Stable isotopes as indicators of ecological change / edited by Todd E. Dawson, Rolf T.W. Siegwolf.

Sect. 1. Ecological isotope archives Ch. 1. Using stable isotopes as indicators, tracers, and recorders of ecological change : some context and background / Todd E. Dawson and Rolf T. W. Siegwolf Ch. 2. Stable isotopes record ecological change, but a sampling network will be critical / James R. Ehleringer and Todd E. Dawson Sect. 2. Plant-based isotope data as indicators of ecological change Ch. 3. Extracting climatic information from stable isotopes in tree rings / Neil J. Loader, Danny McCarroll, Mary Gagen, Iain Robertson and Risto Jalkanen Ch. 4. Human impacts on tree-ring growth reconstructed from stable isotopes / Matthias Sourer and Rolf T. W. Siegwolf Ch. 5. Oxygen isotope proxies in tree-ring cellulose : tropical cyclones, drought, and climate oscillations / Claudia I. Mora, Dana L. Miller and Henri D. Grissino-Mayer Ch. 6. The stable isotopes [delta][superscript 13]C and [delta][superscript 18]O of lichens can be used as tracers of microenvironmental carbon and water sources / Michael Lakatos, Britta Hartard and Cristina Maguas Ch. 7. Foliar [delta][superscript 15]N values as indicators of foliar uptake of atmospheric nitrogen pollution / Dena M. Vallano and Jed P. Sparks Ch. 8. The triple isotopic composition of oxygen in leaf water and its implications for quantifying biosphere productivity / A. Landais, D. Yakir, E. Barkan and B. Luz Sect. 3. Animal-based isotope data as indicators of ecological change Ch. 9. An isotopic exploration of the potential of avian tissues to track changes in terrestrial and marine ecosystems / Keith A. Hobson Ch. 10. Use of the stable isotope composition of fish scales for monitoring aquatic ecosystems / Clive N. Trueman and Andy Moore Ch. 11. The reaction progress variable and isotope turnover in biological systems / Thure E. Cerling, Gabriel J. Bowen, James R. Ehleringer and Matt Sponheimer Ch. 12. Insight into the trophic ecology of yellowfin tuna, Thunnus Albacares, from compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of proteinaceous amino acids / Brian N. Popp, Brittany S. Graham, Robert J. Olson, Cecelia C. S. Hannides, Michael J. Lott, Gladis A. Lopez-Ibarra, Felipe Galvan-Magana and Brian Fry Sect. 4. Isotope composition of trace gasses, sediments and biomarkers as indicators of change Ch. 13. Temporal dynamics in [delta][superscript 13]C of ecosystem respiration in response to environmental changes / Christiane Werner, Stephan Unger, Joao S. Pereira, Jaleh Ghashghaie and Cristina Maguas Ch. 14. To what extent can ice core data contribute to the understanding of plant ecological developments of the past? / Markus Leuenberger Ch. 15. The global methane budget over the last 2000 years : [superscript 13]CH[subscript 4] reveals hidden information / James W. C. White, Dominic F. Ferretti, John B. Miller, David M. Etheridge, Keith R. Lassey, David C. Lowe, Cecelia M. MacFarling, Mark F. Dreier, Cathy M. Trudinger and Tas van Ommen Ch. 16. Compound-specific hydrogen isotope ratios of biomarkers : tracing climatic changes in the past / Gerd Gleixner and Ines Mugler Ch. 17. Stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in recent sediments of Lake Wigry, NE Poland : implications for lake morphometry and environmental changes / Anna Paprocka Sect. 5. Humans, isotopes and ecological change Ch. 18. Stable isotopes and human water resources : signals of change / Gabriel J. Bowen, Thure E. Cerling and James R. Ehleringer Ch. 19. The use of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes to track effects of land-use changes in the Brazilian Amazon region / Luiz Antonio Martinelli, Jean Pierre Henry Balbauld Ometto, Francoise Yoko Ishida, Tomas Ferreira Domingues, Gabriela Bielefeld Nardoto, Rafael Silva Oliveira and James R. Ehleringer Ch. 20. Reconstruction of climate and crop conditions in the past based on the carbon isotope signature of archaeobotanical remains / Juan Pedro Ferrio, Jordi Voltas, Natalia Alonso and Jose Luis Araus Ch. 21. Change of the origin of calcium in forest ecosystems in the twentieth century highlighted by natural SR isotopes / Thomas Drouet, Jacques Herbauts and Daniel Demaiffe Sect. 6. New challenges and frontiers : biodiversity, ecological change and stable isotope networks Ch. 22. Addressing the functional value of biodiversity for ecosystem functioning using stable isotopes / Ansgar Kahmen and Nina Buchmann Ch. 23. The future of large-scale stable isotope networks / D. Hemming, H. Griffiths, N. J. Loader, A. Marca, I. Robertson, D. Williams, L. Wingate and D. Yakir Ch. 24. Applications of stable isotope measurements for early-warning detection of ecological change / David G. Williams, R. David Evans, Jason B. West and James R. Ehleringer Ch. 25. Stable isotopes as indicators, tracers, and recorders of ecological change : synthesis and outlook / Kevin P. Tu, Gabriel J. Bowen, Debbie Hemming, Ansgar Kahmen, Alexander Knohl, Chun-Ta Lai and Christiane Werner.

The 20th century has experienced environmental changes that appear to be unprecedented in their rate and magnitude during the Earths history. For the first time, this special volume brings together a wide range of perspectives and data that speak directly to the issues of ecological change using stable isotope tracers. The information presented originates from a range of biological and geochemical sources and from research fields within biological, climatological and physical disciplines covering time-scales from days to centuries. Unlike any other reference, editors discuss where isotope data can detect, record, trace and help to interpret environmental change. * Provides researchers with ground-breaking data on how to predict the terrestrial ecosystems response to the ongoing rapid alterations * Reveals how ecosystems have responded to environmental and biotic fluctuations in the past * Includes examples from research by a wide range of biological and physical scientists who are using isotopic records to both detect and interpret environmental change

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