Stable carbon isotope reconstructions of diet and paleoenvironment from the late Middle Pleistocene Snake Cave in Northeastern Thailand

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 299-309

  Pushkina, Diana ^a   Bocherens, Herve ^b   Chaimanee, Yaowalak ^c   Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Department of Mineral Resources ^*  (Thailand)

Author keywords

C4 spread; Middle Pleistocene; Serow; Thailand

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON ISOTOPE; DIET; FOREST COVER; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SNAKE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOOTH; UNDERSTORY;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CARNIVORA; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ELEPHANT; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; MAMMAL; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANT; SEASON; SWINE; THAILAND; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARNIVORA; ECOSYSTEM; ELEPHANTS; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HYAENIDAE; MAMMALS; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANTS, EDIBLE; RUMINANTS; SEASONS; SWINE; THAILAND; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

THAILAND;

BOVIDAE; CERVIDAE; MAMMALIA; NAEMORHEDUS SUMATRAENSIS; PONGO PYGMAEUS; RHINOCEROTIDAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 77949425063     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-009-0642-6     Document Type: Article

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