ReviewOecologia2018
Applying the principles of isotope analysis in plant and animal ecology to forensic science in the Americas.
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- Wildlife trade investigations benefit from multivariate stable isotope analyses.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Determining the Provenance of Traded Wildlife in the Philippines.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Examination of amino acid hydrogen isotope measurements of scalp hair for region-of-origin studies.Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM · 2023Article
- A feather hydrogen (δ2H) isoscape for Brazil.PloS one · 2022Article
- A bioavailable strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isoscape for Aotearoa New Zealand: Implications for food forensics and biosecurity.PloS one · 2022Article
- Application of Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis in Environmental Forensic and Strategic Management Avenue for Pesticide Residues.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Microbiomes in forensic botany: a review.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2021Review
- Seasonal variation in tap water δScientific reports · 2020Article
- Strontium, oxygen, and carbon isotope variation in modern human dental enamel.American journal of physical anthropology · 2020Article
- Geographical assignment of polar bears using multi-element isoscapes.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Evaluation of neodymium isotope analysis of human dental enamel as a provenance indicator using 10Science & justice : journal of the Forensic Science Society · 2019Article
- Tracking cats revisited: Placing terrestrial mammalian carnivores on δ2H and δ18O isoscapes.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
The heart of forensic science is application of the scientific method and analytical approaches to answer questions central to solving a crime: Who, What, When, Where, and How. Forensic practitioners use fundamentals of chemistry and physics to examine evidence and infer its origin. In this regard, ecological researchers have had a significant impact on forensic science through the development and application of a specialized measurement technique-isotope analysis-for examining evidence. Here, we review the utility of isotope analysis in forensic settings from an ecological perspective, concentrating on work from the Americas completed within the last three decades. Our primary focus is on combining plant and animal physiological models with isotope analyses for source inference. Examples of the forensic application of isotopes-including stable isotopes, radiogenic isotopes, and radioisotopes-span from cotton used in counterfeit bills to anthrax shipped through the U.S. Postal Service and from beer adulterated with cheap adjuncts to human remains discovered in shallow graves. Recent methodological developments and the generation of isotope landscapes, or isoscapes, for data interpretation promise that isotope analysis will be a useful tool in ecological and forensic studies for decades to come.
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