Should we expect large game specialization in the late Pleistocene? An optimal foraging perspective on early Paleoindian prey choice
By David A. Byers, A. Ugan. 2005
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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Social Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Late Quaternary Extinctions: State of the Debate (2006, background): “Indeed, a recent study of the potential for megafaunal specialization by North American Paleoindians in a quantitative, optimal foraging framework suggested that foragers should have taken a wide array of taxa including not only proboscideans, but also ungulates and smaller game (Byers & Ugan 2005).”
- Evolutionary Foraging Models in Zooarchaeological Analysis: Recent Applications and Future Challenges (2007, methodology): “Extremely large-bodied prey such as whales or some pinnipeds often have excessive handling costs that depress their rank relative to overall body size (e.g., Byers and Ugan 2005; Jones 2004; Smith 1991).”
- Pleistocene Overkill and North American Mammalian Extinctions (2015, background): “…but the intensity of their predation and the consequences of their doing so remain unresolved, as does the question of whether they could have been responsible for the loss of those extinct taxa (Byers & Ugan 2005, Cannon & Meltzer 2004, Grayson & Meltzer 2015, Surovell and Waguespack 2009).”
- When bigger is not better: The economics of hunting megafauna and its implications for Plio-Pleistocene hunter-gatherers (2016, methodology): “Using the allometric relationship between body size and prey density to approximate the encounter rate with mammoths and other prey, Byers and Ugan (2005) conclude that proboscideans would never be encountered frequently enough to exclude other prey species from the diet and a big game…”