Splitting hairs: dietary niche breadth modelling using stable isotope analysis of a sequentially grown tissue

Rogers, Matthew C.; Hilderbrand, Grant V.; Gustine, David D.; Joly, Kyle; Leacock, William B.; Mangipane, Buck A.; Welker, Jeffrey M.

doi:10.1080/10256016.2020.1787404

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Splitting hairs: dietary niche breadth modelling using stable isotope analysis of a sequentially grown tissue

2020
By Rogers, Matthew C. ; Hilderbrand, Grant V. ; Gustine, David D. ; ...
Source: Isotopes Environ Health Stud. 2020 Aug;56(4):358-369

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Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies
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Rogers, Matthew C. ; Hilderbrand, Grant V. ; Gustine, David D. ; Joly, Kyle ; Leacock, William B. ; ... More +

Rogers, Matthew C. ; Hilderbrand, Grant V. ; Gustine, David D. ; Joly, Kyle ; Leacock, William B. ; Mangipane, Buck A. ; Welker, Jeffrey M. Less -
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Stable isotope data from durable, sequentially grown tissues (e.g. hair, claw, and baleen) is commonly used for modelling dietary niche breadth. The use of tissues grown over multiple months to years, however, has the potential to complicate isotopic niche breadth modelling, as time-averaged stable isotope signals from whole tissues may obscure information available from chronologically resolved stable isotope signals in serially sectioned tissues.We determined if whole samples of brown bear guard hair produced different isotopic niche breadth estimates than those produced from subsampled, serially sectioned samples of the same tissue from the same set of individuals. We sampled guard hair from brown bears (Ursus arctos) in four regions of Alaska with disparate biogeographies and dietary resource availability. Whole hair and serially sectioned hair samples were used to produce paired isotopic dietary niche breadth estimates for each region in the SIBER Bayesian model framework in R.Isotopic data from seriallysectioned hair consistently produced larger estimates of isotopic dietary niche breadth than isotope data from whole hair samples. Serial sampling captures finer-scale changes in diet and when cumulatively used to estimate isotopic niche breadth, the serially sampled isotope data more fully captures dietary variability and true isotopic niche breadth.
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Bayesian Statistical Decision Theory Brown Bear Food Chains (Ecology) Guard Hair Keratin Carbon-13 Food Webs Keratinous Tissues Modelling Nitrogen-15 Population Ecology
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Isotopes Environ Health Stud. 2020 Aug;56(4):358-369
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