Uncovering trophic positions and food resources of soil animals using bulk natural stable isotope composition

Non-vascular plants as a food source for litter-dwelling Collembola: Field evidence

(2018) Anton M. Potapov et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Complex effects of precipitation and basal resources on the trophic ecology of soil oribatid mites: Implications for stable isotope analysis

(2017) Nereida Melguizo-Ruiz et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Trophic interactions among soil arthropods in contrasting land-use systems in Kenya, studied with stable isotopes

(2017) Jan Lagerlöf et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Ecomorphological adaptations in Collembola in relation to feeding strategies and microhabitat

(2017) Miriama Malcicka et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Are food web structures well represented in isotopic spaces?

(2017) Franck Jabot et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

‘Trophic’ and ‘source’ amino acids in trophic estimation: a likely metabolic explanation

(2017) T. C. O’Connell   OECOLOGIA

Distribution patterns of soil microbial eukaryotes suggests widespread algivory by phagotrophic protists as an alternative pathway for nutrient cycling

(2017) Christophe V.W. Seppey et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Unpacking brown food-webs: Animal trophic identity reflects rampant microbivory

(2017) Shawn A. Steffan et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Neutral lipid fatty acid composition as trait and constraint in Collembola evolution

(2017) Ting-Wen Chen et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The structure of salt marsh soil mesofauna food webs – The prevalence of disturbance

(2017) Kristin Haynert et al.   PLoS One

Photoautotrophic microorganisms as a carbon source for temperate soil invertebrates

(2016) Olaf Schmidt et al.   Biology Letters

Consumption of aquatic subsidies by soil invertebrates in coastal ecosystems

(2016) D. I. Korobushkin et al.   Contemporary Problems of Ecology

Short-term incorporation of freshly fixed plant carbon into the soil animal food web: field study in a spruce forest

(2016) Anton A. Goncharov et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Parasite infection alters host stable-isotope composition under controlled feeding

(2016) Katja Pulkkinen et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Partial mycoheterotrophy is more widespread among orchids than previously assumed

(2016) Gerhard Gebauer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Assimilation of plant-derived freshly fixed carbon by soil collembolans: Not only via roots?

(2016) Anton M. Potapov et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Substantial nutritional contribution of bacterial amino acids to earthworms and enchytraeids: A case study from organic grasslands

(2016) Thomas Larsen et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Stable isotope composition of mycophagous collembolans versus mycotrophic plants: Do soil invertebrates feed on mycorrhizal fungi?

(2016) Anton M. Potapov et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Reliability of isotopic fractionation (Δ 15 N, Δ 13 C) for the delimitation of trophic levels of oribatid mites: Diet strongly affects Δ 13 C but not Δ 15 N

(2016) Michael Heethoff et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Re-visioning soil food webs

(2016) Mark A. Bradford   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Connecting taxonomy and ecology: Trophic niches of collembolans as related to taxonomic identity and life forms

(2016) Anton A. Potapov et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Small-scale spatial heterogeneity of stable isotopes signatures (δ 15 N, δ 13 C) in Sphagnum sp. transfers to all trophic levels in oribatid mites

(2016) Ricarda Lehmitz et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Small-scale Collembola community composition in a pine forest soil – Overdispersion in functional traits indicates the importance of species interactions

(2016) Lina A. Widenfalk et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Stable isotope analysis (δ13C andδ15N) of soil nematodes from four feeding groups

(2016) Carol Melody et al.   PeerJ

Trophic generalism at the population level in ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

(2015) Marcin Zalewski et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Quantifying the multiple facets of isotopic diversity: New metrics for stable isotope ecology

(2015) Julien Cucherousset et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Fine-scale variation in natural nitrogen isotope ratios of ants

(2015) Adam L. Cronin et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Use of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in insect trophic ecology

(2015) Fujio Hyodo   ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Roots rather than shoot residues drive soil arthropod communities of arable fields

(2015) Nicole Scheunemann et al.   OECOLOGIA

Sex-related variation in δ15N values of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae): A case study

(2015) Anton A. Goncharov et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Microbes are trophic analogs of animals

(2015) Shawn A. Steffan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stable isotope composition (δ13C and δ15N values) of slime molds: placing bacterivorous soil protozoans in the food web context

(2015) Alexei V. Tiunov et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Trophic position of microbivorous and predatory soil nematodes in a boreal forest as indicated by stable isotope analysis

(2015) Alexey A. Kudrin et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Environmental filtering vs. resource-based niche partitioning in diverse soil animal assemblages

(2015) Stefanie Maaß et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Trophic structure of oribatid mite communities from six different oak forests (Quercus robur)

