Isotope ModelingStable isotopes are a powerful tool in environmental research. However, isotopic patterns are caused by contributions from many potential pathways of addition and loss. Accordingly, making predictions of isotopic patterns based on analytical or quantitative models of isotope fluxes is increasingly important to improving our ability to understand the natural world from isotopic patterns. Here, we provide links to papers or other websites that use isotopic models to interpret isotopic patterns. Links included below address partitioning dietary components from multiple isotopic data, calculating water flux patterns in vegetation, and interpreting nitrogen isotope patterns in plants from information on symbiotic fungi and inorganic nitrogen availability, as well as links to a generic isotopic model easily adaptable to existing ecosystem models. Relevant Links and Resources:
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