Costs of carnivory: Tooth fracture in Pleistocene and recent carnivorans

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 68-81

  Van Valkenburgh, Blaire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnivora; Diet; Feeding behaviour; Paleoecology; Skeletal injury

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORY; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD QUALITY; INJURY; MAMMAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; TOOTH;

CARNIVORA; MAMMALIA; MUSTELINAE;

EID: 58149083315     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01108.x     Document Type: Article

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