The effect of paleoecology and paleobiogeography on stable isotopes of Quaternary mammals from South America

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 55, Issue , 2012, Pages 103-113

  Domingo, Laura ^a   Prado, José Luis ^b   Alberdi, María Teresa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Large mammals; Paleobiogeography; Paleoecology; Quaternary; South America; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SOUTH AMERICA; STABLE ISOTOPES;

ECOLOGY; MAMMALS;

ISOTOPES;

CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY; STABLE ISOTOPE;

SOUTH AMERICA;

CUVIERONIUS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS; HIPPIDION; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84866840667     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.08.017     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Alberdi M.T., Prado J.L. El registro de Hippidion Owen, 1869 y Equus (Amerhippus) Hoffstetter, 1950 (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) en América del Sur. Ameghiniana 1992, 29:265-284.
2. Alberdi M.T., Prado J.L. Los mastodontes de América del Sur. Evolución biológica y climática de la Región Pampeana durante los últimos 5 millones de años, Monografías 1995, vol. 12:277-292. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid.
3. Araguas-Araguas L., Froehlich K., Rozanski K. Deuterium and oxygen-18 isotope composition of precipitation and atmospheric moisture. Hydrol. Process. 2000, 14:1341-1355.
4. Bassett D., MacLeod K.G., Miller J.F., Ethington R.L. Oxygen isotopic composition of biogenic phosphate and the temperature of Early Ordovician seawater. Palaios 2007, 22:98-103.
5. Bershaw J., Garzione C.N., Higgins P., MacFadden B.J., Anaya F., Alvarenga H. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2010, 289:530-538.
6. Bird M.I., Haberle S.G., Chivas A.R. Effect of altitude on the carbon-isotope composition of forest and grassland soils from Papua New Guinea. Glob. Biogeochem. Cycl. 1994, 8:13-22.
7. 2. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 2002, 177:151-168.
8. Bryant J.D., Froelich P.N. A model of oxygen isotope fractionation in body water of large mammals. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1995, 59:4523-4537.
9. Bryant J.D., Koch P.L., Froelich P.N., Showers W.J., Genna B.J. Oxygen isotope partitioning between phosphate and carbonate in mammalian apatite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1996, 60:5145-5148.
10. Cajal J., Tonni E.P., Tartarini V. The extinction of some South American camelids: the case of Lama (Vicugna) gracilis. Mastozool. Neotrop. 2010, 17:129-134.
11. Cerling T.E., Harris J.M. Carbon isotope fractionation between diet and bioapatite in ungulate mammals and implications for ecological and paleoecological studies. Oecologia 1999, 120:347-363.
12. Cione A.L., Tonni E.P., Soibelzon L. Did humans cause the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene mammalian extinctions in South America in a context of shrinking open areas?. American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene 2009, 125-144. Springer, Netherlands. G. Haynes (Ed.).
13. Dansgaard W. Stable isotopes in precipitation. Tellus XVI 1964, 4:436-468.
14. Dompierre H., Churcher C.S. Premaxillary shape as an indicator of the diet of seven extinct Late Cenozoic New World camels. J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 1996, 16:141-148.
15. 4 grasses. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2010, 107:2532-2537.
16. Ehleringer J.R., Monson R.K. Evolutionary and ecological aspects of photosynthetic pathway variation. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 1993, 24:411-439.
17. Farquhar G.D., Ehleringer J.R., Hubick K.T. Carbon isotopic discrimination and photosynthesis. Ann. Rev. Plant Biol. 1989, 40:503-537.
