Stable isotopes reveal seasonal competition for resources between late Pleistocene bison (Bison) and horse (Equus) from Rancho La Brea, southern California

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 271, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 153-160

  Feranec, Robert S ^a   Hadly, Elizabeth A ^b   Paytan, Adina ^c  

^a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C 13; Competition; Diet; Enamel; Migration; O 18; Population; Resource partitioning; Species coexistence; Stable isotopes; Ungulata

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARNIVORE; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENAMEL; HERBIVORE; HORSE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MIGRATION; NICHE PARTITIONING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLEISTOCENE; RUMINANT; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; RANCHO LA BREA; UNITED STATES;

BISON; EQUIDAE; EQUUS; MAMMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 57749181991     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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