Establishing chronologies from isotopic profiles in serially collected animal tissues: An example using tail hairs from African elephants

Chemical Geology

Volumn 267, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 3-11

  Wittemyer, George ^a,c,e   Cerling, Thure E ^b   Douglas Hamilton, Iain ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c SAVE THE ELEPHANTS   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e Department of Fish Wildlife and Conservation Biology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Diet changes; Food web; Hair; Migration; Nitrogen; Seasonality; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; CORRELATION; DIETARY SHIFT; ELEPHANT; ERROR ANALYSIS; HAIR; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MIGRATION; NDVI; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; SEASONALITY; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA;

EID: 69649084681     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.08.010     Document Type: Article

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