“…Meanwhile, isotope ratios of Cu have been used to trace Cu dynamics in soils ( Bigalke et al, 2010b ; Fekiacova et al, 2015 ; Babcsányi et al, 2016 ; Vance et al, 2016 ; Kusonwiriyawong et al, 2017 ; Blotevogel et al, 2018 ) and plants ( Weinstein et al, 2011 ; Jouvin et al, 2012 ; Ryan et al, 2013 ; Li et al, 2016 ; Blotevogel et al, 2019 ). While soil processes regulating Cu mobility and speciation, as complexation with organic ligands, redox reactions, and mineral dissolution, induce limited Cu-isotopic fractionation (<1‰), Cu uptake and translocation in plants have been observed to cause large fractionations up to −1.43‰ ( Bigalke et al, 2010a ; Weinstein et al, 2011 ; Jouvin et al, 2012 ; Mathur et al, 2012 ; Ryan et al, 2013 ; Babcsányi et al, 2016 ; Li et al, 2016 ; Blotevogel et al, 2018 , 2019 ).…”