Life histories and niche dynamics in late Quaternary proboscideans from Midwestern North America: evidence from stable isotope analyses

@article{Widga2020LifeHA,
  title={Life histories and niche dynamics in late Quaternary proboscideans from Midwestern North America: evidence from stable isotope analyses},
  author={Chris Widga and Gregory W L Hodgins and Kayla Kolis and Stacey Lengyel and Jeffrey John Saunders and J. Douglas Walker and Alan D. Wanamaker},
  journal={bioRxiv},
  year={2020}
}
Stable isotopes of mammoths and mastodons have the potential to illuminate ecological changes in late Pleistocene landscapes and megafaunal populations as these species approached extinction. The ecological factors at play in this extinction remain unresolved, but isotopes of bone collagen (δ13C, δ15N) and tooth enamel (δ13C, δ18O, 87Sr/86Sr) from the Midwest, USA are leveraged to examine ecological and behavioral changes that occurred during the last interglacial-glacial cycle. Both species… 
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