Data from: Environmental correlates of large-scale spatial variation in the δ13C of marine animals (and related published studies of carbon and nitrogen isotopic baselines) ...

• Main Authors: Barnes, Carolyn, Jennings, Simon, Barry, Jon T.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2016
• Subjects: Aequipecten opercularis; stable isotope analysis; isoscape; isotopic baseline; Carbon; Holocene; Marine; Jennings; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.sj4fn; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.sj4fn

Carbon stable isotopes can be used to trace the sources of energy supporting food chains and to estimate the contribution of different sources to a consumer’s diet. However, the δ13C signature of a consumer is not sufficient to infer source without an appropriate isotopic baseline, because there is...