The isotope tracking method successfully reproduced a known chum salmon migration route between the Okhotsk and Bering seas, and the findings suggest the presence of a new migration route to the Bering Sea Shelf during a later growth stage.

bt.matsubayashi.2020

Format

The data frame 80 × 11 contains the following columns:

idcharacterfish identifier
rivercharacterriver of capture
yearintegeryear of capture
monthintegermonth of capture
dayintegerday of capture
ageintegerage of capture (years)
fork_lengthintegerfork length of capture (mm)
section_nointegervertebral bone sections are numbered from the centre of the vertebral centrum and increase toward the margin
d13cnumericd13C bulk (permil)
d15nnumericd15N bulk (permil)

Details

Specimen IDs and a summary of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope results from the vertebral sections of 8 chum salmon.

Instrument: IRMS (isotope ratio mass spectrometer)

Source

Matsubayashi, J., Osada, Y., Tadokoro, K., Abe, Y., Yamaguchi, A., Shirai, K., ... & Tayasu, I. (2020). Tracking long-distance migration of marine fishes using compound-specific stable isotope analysis of amino acids. Ecology Letters23(5), 881--890. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13496

Data availability are available at https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.tx95x69tc

Traversing the paper's information via Semantic Scholar ID 32bf4cf7237572a3559a2d0e32912f93c91774a5 using S2miner package

Author

Liuyong Ding, ly_ding@126.com

Concepts

vertebra, stable isotope, d13C, d15N

Examples

### copy data into 'dat'
dat <- bt.matsubayashi.2020
tibble::tibble(dat)
#> # A tibble: 80 × 11
#>    id    river             year month   day sex     age fork_length section_no  d13c  d15n
#>    <chr> <chr>            <int> <int> <int> <chr> <int>       <int>      <int> <dbl> <dbl>
#>  1 OK1   Nukkibetsu River  2016    12    29 NA       NA          NA          1 -16.6 10.3 
#>  2 OK1   Nukkibetsu River  2016    12    29 NA       NA          NA          2 -16.7 10.4 
#>  3 OK1   Nukkibetsu River  2016    12    29 NA       NA          NA          3 -17.1 10.5 
#>  4 OK1   Nukkibetsu River  2016    12    29 NA       NA          NA          4 -17.0 10.5 
#>  5 OK1   Nukkibetsu River  2016    12    29 NA       NA          NA          5 -17.7  9.38
#>  6 OK1   Nukkibetsu River  2016    12    29 NA       NA          NA          6 -18.2  8.85
#>  7 OK1   Nukkibetsu River  2016    12    29 NA       NA          NA          7 -17.1  9.77
#>  8 OK1   Nukkibetsu River  2016    12    29 NA       NA          NA          8 -18.4  8.65
#>  9 OK1   Nukkibetsu River  2016    12    29 NA       NA          NA          9 -18.5  8.85
#> 10 OK1   Nukkibetsu River  2016    12    29 NA       NA          NA         10 -15.5 12.7 
#> # ℹ 70 more rows

if (FALSE) {

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)

### Carbon stable isotope
ggplot(data = dat, aes(section_no, d13c)) +
  geom_point(aes(colour = id), show.legend = F) +
  geom_line(aes(colour = id), show.legend = F) +
  labs(
    x = "Vertebral section number",
    y = bquote(delta^13 ~C[Bulk]("‰"))
  ) +
  theme_bw() +
  theme(
    panel.grid.major = element_blank(), panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
    panel.background = element_blank(), axis.line = element_line(colour = "black"),
    text = element_text(size = 10), legend.title = element_blank(),
    plot.title = element_text(face = "bold")
  ) +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = 1:10)


### Nitrogen stable isotope
ggplot(data = dat, aes(section_no, d15n)) +
  geom_point(aes(colour = id), show.legend = F) +
  geom_line(aes(colour = id), show.legend = F) +
  labs(
    x = "Vertebral section number",
    y = bquote(delta^15 ~N[Bulk]("‰"))
  ) +
  theme_bw() +
  theme(
    panel.grid.major = element_blank(), panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
    panel.background = element_blank(), axis.line = element_line(colour = "black"),
    text = element_text(size = 10), legend.title = element_blank(),
    plot.title = element_text(face = "bold")
  ) +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = 1:10)
}