(2015) Elena Corral-Hernández et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Trophic niche differentiation and utilisation of food resources in collembolans based on complementary analyses of fatty acids and stable isotopes

(2015) Olga Ferlian et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effects of fasting and nutritional restriction on the isotopic ratios of nitrogen and carbon: a meta-analysis

(2015) Eric Hertz et al.   Ecology and Evolution

High Niche Overlap in the Stable Isotope Space Of Ground Beetles

(2014) Marcin Zalewski et al.   ANNALES ZOOLOGICI FENNICI

Changes in the community composition and trophic structure of microarthropods in sporocarps of the wood decaying fungus Fomitopsis pinicola along an altitudinal gradient

(2014) Mark Maraun et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Current use of and future needs for soil invertebrate functional traits in community ecology

(2014) Benjamin Pey et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Foraging Ecology of the Tropical Giant Hunting AntDinoponera australis(Hymenoptera:Formicidae)-Evaluating Mechanisms for High Abundance

(2014) Chadwick V. Tillberg et al.   BIOTROPICA

Spatial variations in the trophic structure of soil animal communities in boreal forests of Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve

(2014) A. A. Goncharov et al.   EURASIAN SOIL SCIENCE

Evaluating the importance of trophobiosis in a Mediterranean ant community: a stable isotope analysis

(2014) K. Brewitt et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Trophic Ecology of the Armadillo Ant,Tatuidris tatusia, Assessed by Stable Isotopes and Behavioral Observations

(2014) Justine Jacquemin et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Into darkness: unravelling the structure of soil food webs

(2014) Ulrich Brose et al.   OIKOS

Free-living nematodes as prey for higher trophic levels of forest soil food webs

(2014) Kerstin Heidemann et al.   OIKOS

Trophic shift of soil animal species with forest type as indicated by stable isotope analysis

(2014) Bernhard Klarner et al.   OIKOS

Unravelling the complex structure of forest soil food webs: higher omnivory and more trophic levels

(2014) Christoph Digel et al.   OIKOS

Seasonal and age-related changes in the stable isotope composition (15N/14N and 13C/12C) of millipedes and collembolans in a temperate forest soil

(2014) Anton M. Potapov et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Food Reconstruction Using Isotopic Transferred Signals (FRUITS): A Bayesian Model for Diet Reconstruction

(2014) Ricardo Fernandes et al.   PLoS One

Application of Nitrogen and Carbon Stable Isotopes (δ15N and δ13C) to Quantify Food Chain Length and Trophic Structure

(2014) Matthew J. Perkins et al.   PLoS One

Combined13C and15N isotope analysis on small samples using a near-conventional elemental analyzer/isotope ratio mass spectrometer setup

(2014) Reinhard Langel et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Isotopic niche (δ13С and δ15N values) of soil macrofauna in temperate forests

(2014) Daniil I. Korobushkin et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Carbon food resources of earthworms of different ecological groups as indicated by 13C compound-specific stable isotope analysis

(2014) Olga Ferlian et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Beyond simple linear mixing models: process-based isotope partitioning of ecological processes

(2013) Kiona Ogle et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Large 13C/12C and small 15N/14N isotope fractionation in an experimental detrital foodweb (litter–fungi–collembolans)

(2013) Anton M. Potapov et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Do fungivores trigger the transfer of protective metabolites from host plants to arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae?

(2013) Marie Duhamel et al.   ECOLOGY

Food Web Assembly at the Landscape Scale: Using Stable Isotopes to Reveal Changes in Trophic Structure During Succession

(2013) Maarten Schrama et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Snow fungi as a food source for micro-arthropods

(2013) Stef Bokhorst et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Nitrogen and carbon contents andδ15N andδ13C signatures in six bryophyte species: assessment of long-term deposition changes (1980-2010) in Spanish beech forests

(2013) Verónica Delgado et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

To What Extent Do Food Preferences Explain the Trophic Position of Heterotrophic and Mixotrophic Microbial Consumers in a Sphagnum Peatland?

