Technical note: Calcium and carbon stable isotope ratios as paleodietary indicators

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 633-643

  Melin, Amanda D ^a   Crowley, Brooke E ^b   Brown, Shaun T ^c,d   Wheatley, Patrick V ^c   Moritz, Gillian L ^e   Yit Yu, Fred Tuh ^f   Bernard, Henry ^g   Depaolo, Donald J ^c,d   Jacobson, Andrew D ^h   Dominy, Nathaniel J ^a,e  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^f Research and Education Division (Zoology and Entomology)   (Malaysia)

^g UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^h NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cantius trigonodus; diet reconstruction; Scandentia; stable isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CARBON; CARBON 13; COLLAGEN; NITROGEN 15; STABLE ISOTOPE; APATITE;

ARTICLE; BORNEO; CARNIVORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; FOSSIL; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIET; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APATITES; BORNEO; CALCIUM; CARBON ISOTOPES; COLLAGEN; COSTA RICA; DIET; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIMATES;

EID: 84904036241     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22530     Document Type: Article

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