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Dominik Martin-creuzburg
Stable isotopes of fatty acids: current and future perspectives for advancing trophic ecology
To understand consumer dietary requirements and resource use across ecosystems, researchers have employed a variety of methods, including bulk stable isotope and fatty acid composition analyses. Compound-specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA) of fatty acids combines both of these tools into an even more powerful method with the capacity to broaden our understanding of food web ecology and nutritional dynamics. Here, we provide an overview of the potential that CSIA studies hold and their constraints. We first review the use of fatty acid CSIA in ecology at the natural abundance level as well as enriched physiological tracers, and highlight the unique insights that CSIA of fatty acids can p…
DifferingDaphnia magnaassimilation efficiencies for terrestrial, bacterial, and algal carbon and fatty acids
There is considerable interest in the pathways by which carbon and growth-limiting elemental and biochemical nutrients are supplied to upper trophic levels. Fatty acids and sterols are among the most important molecules transferred across the plant-animal interface of food webs. In lake ecosystems, in addition to phytoplankton, bacteria and terrestrial organic matter are potential trophic resources for zooplankton, especially in those receiving high terrestrial organic matter inputs. We therefore tested carbon, nitrogen, and fatty acid assimilation by the crustacean Daphnia magna when consuming these resources. We fed Daphnia with monospecific diets of high-quality (Cryptomonas marssonii) a…
Differing Daphnia magna assimilation efficiencies for terrestrial, bacterial, and algal carbon and fatty acids
There is considerable interest in the pathways by which carbon and growthlimiting elemental and biochemical nutrients are supplied to upper trophic levels. Fatty acids and sterols are among the most important molecules transferred across the plant–animal interface of food webs. In lake ecosystems, in addition to phytoplankton, bacteria and terrestrial organic matter are potential trophic resources for zooplankton, especially in those receiving high terrestrial organic matter inputs. We therefore tested carbon, nitrogen, and fatty acid assimilation by the crustacean Daphnia magna when consuming these resources. We fed Daphnia with monospecific diets of high-quality (Cryptomonas marssonii) an…
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Appendix C. Results of Cox regression survival analysis of experiments.
Results of Cox regression survival analysis of experiments.
Appendix E. Principal component analysis of diets and Daphnia.
Principal component analysis of diets and Daphnia.
Appendix A. Detailed concentration information of added nutrients in batch and life table experiments.
Detailed concentration information of added nutrients in batch and life table experiments.
Appendix B. Fatty acid and sterol profiles of terrestrial particulate organic carbon (t-POC), bacteria, and phytoplankton diets.
Fatty acid and sterol profiles of terrestrial particulate organic carbon (t-POC), bacteria, and phytoplankton diets.
Appendix D. Correlations between different nutrients of diets and offspring and body size of Daphnia.
Correlations between different nutrients of diets and offspring and body size of Daphnia.
Appendix F. The parameter estimates of t-POC diets for power functions.
The parameter estimates of t-POC diets for power functions.