land cover change constitutes one of main way of alteration of soil organic matter in both quantitative and qualitative terms. the goal of this study was to compare the carbon stock and the isotopic signature of the organic matter in the soil of areas with different land use, covered with forest and grass (pasture). the study area is located at sorocaba, sp, brazil. using un-deformed soil sampl...

Diet composition of carbon and nitrogen (C:N) could affect diet-tissue isotopic discrimination and elemental turnover rate in consumers but studies that test the nature of these changes are scarce. We compared carbon and nitrogen isotopic discrimination and turnover rates in individuals of Pallas' long-tongued bats Glossophaga soricina fed diets with protein soya isolate or amaranth grains as t...

[1] Previous work suggests that the relationship between the carbon isotope composition of air (dCa) and plant leaf tissue (dCp) can be used to track changes in the carbon isotope composition of paleo-atmospheric CO2. Here we test this assertion in a series of experiments using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana grown under a range of atmospheric CO2 concentrations relevant to geologic time (...

In this study, stable carbon isotope ratios in the glucose samples were extracted from annual pine tree rings as bio-indicators of contemporary environmental changes in heavily urbanized areas. The sampling sites were located in close proximity to point source pollution emitters, such as a heat and power plant "Łaziska" and steelworks "Huta Katowice" in Silesia (Poland). The analysed samples co...

Seasonal and inter-annual dynamics of growth, non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) and carbon isotope composition (δ(13)C) of NSC were studied in a beech forest of Central Italy over a 2-year period characterized by different environmental conditions. The net C assimilated by forest trees was mainly used to sustain growth early in the season and to accumulate storage carbohydrates in trunk and ro...

The ratio of l*C : 13C was measured for Emiliania huxleyi cells grown under a range of irradiances in batch culture. Based on the assumption that HCO, was the carbon source, the maximum discrimination against 13C in the decalcified E. huxleyi cells was 24.6?& at 4.8 mol photons m-* d-l and the minimum discrimination was 17.9?& at 0.5 mol photons m-* d-l. In calcified cells, the range of 13C iso...

Negative carbon isotope excursions measured in marine and terrestrial substrates indicate large-scale changes in the global carbon cycle, yet terrestrial substrates characteristically record a larger-amplitude carbon isotope excursion than marine substrates for a single event. Here we reconcile this difference by accounting for the fundamental increase in carbon isotope fractionation by land pl...

tolerant cultivars showing less growth reduction than sensitive cultivars under saline conditions (Qian et al., We evaluated leaf C isotope discrimination as affected by salinity 2001; Suplick-Ploense et al., 2002). Growth reduction among three Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) cultivars that differ in their salt tolerance. ‘Moonlight’, ‘NorthStar’, and ‘P-105’ under salt stress could be at...

Understanding the patterns and drivers of carbon isotope discrimination in C(4) species is critical for predicting the effects of global change on C(3)/C(4) ratio of plant community and consequently on ecosystem functioning and services. Cleistogenes squarrosa (Trin.) Keng is a dominant C(4) perennial bunchgrass of arid and semi-arid ecosystems across the Mongolian plateau of the Eurasian stepp...