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Vincent Balter is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with 34 publications in this field. Within environmental science, their work extensively covers subfields such as ecology, paleontology, anthropology, archeology, and nutrition and dietetics.

The main topics addressed in Balter's research include:

  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Trace Elements in Health
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Radioactive contamination and transfer

Balter has coauthored numerous research papers with frequent collaborators including Emmanuelle Albalat, Jeremy E. Martin, Philippe Télouk, Théo Tacail, and Auguste Hassler. Their collaborative network highlights strong connections within archaeology, geochemistry, and ecological research domains.

They have published regularly in venues such as the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, Goldschmidt conference abstracts (2021 and 2022 editions), Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, and the journal Metallomics. These publication venues indicate a concentration on analytical techniques related to isotopic and elemental analysis alongside archaeological and anthropological studies.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Extensive pedigrees reveal the social organization of a Neolithic community (2023, Nature)
  • Monthly mobility inferred from isoscapes and laser ablation strontium isotope ratios in caprine tooth enamel (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • The mouse metallomic landscape of aging and metabolism (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Calcium isotopic ecology of Turkana Basin hominins (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Inter-comparison of stable iron, copper and zinc isotopic compositions in six reference materials of biological origin (2020, Talanta)

The diversity of these papers reflects an interdisciplinary interest spanning from ancient social structures and mobility patterns of animals to metallomic processes involved in aging and metabolism, integrating methods from isotope chemistry, ecological modeling, and bioarchaeology.

Best Publications

  • Isotopic fractionation and transport mechanisms of Zn in plants

    Frederic Moynier;Sylvain Pichat;Marie-Laure Pons;David Fike

  • Calcium isotope evidence for dramatic increase of continental weathering during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (Early Jurassic)

    Jean-Michel Brazier;Guillaume Suan;Théo Tacail;Laurent Simon

  • Contrasting Cu, Fe, and Zn isotopic patterns in organs and body fluids of mice and sheep, with emphasis on cellular fractionation

    Vincent Balter;Aline Lamboux;Antoine Zazzo;Philippe Télouk

  • Isotopic evidence of unaccounted for Fe and Cu erythropoietic pathways.

    Francis Albarède;Philippe Telouk;Aline Lamboux;Klervia Jaouen

  • Trace elements and their isotopes in bones and teeth: Diet, environments, diagenesis, and dating of archeological and paleontological samples

    Bruno Reynard;Vincent Balter

  • Evidence for dietary change but not landscape use in South African early hominins

    Vincent Balter;José Braga;Philippe Télouk;J. Francis Thackeray

  • Copper isotope effect in serum of cancer patients. A pilot study

    Philippe Télouk;Alain Puisieux;Toshiyuki Fujii;Vincent Balter

  • U–Pb dating of fossil enamel from the Swartkrans Pleistocene hominid site, South Africa

    Vincent Balter;Janne Blichert-Toft;José Braga;Philippe Telouk

  • Extensive pedigrees reveal the social organization of a Neolithic community

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  • Allometric constraints on Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca partitioning in terrestrial mammalian trophic chains

    Vincent Balter

  • Medical applications of Cu, Zn, and S isotope effects

    Francis Albarede;Philippe Télouk;Vincent Balter;Victor P. Bondanese

  • Iron, copper and zinc isotopic fractionation up mammal trophic chains

    Klervia Jaouen;Marie-Laure Pons;Vincent Balter

  • Is aging recorded in blood Cu and Zn isotope compositions

    Klervia Jaouen;Klervia Jaouen;Morgane Gibert;Aline Lamboux;Philippe Telouk

  • Coral bleaching is linked to the capacity of the animal host to supply essential metals to the symbionts.

    Christine Ferrier-Pagès;Lucie Sauzéat;Vincent Balter

  • Fe and Cu stable isotopes in archeological human bones and their relationship to sex.

    Klervia Jaouen;Vincent Balter;Estelle Herrscher;Aline Lamboux

  • Box-modeling of 15N/14N in mammals

    Vincent Balter;Laurent Simon;Hélène Fouillet;Christophe Lécuyer

  • Bodily variability of zinc natural isotope abundances in sheep.

    Vincent Balter;Antoine Zazzo;Aidan P. Moloney;Fred Moynier

  • Oxygen isotope fractionation between apatite-bound carbonate and water determined from controlled experiments with synthetic apatites precipitated at 10–37 °C

    Christophe Lécuyer;Vincent Balter;François Martineau;François Fourel

  • A simplified protocol for measurement of Ca isotopes in biological samples

    Théo Tacail;Emmanuelle Albalat;Philippe Télouk;Vincent Balter

  • Calcium isotopes offer clues on resource partitioning among Cretaceous predatory dinosaurs

    A. Hassler;J. E. Martin;R. Amiot;T. Tacail

  • Ecological and physiological variability of Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca in mammals of West European mid-Würmian food webs

    Vincent Balter;Vincent Balter;Hervé Bocherens;Alain Person;Nathalie Labourdette

  • Carbon and oxygen isotope fractionations between aragonite and calcite of shells from modern molluscs

    Christophe Lécuyer;Aurore Hutzler;Romain Amiot;Valérie Daux

  • Diet and behavior of the Saint-Césaire Neanderthal inferred from biogeochemical data inversion

    Vincent Balter;Laurent Simon

  • Calcium isotopes reveal the trophic position of extant and fossil elasmobranchs

    Jeremy E. Martin;Theo Tacail;Sylvain Adnet;Catherine Girard

  • Magnesium stable isotope ecology using mammal tooth enamel

    Jeremy E. Martin;Jeremy E. Martin;Derek Vance;Vincent Balter

  • Record of climate-driven morphological changes in 376 Ma Devonian fossils

    Vincent Balter;Sabrina Renaud;Catherine Girard;Michael M. Joachimski

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis Albarède
Francis Albarède École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Philippe Telouk
Philippe Telouk École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Christophe Lécuyer
Christophe Lécuyer Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Antoine Zazzo
Antoine Zazzo French National Museum of Natural History
Guillaume Suan
Guillaume Suan University of Lyon System
Bruno Reynard
Bruno Reynard École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Alain Puisieux
Alain Puisieux Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Thure E. Cerling
Thure E. Cerling University of Utah
J.-L. Darlix
J.-L. Darlix Grenoble Alpes University
Olaf Schmidt
Olaf Schmidt University College Dublin

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