Effects of fixatives on stable isotopes of fish muscle tissue: implications for trophic studies on preserved specimens
Durante LM, AJM Sabadel, RD Frew, T Ingram, and SR Wing. (2020)
Ecological Applications
Highlights
Provides a method for resolving trophic level and food web position from museum preserved samples
Here we are able to measure how food web structure of New Zealand’s commercial fish species have changed over the last 80-90 years
The method will be a key step for a series of analyses and papers on the changing food web structure of QMS species in New Zealand, with important implication for ecosystem-based management (EBM).
Ecosystem connectivity: tracking biochemical fluxes to inform EBM
We traced the fate of water and sediments from land through coastal food webs, evaluating connections between coastal and deep sea habitats, and identified the effects of key coastal developments (such as aquaculture) on food web connectivity.