18. Flynn J.J., Kowallis B.J., Nuñez C., Carranza-Castañeda O., Miller W.E., Swisher C.C., Lindsay E. Geochronology of Hemphillian-Blancan aged strata, Guanajuato, Mexico, and implications for timing of the Great American Biotic Interchange. J. Geol. 2005, 113:287-307.
19. 2 in the past two centuries. Nature 1986, 324:237-238.
20. Garzione C.N., Hoke G.D., Libarkin J.C., Withers S., MacFadden B., Eiler J., Ghosh P., Mulch A. Rise of the Andes. Science 2008, 320:1304-1307.
21. 18O bonds in paleosol carbonates. Science 2006, 311:511-515.
22. Gregory-Wodzicki K.M. Uplift history of the central and northern Andes: a review. GSA Bull. 2000, 112:1091-1105.
23. Guérin G., Faure M. Scelidodon piauiense nov. sp., nouveau Mylodontidae Scelidotheriinae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) du Quaternaire de la région du parc national Serra da Capivara (Piauí, Brésil). C. R. Palevol. 2004, 3:35-42.
24. Hayes J.M. Fractionation of carbon and hydrogen isotopes in biosynthetic processes. Rev. Mineral. Geochem. 2001, 43:225-277.
25. Hooghiemstra H., van der Hammen T. Quaternary Ice-Age dynamics in the Colombian Andes: developing an understanding of our legacy. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2004, 359:173-181.
26. Hooghiemstra H., Wijninga V.M., Cleef A.M. The paleobotanical record of Colombia: implications for biogeography and biodiversity. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 2006, 93:297-324.
27. Hynek S.A., Passey B.H., Prado J.L., Brown F.H., Cerling T.E., Quade J. Small mammal carbon isotope ecology across the Miocene-Pliocene boundary, northwestern Argentina. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2012, 321-322:177-188.
28. Iacumin P., Bocherens H., Mariotti A., Longinelli A. Oxygen isotope analyses of coexisting carbonate and phosphate in biogenic apatite: a way to monitor diagenetic alteration of bone phosphate?. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 1996, 142:1-6.
29. Koch P.L. Isotopic reconstruction of past continental environments. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 1998, 26:573-613.
30. Koch P.L., Tuross N., Fogel M.L. The effects of sample treatment and diagenesis on the isotopic integrity of carbonate in biogenic hydroxylapatite. J. Archaeol. Sci. 1997, 24:417-429.
31. 4 plant abundance in the south-central United States. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 2004, 207:331-357.
32. 18O: accounting for diet and physiological adaptation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1996, 60:4811-4829.
33. Kohn M.J., McKay M.P., Knight J.L. Dining in the Pleistocene-who's on the menu?. Geology 2005, 33:649-652.
34. Leier A., Johnston S., McQuarrie N. Using oxygen isotope values of modern water and ancient carbonate to reconstruct the paleoelevation history of the Inter-Andean Valley, Ecuador. GSA Bull. 2007, 39:239.
35. 2 during the last ice age from an Antarctic ice core. Nature 1992, 357:488-490.
36. MacFadden B.J. Middle Pleistocene climate change recorded in fossil mammal teeth from Tarija, Bolivia, and upper limit of the Ensenadan Land-Mammal Age. Quat. Res. 2000, 54:121-131.
37. MacFadden B.J. Diet and habitat of toxodont megaherbivores (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from the late Quaternary of South and Central America. Quat. Res. 2005, 64:113-124.
38. MacFadden B.J., Shockey B.J. Ancient feeding ecology and niche differentiation of Pleistocene mammalian herbivores from Tarija, Bolivia: morphological and isotopic evidence. Paleobiology 1997, 23:77-100.
39. MacFadden B.J., Wang Y., Cerling T.E., Anaya F. South American fossil mammals and carbon isotopes: a 25 million-year sequence from the Bolivian Andes. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 1994, 107:257-268.
40. MacFadden B.J., Cerling T.E., Prado J.L. Cenozoic terrestrial ecosystem evolution in Argentina: evidence from carbon isotopes of fossil mammal teeth. Palaios 1996, 11:319-327.
41. 4 grasses interpreted from stable isotopes of New World Pleistocene horse (Equus) teeth. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. 1999, 8:137-149.
