European bison as a refugee species? Evidence from isotopic data on Early Holocene bison and other large herbivores in northern Europe

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Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Bocherens, Hervé ^a,b   Hofman Kamińska, Emilia ^c   Drucker, Dorothée G ^a   Schmölcke, Ulrich ^d   Kowalczyk, Rafał ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoecology   (Germany)

^c MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^d Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; COLLAGEN; NITROGEN 15; ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOS PRIMIGENIUS; BROWSER (ORGANISM); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EARLY HOLOCENE; EUROPE; EUROPEAN BISON; FITNESS; FOREST; GLACIAL PERIOD; GRAZER; HABITAT USE; HERBIVORE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); MOOSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMS BY HABITAT; POPULATION DENSITY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; REFUGEE SPECIES; REINDEER; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STEPPE; ANIMAL; BISON; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; HERBIVORY;

ALCES ALCES; BISON; BISON BONASUS; BISON PRISCUS; BOS PRIMIGENIUS; MAMMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; UNGULATA;

ANIMALS; BISON; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HERBIVORY; ISOTOPES;

EID: 84923169873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115090     Document Type: Article

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