Publications by authors named "Megan M Skinner"

Rationale: Stable isotope analysis (SIA) is a powerful tool for examining diet and food-web dynamics. SIA assumes "you are what you eat" relative to carbon (C) and nitrogen (N). However, fractionation of carbon during lipid synthesis violates this assumption; high-lipid tissues do not reflect δ(13) C values of diet and therefore have the potential to skew mixing model results and diet interpretations, making corrections necessary.

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