(2013) Vincent E. J. Jassey et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Shifts in trophic interactions with forest type in soil generalist predators as indicated by complementary analyses of fatty acids and stable isotopes

(2013) Olga Ferlian et al.   OIKOS

Variations in prey consumption of centipede predators in forest soils as indicated by molecular gut content analysis

(2013) Babett Günther et al.   OIKOS

Food sources of early colonising arthropods: The importance of allochthonous input

(2013) María Ingimarsdóttir et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

The production and turnover of extramatrical mycelium of ectomycorrhizal fungi in forest soils: role in carbon cycling

(2013) A. Ekblad et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

(2013) F. T. de Vries et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest

(2013) K. E. Clemmensen et al.   SCIENCE

Trees as templates for trophic structure of tropical litter arthropod fauna

(2013) David A. Donoso et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Trophic stability of soil oribatid mites in the face of environmental change

(2013) Huijie Gan et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Divergence of feeding channels within the soil food web determined by ecosystem type

(2013) Felicity V. Crotty et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Trophic diversity in a Mediterranean food web—Stable isotope analysis of an ant community of an organic citrus grove

(2012) Christian Platner et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Northward range extension of an endemic soil decomposer with a distinct trophic position

(2012) C. Melody et al.   Biology Letters

Linking aquatic and terrestrial food webs - Odonata in boreal systems

(2012) LINDA I. SEIFERT et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Carbon flux through fungi and bacteria into the forest soil animal food web as indicated by compound-specific 13C fatty acid analysis

(2012) Melanie M. Pollierer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Stable isotope deltas: tiny, yet robust signatures in nature

(2012) Willi A. Brand et al.   ISOTOPES IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH STUDIES

Stable isotope composition of microfauna supports the occurrence of biologically fixed nitrogen from cyanobacteria in desert soil food webs

(2012) B.J. Darby et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Using Stable Isotopes to Differentiate Trophic Feeding Channels within Soil Food Webs

(2012) Felicity V. Crotty et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Stable isotopes in mammalian research: a beginner's guide

(2012) Merav Ben-David et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

The δ15N signature of the detrital food web tracks a landscape-scale soil phosphorus gradient in a Costa Rican lowland tropical rain forest

(2012) Ching-Yu Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Species traits and habitats in springtail communities: A regional scale study

(2012) S. Salmon et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Changes in stable nitrogen and carbon isotope ratios of plants and soil across a boreal forest fire chronosequence

(2012) Fujio Hyodo et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Population-Level Metrics of Trophic Structure Based on Stable Isotopes and Their Application to Invasion Ecology

(2012) Michelle C. Jackson et al.   PLoS One

Rapid incorporation of carbon from ectomycorrhizal mycelial necromass into soil fungal communities

(2012) B. Drigo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Mouthpart morphology and trophic position of microarthropods from soils and mosses are strongly correlated

(2012) Giselle Perdomo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Trophic diversity and niche partitioning in a species rich predator guild – Natural variations in stable isotope ratios (13C/12C, 15N/14N) of mesostigmatid mites (Acari, Mesostigmata) from Central European beech forests

(2012) Bernhard Klarner et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Food webs of a sandy beach macroinvertebrate community using stable isotopes analysis

(2011) Isabella Colombini et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Arthropod food webs in organic and conventional wheat farming systems of an agricultural long-term experiment: a stable isotope approach

(2011) Klaus Birkhofer et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

On the Use of Stable Isotopes in Trophic Ecology

(2011) William J. Boecklen et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Applying stable isotopes to examine food-web structure: an overview of analytical tools

(2011) Craig A. Layman et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Isotopic signature (15N/14N and 13C/12C) confirms similarity of trophic niches of millipedes (Myriapoda, diplopoda) in a temperate deciduous forest

(2011) I. I. Semenyuk et al.   BIOLOGY BULLETIN

Feeding ecology and phylogenetic structure of a complex neotropical termite assemblage, revealed by nitrogen stable isotope ratios

(2011) THOMAS BOURGUIGNON et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

15N/14N ratios of amino acids as a tool for studying terrestrial food webs: a case study of terrestrial insects (bees, wasps, and hornets)

(2011) Yoshito Chikaraishi et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios differ among invertebrates from field crops, forage crops, and non-cropped land uses

(2011) Judith Girard et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Feeding habits of Hymenoptera and Isoptera in a tropical rain forest as revealed by nitrogen and carbon isotope ratios

(2011) F. Hyodo et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Comparing isotopic niche widths among and within communities: SIBER - Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses in R

(2011) Andrew L. Jackson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Tracking Collembola feeding strategies by the natural 13C signal of fatty acids in an arable soil with different fertilizer regimes

(2011) Christopher Ngosong et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

The formation of terrestrial food webs in glacier foreland: Evidence for the pivotal role of decomposer prey and intraguild predation

(2011) Tanja König et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Carbon flow into microbial and fungal biomass as a basis for the belowground food web of agroecosystems

(2011) Susanne Kramer et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Stable isotopes revisited: Their use and limits for oribatid mite trophic ecology

(2011) M. Maraun et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Reservations about preservations: storage methods affect δ13C signatures differently even in closely related soil fauna

