Anthropology.net3d ago
A 16th-century Sámi man buried in northern Finland apparently spent part of his youth in Iceland — revealed by anomalous strontium isotopes in his teeth lower than anything measured in Finnish archaeology. New aDNA + isotopes study. #Archaeogenomics #SámiHistory #StableIsotopes https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-kitka-man-went-to-iceland
The Kitka Man Went to Iceland

A 16th-century Sámi burial in northern Finland held the bones of someone who didn't stay in one place

Anthropology.net
Journal of Plant EcologyMay 3

Shuting Yu et al. analyzed the plant #WaterUseSources and intrinsic #WaterUseEfficiency of five #CoexistingDominantTreeSpecies in #TropicalSecondaryRainforests on Hainan Island during the wet season.

#StableIsotopes | #CoexistingTreeSpecies

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf132

Anthropology.netApr 7
New research applies an economics-based inequality metric to isotope data from 12,281 European skeletons—finding persistent male dominance in high-protein consumption across 10,000 years of prehistory and history. #Bioarchaeology #StableIsotopes #FoodInequality https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-protein-gap
The Protein Gap

Bone chemistry from 12,000 Europeans traces a 10,000-year pattern of unequal access to meat—and finds women consistently on the losing end

Anthropology.net
Journal of Plant EcologyFeb 20

By exploring the water use strategies of five dominant tree species in #TropicalSecondaryForests during the wet season, Shuting Yu et al. found that the dominant tree species primarily utilized shallow soil water compared to deeper soil water.

#StableIsotopes | #WaterUseSource | #WaterUseEfficiency | #CoexistingTreeSpecies

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf132

The FSBIFeb 16
Are you interested in using #StableIsotopes in your research and want to learn more? Stable isotope expert, Dr Brian Hayden, is running a series of online courses (more info: https://www.atomicecology.com). Even better, if you are an FSBI or IFM member, there is a 25% discount! You can also apply for our training grant for courses like this, with the next deadline on 1st May (https://fsbi.org.uk/training-grant).
Paul HouleNov 18, 2025

Radiocarbon analysis of turfgrasses can help cities measure greenhouse gas emissions

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-radiocarbon-analysis-turfgrasses-cities-greenhouse.html

#turfgrass #carbon #co2 #isotopes #stableisotopes #cities #climatechange #plants #environment #sensors

Radiocarbon analysis of turfgrasses can help cities measure greenhouse gas emissions

Cities around the world are working to limit emissions of climate-warming greenhouse gases, but there have been few ways of measuring whether those gases are actually decreasing in any given municipality. In new research, University of California, Irvine scientists have created an effective method to measure greenhouse gas emissions around cities—something that can help local governments gauge the effectiveness of their emission-curbing programs.

Phys.org
The FSBIOct 26, 2025

New research assessing resource use as a predictor for #Atlanticsalmon #smolt body size using #StableIsotopes: doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70142 #JFB

http://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70142

Molecular EcologySep 17, 2025

🎉🙌🥳 New paper out!

Human pressure can reduce genetic diversity and elevate trophic position: an arthropod case study

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2025.08.001

#Urbanisation
#Agriculture
#Hemeroby
#Ants
#Spiders
#Microsatellites
#StableIsotopes

Journal of Plant EcologyAug 26, 2025

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Water use patterns of five dominant tree species in #TropicalSecondaryForests

#StableIsotopes | #WaterUseSource | #WaterUseEfficiency | #CoexistingTreeSpecies

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf132

Show threadFemArc e.V.Jul 28, 2025
Neanderthal's high nitrogen values usually lead to them being interpreted as hypercarnivore. But the original study suggests maggots in stored and putrefied meat as cause for the high values:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt7466
Die hohen Stickstoffwerte von Neanderthalern führen üblicherweise dazu, dass sie als Hypercarnivoren bezeichnet werden. Aber die Originalstudie legt Maden aus gelagertem & verrottetem Fleisch als Grund für die hohen Werte nahe.
#archaeology #stableisotopes #neandertal #Palaeolithic