.- 8. Hydrogen Isotope Fractionation in Plant Tissues.- 9. Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Ratios in Plant Cellulose: Mechanisms and Applications.- 10. Stable Hydrogen Isotope Ratios in Plants: A Review of Current Theory and Some Potential Applications.- Section II Animal Food Webs and Feeding Ecology.- 11. Stable Carbon Isotopes in Terrestrial Ecosystem Research.- 12. ?13C Measurements as Indicators of Carbon Flow in Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.- 13. Natural Carbon Isotope Tracers in Arctic Aquatic Food Webs.- 14. Some Problems and Potentials of Strontium Isotope Analysis for Human and Animal Ecology.- 15. Natural Isotope Abundances in Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) Baleen: Markers of Aging and Habitat Usage.- 16. Doubly-Labeled Water Studies of Vertebrate Physiological Ecology.- 17. A ?13C and ?15N Tracer Study of Nutrition in Aquaculture: Penaeus vannamei in a Pond Growout System.- Section III Ecosystem Process Studies.- 18. Stable Isotope Ratios and the Dynamics of Caliche in Desert Soils.- 19. The Use of Stable Isotopes in Assessing the Effect of Agriculture on Arid and Semi-Arid Soils.- 20. Estimates of N2 Fixation in Ecosystems: The Need for and Basis of the 15N Natural Abundance Method.- 21. The Use of Variation in the Natural Abundance of 15N to Assess Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation by Woody Plants.- 22. 13C/12C Ratios in Atmospheric Methane and Some of Its Sources.- 23. Temperature-Dependent Hydrogen Isotope Fractionation in Cyanobacterial Sheaths: Applications to Studies of Modern and Precambrian Stromatolites.- 24. Sulfur Isotope Studies of the Pedosphere and Biosphere.- 25. Sulfate Fertilization and Changes in Stable Sulfur Isotopic Compositions of Lake Sediments.- 26. The Use of Stable Sulfur and Nitrogen Isotopes in Studies of Plant Responses to Air Pollution.- 27. The Use of Stable Sulfur Isotope Ratios in Air Pollution Studies: An Ecosystem Approach in South Florida.- 28. 87Sr/86Sr Ratios Measure the Sources and Flow of Strontium in Terrestrial Ecosystems.

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