Sentences with phrase «from stable isotope analysis»

Variation in winter diet of southern Beaufort Sea polar bears inferred from stable isotope analysis

The wolf's diet (from stable isotope analysis) was made up of deer, not grain, and although its teeth were worn, there is no direct evidence that this wolf was part of the community.

It is not yet technically possible to determine whether an extinct animal chewed the cud from stable isotope analysis, although this approach may someday prove to be useful in determining whether a particular fossil indicates a ruminant digestion.

Not exact matches

Analyses of samples brought back from the Apollo missions in the 1970s showed that the Moon has the same abundances of the three stable isotopes of oxygen as Earth.

Using osteobiography and paleopathology methods as well as stable isotope analysis and mass spectrometry on about 500 skeletons from the dairy - farming area, they have been able to reconstruct the group's diet, disease and overall health.

Analysis of the stable isotope control data was funded in part by a grant from the Fishmongers» Company, one of London's medieval Livery Companies, which retains responsibility for quality control at London's Billingsgate fish market.

The study by Louie Yang (Dept. Entomology at UC - Davis) used stable hydrogen isotope analysis to test tissue samples from 114 butterflies at 4 overwintering locations.

Budd, P., Millard, A., Chenery, C., Lucy, S. & Roberts, C. Investigating population movement by stable isotope analysis: a report from Britain.

Stable carbon isotope ratio analyses on trace methane from ice samples.

Some researchers have correlated climatic variation from tree ring analyses (Garfinkel and Brubaker [1980]; Briffa et al. [1990]; Villalba [1990]-RRB- and from the analysis of variations in the stable isotopes of carbon (Panek and Waring [1997]-RRB-.

Change of diet of the Greenland Vikings determined from stable carbon isotope analysis and 14C dating of their bones.

Polar bears make little use of terrestrial food webs: Evidence from stable - carbon isotope analysis