Volume 28, Issue 5

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September 2013

Special Feature on Trends in isotope ecology

24 articles in this issue

Preface
Ichiro Tayasu
Nobuhito Ohte
Special Feature 28 July 2013 Pages: 673 - 674
Environmental determinants of food-chain length: a meta-analysis
Gaku Takimoto
David M. Post
Special Feature 26 April 2012 Pages: 675 - 681
Soil organic matter dynamics: a biological perspective derived from the use of compound-specific isotopes studies
Gerd Gleixner
Special Feature Open access 03 February 2013 Pages: 683 - 695
Trophic position estimates of formalin-fixed samples with nitrogen isotopic compositions of amino acids: an application to gobiid fish (Isaza) in Lake Biwa, Japan
Nanako O. Ogawa
Y. Chikaraishi
N. Ohkouchi
Special Feature 06 July 2012 Pages: 697 - 702
Fluvial transport of carbon along the river-to-ocean continuum and its potential impacts on a brackish water food web in the Iwaki River watershed, northern Japan
Tomoya Iwata
Takao Suzuki
Jotaro Urabe
Special Feature 01 May 2013 Pages: 703 - 716
Responses of the carbon and oxygen isotope compositions of desert plants to spatial variation in soil salinity in Central Asia
Naoko Matsuo
Kohei Ojika
Norikazu Yamanaka
Special Feature 16 July 2013 Pages: 717 - 723
Leaf carbon isotope ratio and water use efficiency of urban roadside trees in summer in Kyoto city
Yuichi Kagotani
Kousuke Fujino
Yuko T. Hanba
Special Feature 08 June 2013 Pages: 725 - 734
Patterns of foliar δ¹⁵N and their control in Eastern Asian forests
Yunting Fang
Keisuke Koba
Xueyan Liu
Special Feature 10 March 2012 Pages: 735 - 748
Tracing sources and pathways of dissolved nitrate in forest and river ecosystems using high-resolution isotopic techniques: a review
Nobuhito Ohte
Special Feature 11 March 2012 Pages: 749 - 757
Use of carbon-13 and carbon-14 natural abundances for stream food web studies
Naoto F. Ishikawa
Fujio Hyodo
Ichiro Tayasu
Special Feature 05 January 2013 Pages: 759 - 769
Population dynamics of calanoid copepods in the subtropical mesohaline Danshuei Estuary (Taiwan) and typhoon effects
Delphine Beyrend-Dur
Sami Souissi
Jiang-Shiou Hwang
Original Article 15 June 2013 Pages: 771 - 780
Biomass production, relative competitive ability and water use efficiency of two dominant species in semiarid Loess Plateau under different water supply and fertilization treatments
Bing-Cheng Xu
Wei-Zhou Xu
Jin Huang
Original Article 13 June 2013 Pages: 781 - 792
Effects of nitrogen addition on litter decomposition, soil microbial biomass, and enzyme activities between leguminous and non-leguminous forests
Yanna Lv
Congyan Wang
Xingjun Tian
Original Article 20 June 2013 Pages: 793 - 800
Environmental factors controlling seed germination and seedling recruitment of Stipa bungeana on the Loess Plateau of northwestern China
Xiao Wen Hu
Zhi Qin Zhou
Yan Rong Wang
Original Article 29 June 2013 Pages: 801 - 809
Determinant factors in the seedling establishment of Pasania edulis (Makino) Makino
Mami Nakamura
Ryoko Hirata
Koichi Sone
Original Article Open access 02 July 2013 Pages: 811 - 820
Flower production of Aster tripolium is affected by behavioral differences in livestock species and stocking densities: the role of activity and selectivity
Stefanie Nolte
Peter Esselink
Jan P. Bakker
Original Article 26 June 2013 Pages: 821 - 831
Gross primary productivity of phytoplankton and planktonic respiration in inland floodplain wetlands of southeast Australia: habitat-dependent patterns and regulating processes
Tsuyoshi Kobayashi
Timothy J. Ralph
Simon J. Hunter
Original Article 26 June 2013 Pages: 833 - 843
Combined effects of social pressure from the inside and outside of fishing communities promote cooperation for stock management
Yuto Furuzono
Takashi Yamakawa
Takaomi Kaneko
Original Article 25 June 2013 Pages: 845 - 854
Carbon cycling and sequestration in a Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora) forest on lava flow of Mt. Fuji
Toshiyuki Ohtsuka
Masaya Negishi
Mitsuru Hirota
Original Article 09 July 2013 Pages: 855 - 867
Pollution-related changes in oxidative stress and antioxidant defense profile in the blood of white stork Ciconia ciconia chicks from different regions of Poland
Halyna Tkachenko
Natalia Kurhaluk
Original Article 03 August 2013 Pages: 869 - 880
Assessing noninvasive hair and fecal sampling for monitoring the distribution and abundance of river otter
Chris J. Johnson
Dexter P. Hodder
Shannon Crowley
Original Article 03 August 2013 Pages: 881 - 892
The role of carbon flux and biometric observations in constraining a terrestrial ecosystem model: a case study in disturbed forests in East Asia
Masayuki Kondo
Kazuhito Ichii
Nobuko Saigusa
Original Article 10 August 2013 Pages: 893 - 905
Diurnal bottom feeding of predator fish strengthens trophic cascades to benthic algae in experimental flow-through pools
O. Katano
T. Natsumeda
N. Suguro
Original Article 09 August 2013 Pages: 907 - 918
Why do ants shift their foraging from extrafloral nectar to aphid honeydew?
Noboru Katayama
David H. Hembry
Nobuhiko Suzuki
Original Article 08 August 2013 Pages: 919 - 926

