Literature

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.

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.

Pella E., 1990a, Elemental organic analysis. Part 1:Historical Developments. American Laboratory, 22, 3, 116-125.

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.