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Variability in feeding habitats of red deer sensu lato in Eurasia in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene by Maciej Sykut; Sławomira Pawełczyk; Natalia Piotrowska; Krzysztof Stefaniak; Bogdan Ridush; Daniel Makowiecki; Pavel Kosintsev; Barbara Wilkens; Tomasz Borowik; Ralph Fyfe; Jessie Woodbridge; Magdalena Niedziałkowska is a Earth and Planetary Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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Red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the species that is rather wide spread and survived across Europe over the Holocene. The analyses of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in bone collagen of ungulate remains have been applied in paleoecological studies as environmental and dietary indicators. In this study we present the carbon and nitrogen stable isotope compositions of previously radiocarbon-dated red deer bone samples (N = 68) found in Central, Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia and aligned to one of two species: European red deer (Cervus elaphus) and wapiti (Cervus canadensis). We showed that the values of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios of European red deer and wapiti overlapped. Among all analysed independent factors (determined for the locality and time period relevant for each of the analysed samples), the variability of δ 13C values in European red deer dated to the Holocene is best explained by forest cover and mean July temperature, and variability of δ 15N values by the mean July temperature, annual precipitation and altitude. Additionally, combining the results of the present study with isotopic data on European red deer collected from published sources,
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- Author
- Maciej Sykut; Sławomira Pawełczyk; Natalia Piotrowska; Krzysztof Stefaniak; Bogdan Ridush; Daniel Makowiecki; Pavel Kosintsev; Barbara Wilkens; Tomasz Borowik; Ralph Fyfe; Jessie Woodbridge; Magdalena Niedziałkowska
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)