Reframing the mammoth steppe: insights from analysis of isotopic niches

R Schwartz-Narbonne, FJ Longstaffe… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), horse (Equus spp.) and bison (Bison spp.)
coexisted with a variety of mammalian megafauna across the Pleistocene mammoth steppe …

The isotopic ecology of the mammoth steppe

DG Drucker - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The Mammoth Steppe was the dominant terrestrial biome of the Northern Hemisphere
during the late Pleistocene. It encompassed a nonanalog community of animals living in a …

Small‐mammal isotope ecology tracks climate and vegetation gradients across western North America

TM Smiley, JM Cotton, C Badgley, TE Cerling - Oikos, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Stable carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen isotopes have been used to infer aspects of
species ecology and environment in both modern ecosystems and the fossil record …

Life histories and niche dynamics in late Quaternary proboscideans from midwestern North America

C Widga, G Hodgins, K Kolis, S Lengyel… - Quaternary …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Stable isotopes of mammoths and mastodons have the potential to illuminate ecological
changes in late Pleistocene landscapes and megafaunal populations as these species …

Isotopic niche variation from the Holocene to today reveals minimal partitioning and individualistic dynamics among four sympatric desert mice

RC Terry - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Species interact with each other and their environment over a range of temporal scales, yet
our understanding of resource partitioning and the mechanisms of species coexistence is …

Solving the woolly mammoth conundrum: amino acid 15N-enrichment suggests a distinct forage or habitat

R Schwartz-Narbonne, FJ Longstaffe, JZ Metcalfe… - Scientific Reports, 2015 - nature.com
Understanding woolly mammoth ecology is key to understanding Pleistocene community
dynamics and evaluating the roles of human hunting and climate change in late Quaternary …

Studying animal niches using bulk stable isotope ratios: an updated synthesis

ON Shipley, P Matich - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
The development of the isotopic niche, an n-dimensional hypervolume (with n being the
number of isotopes) occupied by a population in delta space, has revolutionized the study of …

Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction leads to missing pieces of ecological space in a North American mammal community

FA Smith, EA Elliott Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The conservation status of large-bodied mammals is dire. Their decline has serious
consequences because they have unique ecological roles not replicated by smaller-bodied …

Isotopic biogeochemistry and the palaeoecology of the mammoth steppe fauna

H Bocherens - Deinsea, 2003 - natuurtijdschriften.nl
The ecological structure of the mammoth steppe fauna remains quite unclear. Stable isotope
biogeochemistry of fossil collagen can help determining the discrimination in food resources …

Late Pleistocene mammoth herd structure, migration patterns, and Clovis hunting strategies inferred from isotopic analyses of multiple death assemblages

KA Hoppe - Paleobiology, 2004 - cambridge.org
Many late Pleistocene fossil localities contain the remains of multiple mammoths. Some of
these sites have been interpreted as representing the mass death of an entire herd, or family …