DIETS OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN BOVIDAE: STABLE ISOTOPE EVIDENCE

By M. Sponheimer, J. Lee-Thorp, D. DeRuiter, Jeannette M. Smith, Nikolaas J. van der Merwe, K. Reed, C. C. Grant, L. Ayliffe, T. Robinson, C. Heidelberger and 1 more. 2003

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Subfields: Anthropology, Ecology, Paleontology

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In Anthropology

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2. P. Ungar
3. J. Kingston
4. T. Harrison
5. J. Sealy
6. Thomas M. Kaiser
7. M. Clauss
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In Ecology

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2. J. Lee-Thorp
3. D. Codron
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5. P. Ungar
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8. J. Kingston

In Paleontology

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4. P. Ungar
5. J. Lee-Thorp
6. J. Sealy
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Citations in the corpus

• Tooth wear in captive wild ruminant species differs from that of free-ranging conspecifics (2009, methodology): “The only exception was the greater 21 kudu, a browser (Gagnon and Chew, 2000; Sponheimer et al., 2003) whose natural 22 mesowear pattern already indicates a comparatively high proportion of abrasive 23 dietary elements (Fortelius and Solounias, 2000).”
• Isotopic dietary reconstructions of Pliocene herbivores at Laetoli: Implications for early hominin paleoecology (2007, background): “Data on modern mammals were gleaned from a number of sources, with a focus on East and South African assemblages (e.g., Lee-Thorp, 1989; Bocherens et al., 1996; Cerling et al., 1999; Cerling and Harris, 1999; Harris and Cerling, 2002; Cerling et al., 2003a,c; Sponheimer et al., 2003).”
• The Morphophysiological Adaptations of Browsing and Grazing Mammals (2008, background): “…*/- GR > BR (Spencer 1995) Tooth blade sharpness C1-C2, C4 14 n y d ns/- (Popowics and Fortelius 1997) Length of premolar row C3 27 n n c */- GR < BR (Sponheimer et al. 2003) Length of premolar tooth row C3 33 y y d */- GR < BR (Spencer 1995) Masseter weight C3 22 y y d ns/- */- (Axmacher and…”
• Diets of savanna ungulates from stable carbon isotope composition of faeces (2007, methodology): “Cerling et al. (2003) reported diets of 100% grass in buffalo and wildebeest, while the results for Kruger Park and indeed all of southern Africa (Sponheimer et al., 2003b) are consistent with 410% C3 contributions to diet.”
• Microwear evidence for Plio–Pleistocene bovid diets from Makapansgat Limeworks Cave, South Africa (2006, background): “scriptus specimens support a C3 based diet (Sponheimer et al., 2003; Cerling et al., 2003).”
• Isotopic evidence of early hominin diets (2013, background): “Folivores, however, can have predominantly C3, C4, or C3/C4 mixed diets (21, 22).”
• DIETS OF EAST AFRICAN BOVIDAE BASED ON STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS (2003, background): “It also agrees very well with the work of Sponheimer et al. (2003) on diets of South African bovids using stable isotope analyses of bioapatite and hair.”
• Stable isotope characterization of mammalian predator–prey relationships in a South African savanna (2007, methodology): “…δ13C and δ15N were adjusted using discrimination factors for hair, faeces and muscle reported from controlledfeeding studies (Sutoh et al. 1987; Cerling and Harris 1999; Sponheimer et al. 2003a, 2006; Codron et al. 2005) to estimate hair–muscle and faeces–muscle differences (summarized in Table 2).”
• Dental microwear texture analysis of extant African Bovidae (2012, methodology): “…recovered large mammals (e.g., Vrba 1980, 1995 , Kappelman 1984 , Shipman and Harris 1988 , Harris 1991 , Plummer and Bishop 1994 , Kappelman et al. 1997 , Reed 1997, 2008 , Spencer 1997 , Sponheimer et al. 1999, 2000 , Schoeninger et al. 2003 , Schubert et al. 2006 , Kingston and Harrison 2007 ).”