Table 5. Mean Measure of Difference values for four isotopic systems of interest.
Isotopic system | Average pairwise difference (‰) | Average intra-laboratory standard deviation (‰) | MMD (‰) |
δ13Cap | 0.6 | 0.15 | 1.2 |
δ18Oap | 2 | 0.28 | 3.1 |
δ13Ccol | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
δ15Ncol | 0.4 | 0.13 | 0.9 |