(2011) Eveline J. Krab et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Stable isotopes analysis to assess the trophic role of ants in a Mediterranean agroecosystem

(2010) Lorenzo Ottonetti et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

Trophic guilds of generalist feeders in soil animal communities as indicated by stable isotope analysis (15N/14N)

(2010) K. Oelbermann et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Diverse diet compositions among harpaline ground beetle species revealed by mixing model analyses of stable isotope ratios

(2010) HIROSHI IKEDA et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Linking aboveground and belowground food webs through carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses

(2010) Fujio Hyodo et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Dietary flexibility aids Asian earthworm invasion in North American forests

(2010) Weixin Zhang et al.   ECOLOGY

A general hypothesis-testing framework for stable isotope ratios in ecological studies

(2010) Thomas F. Turner et al.   ECOLOGY

Stable isotope analysis indicates trophic differences among forest floor carabids in Japan

(2010) Yutaka Okuzaki et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Soil biodiversity and carbon cycling: a review and synthesis of studies examining diversity-function relationships

(2010) U. N. Nielsen et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Community structure, trophic position and reproductive mode of soil and bark-living oribatid mites in an alpine grassland ecosystem

(2010) Barbara M. Fischer et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY

Estimation of food composition of Hodotermes mossambicus (Isoptera: Hodotermitidae) based on observations and stable carbon isotope ratios

(2010) Craig T. Symes et al.   Insect Science

The structure of a food web in a tropical rain forest in Malaysia based on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios

(2010) Fujio Hyodo et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Trophic relationships of grassland ants based on stable isotopes

(2010) A. O’ Grady et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Trophic fractionation (Δ15N) in Collembola depends on nutritional status: A laboratory experiment and mini-review

(2010) Eugenia E. Semenina et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Source Partitioning Using Stable Isotopes: Coping with Too Much Variation

(2010) Andrew C. Parnell et al.   PLoS One

Coupled energy pathways and the resilience of size-structured food webs

(2010) Julia L. Blanchard et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Trophic structure of macro- and meso-invertebrates in Japanese coniferous forest: Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes analyses

(2009) Khaleid Fouad Abd El-Wakeil   BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY

Controls of nitrogen isotope patterns in soil profiles

(2009) Erik A. Hobbie et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Vertical heterogeneity of a forest floor invertebrate food web as indicated by stable-isotope analysis

(2009) Yutaka Okuzaki et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Stable isotope fingerprinting: a novel method for identifying plant, fungal, or bacterial origins of amino acids

(2009) Thomas Larsen et al.   ECOLOGY

Intraspecific diet shift in Talitrus saltator inhabiting exposed sandy beaches

(2009) Celia Olabarria et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Nutrient allocations and metabolism in two collembolans with contrasting reproduction and growth strategies

(2009) Thomas Larsen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Ten years of experimental animal isotopic ecology

(2009) Nathan Wolf et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Feeding ecology of granivorous carabid larvae: a stable isotope analysis

(2009) K. Sasakawa et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Defensive strategies of soil fungi to prevent grazing by Folsomia candida (Collembola)

(2009) Jörg Böllmann et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Effect of ecosystem retrogression on stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes of plants, soils and consumer organisms in boreal forest islands

(2009) Fujio Hyodo et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Niche differentiation among neotropical soldierless soil-feeding termites revealed by stable isotope ratios

(2009) Thomas Bourguignon et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Compartmentalization of the soil animal food web as indicated by dual analysis of stable isotope ratios (15N/14N and 13C/12C)

(2009) Melanie M. Pollierer et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Isotopic ecology ten years after a call for more laboratory experiments

(2008) Carlos Martínez del Rio et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Coupling of canopy and understory food webs by ground-dwelling predators

(2008) Robert M. Pringle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Incorporating uncertainty and prior information into stable isotope mixing models

(2008) Jonathan W. Moore et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Gradual enrichment of15N with humification of diets in a below-ground food web: relationship between15N and diet age determined using14C

(2008) F. Hyodo et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

How does abundance scale with body size in coupled size-structured food webs?

(2008) Julia L. Blanchard et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Can isotopic fractionation during respiration explain the13C-enriched sporocarps of ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi?

(2008) B. Boström et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Carbon isotopes in terrestrial ecosystem pools and CO2fluxes

(2008) David R. Bowling et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Stable isotope natural abundances (δ13C and δ15N) of the earthworm Eisenia fetida and other soil fauna living in two different vermicomposting environments

(2007) Luis Sampedro et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

The feeding ecology of elaterid larvae in central European arable land: New perspectives based on naturally occurring stable isotopes

(2007) Michael Traugott et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY