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Isotopes Environ Health Stud ; 45(3): 208-19, 2009 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19507080

RESUMO

Overgrazing often lowers species richness and productivity of grassland communities. For Mongolian grassland ecosystems, a lack of detailed information about food-web structures makes it difficult to predict the effects of overgrazing on species diversity and community composition. We analysed the delta13C and delta15N signatures of herbaceous plants, arthropods (grouped by feeding habit), wild and domestic mammals, and humans in central Mongolia to understand the predominant food-web pathways in this grassland ecosystem. The delta13C and delta15N values of mammals showed little variation within species, but varied considerably with slope position for arthropods. The apparent isotopic discrimination between body tissue and hair of mammals was estimated as 2.0 per thousand for delta13C and 2.1 per thousand for delta15N, which was large enough to cause overestimation of the trophic level of mammals if not taken into account when using hair samples to measure isotopic enrichment.


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Isótopos de Carbono/análise , Cadeia Alimentar , Isótopos de Nitrogênio/análise , Plantas/química , Poaceae , Animais , Animais Domésticos/metabolismo , Animais Selvagens/metabolismo , Artrópodes/química , Artrópodes/metabolismo , Cabelo/química , Cabelo/metabolismo , Mamíferos/metabolismo , Mongólia , Plantas/metabolismo , Poaceae/química
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