Environment influences the isotope compositions of body Ca and vertebrate physiology affects these compositions in turn. These observations have allowed recognition of possible applications for Ca isotopes, in the field of medical biology, with the assessment of bone mineral balance in human, and in (palaeo-)ecology for the study of past and present day diets in vertebrates. These applications depend on a better fundamental understanding of causes for these variations. This thesis aims at identifying the main mechanisms responsible for variability of Ca isotope compositions in mammals and human. A solution mode analysis protocol was first developed for MC-ICP-MS. Two methods for microsampling of tooth enamel were then compared in order to i...