Stable Isotopes in Ecology and Environmental Science Book

	List of contributors
	The Methods in Ecology Series
	Introduction
1	Sources of variation in the stable isotopic composition of plants	1
2	Nitrogen isotope studies in forest ecosystems	22
3	Pollution studies using stable isotopes	45
4	Tracing the diets of fossil animals using stable isotopes	63
5	Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane in the atmosphere: abundance and isotopic composition	93
6	The use of stable isotopes for the study of gaseous nitrogen species in marine environments	114
7	Stable isotope ratios as tracers in marine aquatic food webs	138
8	Stable isotopes in the study of marine chemosynthetic-based ecosystems	158
9	Physiology of isotopic fractionation in algae and cyanobacteria	187
10	The use of stable carbon isotopes to study microbial processes in estuaries	222
11	Compound-specific approaches using stable isotopes	241
	References	248
	Index	301