Isotopic investigation of an Australian island environment

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 322, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 713-719

  Gröcke, Darren R ^a,b   Bocherens, Hervé ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Australia.; Collagen; Island; Late; Megafauna; Palaeoecology; Pleistocene; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; DIET; HERBIVORE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAMMAL; PALAEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, KANGAROO ISLAND;

EID: 0029750738     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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