Using DNA metabarcoding to identify floral visitation by pollinators

A Lowe, L Jones, L Witter, S Creer, N de Vere - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
The identification of floral visitation by pollinators provides an opportunity to improve our
understanding of the fine-scale ecological interactions between plants and pollinators …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing contemporary Arctic habitat availability for a woolly mammoth proxy

J Poquérusse, CL Brown, C Gaillard, C Doughty… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Interest continues to grow in Arctic megafaunal ecological engineering, but, since the mass
extinction of megafauna~ 12–15 ka, key physiographic variables and available forage …

Was the steppe bison a grazing beast in Pleistocene landscapes?

E Hofman-Kamińska, G Merceron… - Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The history and palaeoecology of the steppe bison (Bison priscus) remain incompletely
understood despite its widespread distribution. Using dental microwear textural analysis …

Proboscideans on parade: A review of the migratory behaviour of elephants, mammoths, and mastodons

WJ Bonhof, AJE Pryor - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The ecology and behaviour of woolly and Columbian mammoths and mastodons have been
extensively studied. Despite this, their patterns of mobility, and particularly the question of …

[图书][B] Reindeer hunters of the Ice Age in Europe

L Fontana - 2022 - Springer
This book by Laure Fontana is a remarkable work, synthesizing over 20 years of her own
research on reindeer in France as well as the work by many other researchers. It is nothing …

Minimally destructive radiocarbon dating of caprine dung

D Fuks, N O'Neill-Munro, PJ Reimer, T Erickson-Gini… - …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Archaeological dung pellets are time capsules of ancient herbivore diets and gut flora,
informing on past agropastoral activity, ecology, and animal health. Improving multi-proxy …

Pollen and microplastics in hedgehog (Erinaceus europeaus) faeces as a means to identify landscape use in urban and sub-urban environments of the United …

K Webber, J McCoy, A Rogers, MT Prendergast-Miller… - …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Within the UK, the western European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) has suffered a long-
term population decline to the point of being considered vulnerable to extinction in Great …

[HTML][HTML] Pollen reveals the diet and environment of an extinct Pleistocene giant deer from the Netherlands

WO van der Knaap, B van Geel… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2024 - Elsevier
Pollen analysis of five teeth (two premolars, three molars) from a single maxilla of a giant
deer (Megaloceros giganteus) found in Pleistocene deposits in The Netherlands reflects the …

[PDF][PDF] Determining Dietary Variation and its Palaeoecological Implications of Mammuthus

R Douglas - Quaternary Geochronology, 2024 - helda.helsinki.fi
Despite their reputation as one of the most commonly known prehistoric animals of the
Pleistocene, variations within the woolly mammoth's (Mammuthus primigenius, Blumenbach …

[PDF][PDF] Late Pleistocene mummified mammals

O Potapova, E Potapov - 2024 - researchgate.net
The article reviews key milestones of more than 200 years of study of late Pleistocene (MIS3–
2) mammal mummies with an emphasis on woolly mammoth, which dominates the sample …