Ecological change in the lower Omo Valley around 2.8 Ma

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bibi, Faysal ^a   Souron, Antoine ^b   Bocherens, Hervé ^c   Uno, Kevin ^d   Boisserie, Jean Renaud ^b,e  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^e Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Service et de Recherche 3137   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Africa; Diet; Palaeoecology; Pliocene; Stable isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIET; ENAMEL; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PLIOCENE; RUMINANT; SAMPLING; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ETHIOPIA; OMO VALLEY; TURKANA BASIN;

BOVIDAE; HIPPOPOTAMIDAE; KOLPOCHOERUS LIMNETES; MAMMALIA; SUIDAE; TRAGELAPHUS;

CARBON; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; ENAMEL; ENVIRONMENT; ETHIOPIA; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARBON ISOTOPES; DENTAL ENAMEL; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ETHIOPIA; FOSSILS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEONTOLOGY; SWINE;

EID: 84872034657     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0890     Document Type: Article

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