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Stable isotope analysis is an elegant method for reconstructing the dietary niche over integrated timescales, and recovering this information from museum specimens can provide a critical axis of ecological information for studies of population dynamics through time and space. However, isotope ratios of tissues are known to be altered by extended contact with formalin and ethanol.<\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>Here, we assess whether intra\u2010 and interspecific variation in isotopic signature, which represent critical data used to assess metrics of niche diversity, can be reliably recovered following fluid preservation. We use a broad taxonomic distribution of squamates to compare niche metrics prior to and 8\u2009weeks following a standard museum preservation process<\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>We could not recover intraindividual metrics of niche diversity but found that between\u2010individual variation was not significantly altered, allowing for the reconstruction of community niche characteristics<\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>\n                          We present an example isotopic analysis from museum specimens representing generalist and specialist\n                          <jats:italic>Thamnophis<\/jats:italic>\n                          garter snake populations that aligns with empirical estimates of niche width\n                        <\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>We also present several additional analyses on tissue\u2010specific effects, delipification and buffer storage, with useful insights for field collection and downstream analysis decisions.<\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:list-item>\n                    <\/jats:list>\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/1365-2656.70212","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,19]],"date-time":"2026-01-19T08:21:49Z","timestamp":1768810909000},"page":"509-520","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Preservation of stable isotope niche dynamics in squamate museum specimens"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"95","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7104-0494","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maggie R.","family":"Grundler","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California  Berkeley California USA"},{"name":"Museum of Vertebrate Zoology University of California  Berkeley California USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Erica Bree","family":"Rosenblum","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California  Berkeley California USA"},{"name":"Museum of Vertebrate Zoology University of California  Berkeley California USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_10_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0301900"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.0021\u20108790.2004.00861.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tree.2011.01.009"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1086\/343878"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/2041\u2010210X.12620"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1086\/528778"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/rcm.3633"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S0952836902001085"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_10_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1466\u20108238.2008.00405.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_11_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1098\/rspb.2019.0369"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_12_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1420\u20109101.2012.02504.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_13_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0122334"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_14_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/eap.2080"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_15_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/conphys\/coaa001"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_16_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1643\/0045-8511(2002)002[1106:SALTEO]2.0.CO;2"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_17_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ympev.2018.03.011"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_18_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pbio.3001414"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_19_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Grundler M. 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