Opinion: Why we need a centralized repository for isotopic data

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706; [email protected].
• ² Center for Stable Isotopes, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131.
• ³ Museum of Southwestern Biology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131.
• ⁴ Instituto de Ciencias Naturales Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta 1270300, Chile.
• ⁵ US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Madison, WI 53706.
• ⁶ Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.
• ⁷ Department of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada E2L 4L5.
• ⁸ Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, WY 82071.
• ⁹ VertNet/iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.
• ¹⁰ Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.
• ¹¹ Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
• ¹² Public Library of Science, San Francisco, CA 94111.
• ¹³ Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012.
• ¹⁴ Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ¹⁵ American Institute of Biological Sciences, Washington, DC 20005.
• ¹⁶ Environment Canada, Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N 3H5.
• ¹⁷ Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758.
• ¹⁸ Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.
• ¹⁹ Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, GA 30602.
• ²⁰ Department of Geography, University of Georgia, GA 30602.
• ²¹ Private address, Oakland, CA 94610.
• ²² Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1.
• ²³ US Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Denver, CO 80225.
• ²⁴ George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030.
• ²⁵ Stable Isotope Facility, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.
• ²⁶ Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 5A3.