This chapter briefly considers the future of stable isotope ecology. The future may hold advances in technology, a more routine use of multiple chemical markers in ecological investigations, and more of that essential scientific ingredient, imagination.
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Fry, B. (2006). Scanning the Future. In: Stable Isotope Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-33745-8_8
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