42. 4 plant cellulose. Nature 1991, 349:127-131.
43. Moreno Bofarull A., Arias Royo A., Hernández Fernández M., Ortiz-Jaureguizar E., Morales J. Influence of continental history on the ecological specialization and macroevolutionary processes in the mammalian assemblage of South America: differences between small and large mammals. BMC Evol. Biol. 2008, 8:97.
44. 2, and bioapatite in different mammals. J. Archaeol. Sci. 2005, 32(10):1459-1470.
45. Passey B.H., Ayliffe L.K., Kaakinen A., Zhang Z., Eronen J.T., Zhu Y., Zhou L., Cerling T.E., Fortelius M. Strengthened East Asian summer monsoons during a period of high-latitude warmth? Isotopic evidence from Mio-Pliocene fossil mammals and soil carbonates from northern China. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2009, 277:443-452.
46. Pomi L.H. Una nueva asociación de vertebrados fósiles de Edad Ensenadense (Plioceno tardío-Pleistoceno medio) de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ameghiniana 2008, 45.
47. Prado J.L., Alberdi M.T., Azanza B., Sánchez B., Frassinetti D. The Pleistocene Gomphotheridae (Proboscidea) from South America. Quat. Int. 2005, 126-128:21-30.
48. Prado J.L., Sánchez B., Alberdi M.T. Ancient feeding ecology inferred from stable isotopic evidence from fossil horses in South America over the past 3 Ma. BMC Ecol. 2011, 11:15.
49. Quade J., Garzione C., Eiler J. Paleoelevation reconstruction using pedogenic carbonates. Rev. Mineral. Geochem. 2007, 66:53-87.
50. Rowley D.B., Garzione C.N. Stable isotope-based paleoaltimetry. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 2007, 35:463-508.
51. Sánchez B., Prado J.L., Alberdi M.T. Feeding ecology, dispersal, and extinction of South American Pleistocene gomphotheres (Gomphotheriidae, Proboscidea). Paleobiology 2004, 30:146-161.
52. 4 Plant Biology 1999, vol. 10:313-376. Academic, San Diego.
53. Taber A.B., Doncaster C.P., Neris N.N., Colman F.H. Behavior and population dynamics of the Chacoan peccary, Catagonus wagneri. J. Mammal. 1993, 74:443-454.
54. 4 photosynthesis. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 2007, 35:435-461.
55. 2: a comparative evaluation of available geochemical proxies. Paleoceanography 2010, 25:PA3202.
56. Vizcaíno S.F., Bargo M.S. The masticatory apparatus of the armadillo Eutatus (Mammalia, Cingulata) and some allied genera: paleobiology and evolution. Paleobiology 1998, 24:371-383.
57. Vizcaíno S.F., Cassini G.H., Fernicola J.C., Bargo M.S. Evaluating habitats and feeding habits through ecomorphological features in glyptodonts (Mammalia, Xenarthra). Ameghiniana 2011, 48:305-319.
58. Vrba E.S. Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory. J. Mammal. 1992, 73:1-28.
59. Webb S.D. Late Cenozoic mammal dispersals between the Americas. The Great American Biotic Interchange, Topics in Geobiology 1985, vol. 4:357-386. Plenum Press, New York.
60. Webb S.D. The Great American Biotic Interchange: patterns and processes. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 2006, 93:245-257.
61. Webb S.D., Marshall L.G. Historical biogeography of recent South American land mammals. Evolution of Neotropical Mammals 1982, vol. 6:39-54. Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, Univ. Pittsburgh.
62. 18O values of carbonate and phosphate from fossil tooth enamel. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2004, 68:2245-2258.
63. Zurita A., Scillato-Yané G.J., Carlini A.A. Paleozoogeographic, biostratigraphic, and systematic aspects of the genus Sclerocalyptus Ameghino, 1891 (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae) of Argentina. J. South. Am. Earth Sci. 2005, 20:121-129.
64. Zurita A.E., Miño-Boilini A.R., Carlini A.A., Iriondo M., Alcaraz M.A. Paleontología del Chaco Oriental. Una nueva localidad con mamíferos fósiles pleistocenos en el río Bermejo (Formosa, Argentina). Rev. Mex. Cienc. Geol. 2009, 26:277-288.