Volume 28, Issue 5

Preface

Environmental determinants of food-chain length: a meta-analysis

Soil organic matter dynamics: a biological perspective derived from the use of compound-specific isotopes studies

Trophic position estimates of formalin-fixed samples with nitrogen isotopic compositions of amino acids: an application to gobiid fish (Isaza) in Lake Biwa, Japan

Fluvial transport of carbon along the river-to-ocean continuum and its potential impacts on a brackish water food web in the Iwaki River watershed, northern Japan

Responses of the carbon and oxygen isotope compositions of desert plants to spatial variation in soil salinity in Central Asia

Leaf carbon isotope ratio and water use efficiency of urban roadside trees in summer in Kyoto city

Patterns of foliar δ¹⁵N and their control in Eastern Asian forests

Tracing sources and pathways of dissolved nitrate in forest and river ecosystems using high-resolution isotopic techniques: a review

Use of carbon-13 and carbon-14 natural abundances for stream food web studies

Population dynamics of calanoid copepods in the subtropical mesohaline Danshuei Estuary (Taiwan) and typhoon effects

Biomass production, relative competitive ability and water use efficiency of two dominant species in semiarid Loess Plateau under different water supply and fertilization treatments

Effects of nitrogen addition on litter decomposition, soil microbial biomass, and enzyme activities between leguminous and non-leguminous forests

Environmental factors controlling seed germination and seedling recruitment of Stipa bungeana on the Loess Plateau of northwestern China

Determinant factors in the seedling establishment of Pasania edulis (Makino) Makino

Flower production of Aster tripolium is affected by behavioral differences in livestock species and stocking densities: the role of activity and selectivity

Gross primary productivity of phytoplankton and planktonic respiration in inland floodplain wetlands of southeast Australia: habitat-dependent patterns and regulating processes

Combined effects of social pressure from the inside and outside of fishing communities promote cooperation for stock management

Carbon cycling and sequestration in a Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora) forest on lava flow of Mt. Fuji

Pollution-related changes in oxidative stress and antioxidant defense profile in the blood of white stork Ciconia ciconia chicks from different regions of Poland

Assessing noninvasive hair and fecal sampling for monitoring the distribution and abundance of river otter

The role of carbon flux and biometric observations in constraining a terrestrial ecosystem model: a case study in disturbed forests in East Asia

Diurnal bottom feeding of predator fish strengthens trophic cascades to benthic algae in experimental flow-through pools

Why do ants shift their foraging from extrafloral nectar to aphid honeydew?

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