Nutritional stress by means of high C:N ratios in the diet and starvation affects nitrogen isotope ratios and trophic fractionation of omnivorous copepods
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DOI: 10.1007/s00442-019-04438-5
Abstract: Nutritional stress, from feeding on low-quality diets or starvation, may cause changes in consumers’ nitrogen isotope ratios (δ15N = 15N/14N) and trophic fractionation (∆15N = δ15Nconsumer − δ15Nfood source), however, research has shown mixed results in the magnitude and the direction… read more here.
Keywords: nitrogen isotope; starvation; nutritional stress; isotope ratios ... See more keywords