Stable isotope enrichment in laboratory ant colonies: Effects of colony age, metamorphosis, diet, and fat storage

Agriculture & Biology

• ant colonies 100%
• stable isotopes 81%
• metamorphosis 76%
• pupae 53%
• insects 48%
• tuna 48%
• trophic levels 43%
• lipids 41%
• diet 39%
• isotopic enrichment 30%
• developmental stages 27%
• worker ants 26%
• Solenopsis invicta 25%
• diet study techniques 23%
• ecologists 23%
• larvae 23%
• food webs 21%
• isotopes 19%
• Orthoptera 19%
• Araneae 18%
• Formicidae 17%
• herbivores 16%
• mass spectrometry 16%
• animals 16%
• researchers 16%
• Hymenoptera 16%
• immatures 15%
• lipid content 14%
• predators 14%
• sucrose 13%
• carbon 12%
• nitrogen 11%
• organisms 11%
• tissues 8%
• testing 7%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• metamorphosis 96%
• ant 91%
• fat 79%
• diet 68%
• stable isotope 65%
• pupa 50%
• insect 41%
• laboratory 41%
• developmental stage 26%
• trophic level 22%
• larva 20%
• lipid 19%
• effect 18%
• cricket 16%
• animal 14%
• spider 13%
• organic solvent 13%
• nitrogen isotope 12%
• sucrose 12%
• food web 10%
• predator 9%
• mass spectrometry 9%
• isotope 8%
• tissue 7%
• organism 7%
• carbon 6%
• test 4%