Studying Ecosystem, Environmental, and Climate Changes using Stable Isotopes
For general understanding:
- Stable Isotope Geochemistry (Jochen Hoefs, Springer)
- Principles of Stable Isotope Geochemistry (Zachary Sharp, University of New Mexico)
- Isotopes: Principles and Applications (Gunter Faure and Teresa M. Mensing, Wiley)
- Stable Isotope Ecology (Brian Fry, Springer)
Water cycles:
- Isoscapes (Jason West, Gabriel J. Bowen, Todd E. Dawson, and Kevin P. Tu, Springer)
- Environmental Isotopes in Hydrogeology (Ian Clark and Peter Fritz, CRC Press LLC)
- Dansgaard, W. (1964) Stable isotopes in precipitation. Tellus, XVI, 436-468.
- Rozanski, K., Araguás-Araguás, L., Gonfiantini, R. (1993) Isotopic patterns in modern global precipitation. American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph, 78, 1-35.
- Araguás-Araguás, L., Froehlich, K., Rozanski, K. (2000) Deuterium and oxygen-18 isotope composition of precipitation and atmospheric moisture. Hydrological Processes, 14, 1341-1355.
- Longstaffe, F.J. (2003) Isotopic methods in sedimentology. In Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks. (G.V. Middleton, Kluwer Academic Publishers) pp. 385-397.
Soil:
- Mass Spectrometry of Soils (Thomas Boutton, CRC Press)
- Farquhar, G.D., Ehleringer, J.R., Hubick, K.T. (1989) Carbon isotope discrimination and photosynthesis, Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology, 40, 503-537.
- Nadelhofferm, K.J. and Fry, B. (1994) Nitrogen isotope studies in forest ecosystems. In Stable Isotopes in Ecology, Chapter 2. (K. Lajtha and R. Michener, Blackwell Scientific Publications) pp. 22-44.
- Fogel M.L. and Cifuentes, L.A. (1999) Isotope fractionation during primary production. In Organic Geochemistry (M. H. Engel and S. A. Macko, Plenum) pp. 73-98.
- O’Leary, M.H. (1988) Carbon isotopes in photosynthesis. BioScience, 38, 5, 328-336.
- Tipple, B.J. and Pagani, M. (2007) The early origins of terrestrial C4 photosynthesis. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science, 35, 435-461.
- Oelbermann, M. and Voroney, R.P. (2007) Carbon and nitrogen in a temperate agroforestry system: Using stable isotopes as a tool to understand soil dynamics. Ecological Engineering, 29, 342-349.
Atmosphere:
Food web:
- Ambrose, S.H. (1993) Isotopic analysis of paleodiets: Methodological and interpretive considerations
- DeNiro, M.J. and Epstein, S. (1978) Influence of diet on the distribution of carbon isotopes in animals
- Schoeninger, M.J. and DeNiro, M.J. (1984) Nitrogen and carbon isotopic composition of bone collagen from marine and terrestrial animals.
- Hobson, K.A. (1999) Tracing origins and migration of wildlife using stable isotopes: a review.
Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer (IRMS)
- Brenna, J.T., Corso, T.N., Tobias, H.J., and Caimi, R.J. (1997) High-precision continuous-flow isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Mass Spectrometry Reviews, 16, 227-258.
- Paul, D. Skrzypek, G., and Fórizs, I. (2007) Normalization of measured stable isotopic compositions to isotope reference scales – a review. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 21, 3006-3014.
EA (Elemental Analyzer)
- Pella E., 1990a, Elemental organic analysis. Part 1:Historical Developments. American Laboratory, 22, 3, 116-125.
TCEA (High Temperature Conversion / Elemental Analyzer)
- Gehre, M. and Strauch, G. (2003) High-temperature elemental analysis and pyrolysis techniques for stable isotope analysis. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 17, 1497-1503.