Stable isotope series from elephant ivory reveal lifetime histories of a true dietary generalist

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1737, 2012, Pages 2433-2441

  Codron, Jacqueline ^a,b   Codron, Daryl ^a,c,d   Sponheimer, Matt ^d   Kirkman, Kevin ^a   Duffy, Kevin J ^e   Raubenheimer, Erich J ^f   Mélice, Jean Luc ^g   Grant, Rina ^h   Clauss, Marcus ^c   Lee Thorp, Julia A ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

^g INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^h KRUGER NATIONAL PARK   (South Africa)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C4 grass; Kruger national park; Time series; Tusks

Indexed keywords

LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; MAMMALIA;

CARBON; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

ADAPTATION; AGE DETERMINATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTIN; DIET; ELEPHANT; HISTOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOOTH;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AGE DETERMINATION BY TEETH; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; DENTIN; DIET; ELEPHANTS; LINEAR MODELS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SOUTH AFRICA; TOOTH;

EID: 84865604941     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2472     Document Type: Article

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