Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Variations in a Modern Rodent Community - Implications for Palaeoenvironmental Reconstructions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Gehler, Alexander ^a   Tütken, Thomas ^b   Pack, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CARBON; CARBONIC ACID; OXYGEN; PHOSPHATE; SURFACE WATER;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; ARTICLE; ARVICOLA TERRESTRIS; BONE; CALIBRATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL; FRACTIONATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LIFESPAN; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MOUSE; MYODES GLAREOLUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAT; RODENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES HABITAT; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; APATITES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; BONE AND BONES; CARBON ISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; FOSSILS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENTIA; SEASONS; STRIGIFORMES; TOOTH;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 84869756843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049531     Document Type: Article

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