Ecological changes in Miocene mammalian record show impact of prolonged climatic forcing

C Badgley, JC Barry, ME Morgan… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Isotopic historical trends for 27 mammalian herbivore species, in combination with … The
few lineages that persisted through the vegetation transition show isotopic enrichment of δ 13 C …

Diet, physiology and ecology of fossil mammals as inferred from stable carbon and nitrogen isotope biogeochemistry: implications for Pleistocene bears

H Bocherens, M Fizet, A Mariotti - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 1994 - Elsevier
… in interpreting isotopic abundances from Pleistocene mammals. Because of a 15N-enriched
milk … For instance, in the case of the carbon isotopic values in apatite from herbivores, fossil …

Stable isotope characterization of mammalian predator–prey relationships in a South African savanna

D Codron, J Codron, JA Lee-Thorp… - European Journal of …, 2007 - Springer
… nitrogen isotope data from hair and faeces for a variety of mammalian carnivores and herbivores
… The implication in this study is that larger trophic level 15 N-enrichment almost certainly …

Searching for cover: soil enrichment and herbivore exclusion, not fire, enhance African savanna small‐mammal abundance

BJ Bergstrom, RL Sensenig, DJ Augustine… - Ecosphere, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… small-mammal … -mammal densities with grass height and dead-stem density suggest loss
of cover is a primary driver of large-herbivore suppression of certain savanna small mammals. …

Iron, copper and zinc isotopic fractionation up mammal trophic chains

K Jaouen, ML Pons, V Balter - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
… stable isotope compositions in plants and bones of herbivores and … herbivores, the Zn isotope
compositions are 66 Zn-enriched by about 0.8‰ whereas no significant trophic enrichment

Herbivore paleodiet and paleoenvironmental changes in Chad during the Pliocene using stable isotope ratios of tooth enamel carbonate

A Zazzo, H Bocherens, D Billiou, A Mariotti, M Brunet… - Paleobiology, 2000 - cambridge.org
… In both sites, a variety of dietary preferences was found among herbivorous mammals, from
… The two homi nids were too enriched in 1 3 C to be pure C 3 consumers. Therefore, the C 4 …

Utility of stable isotope analysis in studying foraging ecology of herbivores: examples from moose and caribou

M Ben-David, E Shochat, LG Adams - Alces: A Journal Devoted to …, 2001 - alcesjournal.org
Isotopic models for herbivores provide additional complications because those mammals
values of both ô"C and ö"N, which is consistent with the enriched values we observed in …

Stable isotopic analyses of Laetoli fossil herbivores

JD Kingston - Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution …, 2011 - Springer
… Nitrogen isotope values of ostrich eggshells reflect the isotopic composition of the ostrich’s
diet. For herbivorous animals, the nitrogen isotope enrichment between diet and consumers …

Sources of variation in consumer-diet δ15N enrichment: a meta-analysis

MA Vanderklift, S Ponsard - Oecologia, 2003 - Springer
… abundances of stable nitrogen isotopes. Measurements of δ … Whether on carnivorous or
herbivorous diets, ammonotelic … come from laboratory studies in which animals are a priori fed …

Isotopic biogeochemistry (13C, 15N) of fossil vertebrate collagen: application to the study of a past food web including Neandertal man

M Fizet, B Lange-Badre, B Vandermeersch… - Journal of Human …, 1991 - Elsevier
… way are relative abundances: enrichment or depletion of heavy isotopic varieties (13C, 15N…
European mammals (Table 3) show that the isotopic values of recent and Marillac herbivores