Tracking Animal Migration with Stable Isotopes, Second Edition, provides a complete introduction to new and powerful isotopic tools and applications that track animal migration, reviewing where isotope tracers fit in the modern toolbox of tracking methods. The book provides background information on a broad range of migration scenarios in terrestrial and aquatic systems and summarizes the most cutting-edge developments in the field that are revolutionizing the way migrant individuals and populations are assigned to their true origins. It allows undergraduates, graduate students and non-specialist scientists to adopt and apply isotopes to migration research, and also serves as a useful reference for scientists.
The new edition thoroughly updates the information available to the reader on current applications of this technique and provides new tools for the isotopic assignment of individuals to origins, including geostatistical multi-isotope approaches and the ways in which researchers can combine isotopes with routine data in a Bayesian framework to provide best estimates of animal origins. Four new chapters include contributions on applications to the movements of terrestrial mammals, with particular emphasis on how aspects of animal physiology can influence stable isotope values.
Please Note: This is an On Demand product, delivery may take up to 11 working days after payment has been received.
Table of Contents
1. Why study animal Movements? 2. An Introduction to the Light Stable Isotopes for use in Terrestrial Animal Migration Studies 3. Isoscapes: the basis for inferring animal origins and movements using stable isotopes 4. Applying Isotopic Methods to Tracking animal Movements 5. Tracking Bats and other Terrestrial mammals: Considerations of Physiology 6. Isotopic Tracking of Marine and Aquatic Animals 7. Applying Compound-Specific Methods: The Next frontier in Isotopic Tracking of Animals 8. Analysis and design for Isotope based Studies of Migratory Animals 9. Tools for the User: Assigning Animals to Origins using Mixed Models in R: the IsoriX package 10. Future Directions and Challenges for Using Stable Isotopes in Advancing Animal Migration research
