Baboons, water, and the ecology of oxygen stable isotopes in an arid hybrid zone

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 421-430

  Moritz, Gillian L ^a   Fourie, Nicolaas ^b   Yeakel, Justin D ^c   Phillips Conroy, Jane E ^d   Jolly, Clifford J ^e,f   Koch, Paul L ^c   Dominy, Nathaniel J ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

ARID REGION; FOSSIL RECORD; HYBRIDIZATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HAIR; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PAPIO ANUBIS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DRINKING WATER; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HAIR; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PAPIO ANUBIS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AWASH NATIONAL PARK; ETHIOPIA;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO ANUBIS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS;

EID: 84865485613     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667533     Document Type: Article

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