'White gold' guano fertilizer drove agricultural intensification in the Atacama Desert from ad 1000

F Santana-Sagredo, RJ Schulting, P Méndez-Quiros… - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
The archaeological record shows that large pre-Inca agricultural systems supported
settlements for centuries around the ravines and oases of northern Chile's hyperarid …

The Mediterranean archive of isotopic data, a dataset to explore lifeways from the Neolithic to the Iron Age

M Farese, S Soncin, J Robb, R Fernandes, MA Tafuri - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
We present the open-access Mediterranean Archive of Isotopic dAta (MAIA) dataset, which
includes over 48,000 isotopic measurements from prehistoric human, animal and plant …

A comparison of nitrogen isotope compositions of charred and desiccated botanical remains from northern Peru

P Szpak, KL Chiou - Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2020 - Springer
Isotopic measurements of plant remains from archaeological sites are now routinely used to
reconstruct agricultural practices in the Old World. These studies use charred botanical …

Human palaeodiet at Zamostje 2, central Russia: Results of radiocarbon and stable isotope analyses

J Meadows, O Lozovskaya, M Bondetti… - Quaternary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Only 21 human remains have been identified at Zamostje 2, despite extraordinarily good
conditions for organic preservation, and the recovery of thousands of animal bones from …

C3 plant isotopic variability in a boreal mixed woodland: implications for bison and other herbivores

JZ Metcalfe - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Plant isotopic baselines are critical for accurately reconstructing ancient diets and
environments and for using stable isotopes to monitor ecosystem conservation. This study …

Evolution of woodcutting behaviour in Early Pliocene beaver driven by consumption of woody plants

T Plint, FJ Longstaffe, A Ballantyne, A Telka… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Modern beavers (Castor) are prolific ecosystem engineers and dramatically alter the
landscape through tree harvesting and dam building. Little is known, however, about the …

Assessing the influence of body size on patterns of dietary niche segregation among the ungulate community in Yellowstone National Park, USA

LC Eastham, RS Feranec - Mammalian Biology, 2024 - Springer
Evaluating the factors that promote coexistence between ecologically similar species is
crucial to understanding the evolution and assembly of herbivore communities. The Jarman …

Isotopic evidence for long-distance connections of the AD thirteenth-century promontory caves occupants

JZ Metcalfe, JW Ives, S Shirazi, KP Gilmore… - American …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The Promontory caves (Utah) and Franktown Cave (Colorado) contain high-fidelity records
of short-term occupations by groups with material culture connections to the …

δ13C values of wood and charcoal reveal broad isotopic ranges at the base of the food web

B Philippsen, J Olsen, SA Sørensen, B Måge - Radiocarbon, 2019 - cambridge.org
The aim of this study is to investigate the range, the degree of variability, and a possible time
or species dependence of wood and charcoal δ13C values within one small study area. To …

Changes of carbon-isotope ratios in soil organic matter relative to parent vegetation and site specificity

SL Badea, RE Ionete, D Costinel… - Notulae Botanicae …, 2020 - notulaebotanicae.ro
Investigating the correlation between biodiversity and ecosystem function in natural
environments using carbon-isotope composition (δ 13 C) allows distinguishing the nutrient …