Paper’s ALERT : Get that pebble out of my isotopist shoe!

As part of the CESAB-funded research team “Fooδ-webs” led by the excellent Julien Cucherousset (Université de Toulouse), Michelle Jackson (University of Oxford) and Julian Olden (University of Washington), we generated a worldwide estimator dor Carbon and Nitrogen stable isotope baselines for fresh waters. The paper is in press for Methods in Ecology and Evolution and the Git Repository already available.

Perga M.-E, Bouletreau, S., Cucherousset, J., Harrod, C., McIntosh, A., Olden, J., Vagnon, C., Jardine, T. (in press) A Global Estimator of C and N isotope baselines for fresh waters. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10.1111/2041-210x.70225.

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Simulated C and N stable isotope baselines for 472 lakes and 521 rivers worldwide. Simulated site-specific (A) d13C and(B) d15N values for pelagic baselines at the primary consumer level.  Simulated site-specific (C) d13C and (D) d15N values for benthic baselines at the primary consumer level. Standard errors associated with site-specific (E) d13C and (F) d15N values for baseline estimates.