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Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas by Fraser, Danielle, Villaseñor, Amelia, Tóth, Anikó B., Balk, Meghan A., Eronen, Jussi T., Andrew Barr, W., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Davis, Matt, Du, Andrew, Tyler Faith, J., Graves, Gary R., Gotelli, Nicholas J., Jukar, Advait M., Looy, Cindy V., McGill, Brian J., Miller, Joshua H., Pineda-Munoz, Silvia, Potts, Richard, Shupinski, Alex B., Soul, Laura C., Kathleen Lyons, S.

“…Biotic homogenization—increasing similarity of species composition among ecological communities—has been linked to anthropogenic processes operating over the…”
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Long-Term Stasis in Ecological Assemblages: Evidence from the Fossil Record by DiMichele, W. A., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Olszewski, T. D., Labandeira, C. C., Pandolfi, J. M., Wing, S. L., Bobe, R.

“…Studies of plant and animal assemblages from both the terrestrial and the marine fossil records reveal persistence for extensive periods of geological time,…”
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Paleolandscape variation and Early Pleistocene hominid activities: Members 1 and 7, Olorgesailie Formation, Kenya by Potts, Richard, Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Ditchfield, Peter

“…Paleolandscape research tests for variation in the spatial distribution of hominid artefacts and establishes the association of hominid activities with…”
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Late Pliocene Faunal Turnover in the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia by Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Todd, Nancy E., Potts, Richard, McBrinn, Geraldine E.

“…Analysis of a large sample of well-dated fossil mammals from localities in the Turkana Basin of Kenya and Ethiopia revealed sampling biases that affect…”
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The upper limb of Paranthropus boisei from Ileret, Kenya by Richmond, B.G., Green, D.J., Lague, M.R., Chirchir, H., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Bobe, R., Bamford, M.K., Griffin, N.L., Gunz, P., Mbua, E., Merritt, S.R., Pobiner, B., Kiura, P., Kibunjia, M., Harris, J.W.K., Braun, D.R.

“…Paranthropus boisei was first described in 1959 based on fossils from the Olduvai Gorge and now includes many fossils from Ethiopia to Malawi. Knowledge about…”
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Landscape scale heterogeneity in the East Turkana ecosystem during the Okote Member (1.56–1.38 Ma) by Patterson, D.B., Braun, D.R., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Lehmann, S.B., Merritt, S.R., Reeves, J.S., Wood, B.A., Bobe, R.

“…Placing the biological adaptations of Pleistocene hominins within a well-resolved ecological framework has been a longstanding goal of paleoanthropology. This…”
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Early Pleistocene habitat in Member 1 Olorgesailie based on paleosol stable isotopes by Sikes, Nancy E, Potts, Richard, Behrensmeyer, A.K

“…Stable carbon and oxygen isotope values from soil carbonates were used to determine the vegetation context of archaeological sites and local climatic…”
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The expansion of grassland ecosystems in Africa in relation to mammalian evolution and the origin of the genus Homo by Bobe, René, Behrensmeyer, Anna K.

“…The relationship between climatic change and human evolution can be framed in terms of three major hypotheses. A modern version of the long-held savanna…”
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Isotopic Tracking of Change in Diet and Habitat Use in African Elephants by Koch, Paul L., Heisinger, Jennifer, Moss, Cynthia, Carlson, Richard W., Fogel, Marilyn L., Behrensmeyer, Anna K.

“…The carbon, nitrogen, and strontium isotope compositions of elephants in Amboseli Park, Kenya, were measured to examine changes in diet and habitat use since…”
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The Pleistocene locality of Kanjera, Western Kenya: stratigraphy, chronology and paleoenvironments by Behrensmeyer, A.K., Potts, R., Plummer, T., Tauxe, L., Opdyke, N., Jorstad, T.

“…Kanjera is well known as the source of controversial hominid fossils collected by L. S. B. Leakey in the 1930s. Since 1935, the context of fossils and…”
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Architecture of Miocene Overbank Deposits in Northern Pakistan by Brian J. Willis (), A.K. Behrensme

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Taphonomy and paleobiology by Behrensmeyer, Anna K, Kidwell, Susan M, Gastaldo, Robert A

“…Taphonomy plays diverse roles in paleobiology. These include assessing sample quality relevant to ecologic, biogeographic, and evolutionary questions,…”
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Understanding Paleoclimate and Human Evolution Through the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project by Cohen, A., Arrowsmith, R., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Campisano, C., Feibel, C., Fisseha, S., Johnson, R., Kubsa Bedaso, Z., Lockwoodt, C., Mbua, R., Olago, D., Potts, R., Reed, K., Renaut, R., Tiercelin, J.-J., Umer, M.

“…No abstract available. doi: 10.2204/iodp.sd.8.10.2009…”
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Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record? by Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Fürsich, Franz T., Gastaldo, Robert A., Kidwell, Susan M., Kosnik, Matthew A., Kowalewski, Michal, Plotnick, Roy E., Rogers, Raymond R., Alroy, John

“…This paper tests whether the most common fossil brachiopod, gastropod, and bivalve genera also have intrinsically more durable shells. Commonness was…”
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Hominid taphonomy: transport of human skeletal parts in an artificial fluviatile environment by Boaz, N T, Behrensmeyer, A K

“…Flume experiments demonstrate that human skeletal parts sort into lag and transportable groups in a current flow of 31 cm/sec. Orientations, rates and types of…”
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New hominoid primates from the Siwaliks of Pakistan and their bearing on hominoid evolution by Pilbeam, David, Meyer, Grant E, Badgley, Catherine, Rose, M. D, Pickford, M. H. L, Behrensmeyer, A. K, Shah, S. M. Ibrahim

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The Geological Context of Human Evolution by Behrensmeyer, A K

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Environmental information in a recent bone assemblage: roles of taphonomic processes and ecological change by Cutler, Alan H, Behrensmeyer, Anna K, Chapman, Ralph E

“…Taphonomic processes have the potential to obscure or enhance original associations between paleoenvironments and organisms through selective destruction,…”
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Ecosystem evolution and hominin paleobiology at East Turkana, northern Kenya between 2.0 and 1.4 Ma by Patterson, D.B., Braun, D.R., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Merritt, S., Zliobaite, I., Reeves, J.S., Wood, B.A., Fortelius, M., Bobe, R.

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New Hominid Remains and Early Artefacts from Northern Kenya: Preliminary Geological Interpretation of a New Hominid Site in the Lake Rudolf Basin by BEHRENSMEYER, A. K

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