Dietary flexibility and niche partitioning of large herbivores through the Pleistocene of Britain

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 146, Issue , 2016, Pages 116-133

  Rivals, Florent ^a,b,c   Lister, Adrian M ^d  

^a INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mesowear; Microwear; Proboscideans; Quaternary; Tooth wear; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY;

MESOWEAR; MICRO-WEAR; PROBOSCIDEANS; QUATERNARY; UNGULATES;

WEAR OF MATERIALS;

COEXISTENCE; DEER; ELEPHANT; HERBIVORE; NICHE PARTITIONING; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY; TOOTH; TURNOVER; UNGULATE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ARTIODACTYLA; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVUS ELAPHUS; MEGALOCEROS GIGANTEUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 84975475623     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.06.007     Document Type: Article

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