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Isotopic composition of sheep wool records seasonality of climate and diet by Zazzo, A., Cerling, T. E., Ehleringer, J. R., Moloney, A. P., Monahan, F. J., Schmidt, O.

“…Rationale Hair keratin is a very important material in ecological and archaeological studies because it grows continuously, can be obtained non‐invasively,…”
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Stable isotope analysis of modern human hair collected from Asia (China, India, Mongolia, and Pakistan) by Thompson, A.H., Chesson, L.A., Podlesak, D.W., Bowen, G.J., Cerling, T.E., Ehleringer, J.R.

“…We report isotopic data (δ2H, δ18O n = 196; δ13C, δ15N n = 142; δ34S n = 85) from human hair and drinking water (δ2H, δ18O n = 67) collected across China,…”
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Turnover of Carbon Isotopes in Tail Hair and Breath CO₂ of Horses Fed an Isotopically Varied Diet by Ayliffe, L. K., Cerling, T. E., Robinson, T., West, A. G., Sponheimer, M., Passey, B. H., Hammer, J., Roeder, B., Dearing, M. D., Ehleringer, J. R.

“…Temporal stable isotope records derived from animal tissues are increasingly studied to determine dietary and climatic histories. Despite this, the turnover…”
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Stable isotope ecology of the common hippopotamus by Cerling, T.E, Harris, J.M, Hart, J.A, Kaleme, P, Klingel, H, Leakey, M.G, Levin, N.E, Lewison, R.L, Passey, B.H

“…The diet of African hippopotamids can be documented through stable carbon isotope ratios (¹³C/¹²C) analyses of enamel and other tissues. The common…”
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Seasonal Bias in Soil Carbonate Formation and Its Implications for Interpreting High‐Resolution Paleoarchives: Evidence From Southern Utah by Huth, T. E., Cerling, T. E., Marchetti, D. W., Bowling, D. R., Ellwein, A. L., Passey, B. H.

“…Pedogenic carbonate is commonly used as a paleoarchive, but its interpretation is limited by our understanding of its formation conditions. We investigated…”
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Turnover of stable carbon isotopes in the muscle, liver, and breath CO2 of alpacas (Lama pacos) by Sponheimer, M., Robinson, T. F., Cerling, T. E., Tegland, L., Roeder, B. L., Ayliffe, L., Dearing, M. D., Ehleringer, J. R.

“…Stable carbon isotope analysis of animal liver and muscle has become a widespread tool for investigating dietary ecology. Nonetheless, stable carbon isotope…”
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Establishing chronologies from isotopic profiles in serially collected animal tissues: An example using tail hairs from African elephants by Wittemyer, George, Cerling, Thure E., Douglas-Hamilton, Iain

“…While the use of stable isotopes in wildlife ecological research is growing rapidly, development of methods to establish time-specific isotope data from…”
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Stable isotope ecology of fossil hippopotamids from the Lake Turkana Basin of East Africa by Harris, J.M, Cerling, T.E, Leakey, M.G, Passey, B.H

“…The diet of African hippopotamids can be documented through δ¹³C analyses of enamel and other tissues. Analysis of a 10-million-year sequence of hippopotamids…”
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Dietary adaptations of extant and Neogene African suids by Harris, J. M., Cerling, T. E.

“…Plio-Pleistocene suid assemblages of sub-Saharan Africa seem to have been derived from the immigration of Asian tetraconodontines during the late Miocene and…”
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Carbon dioxide starvation, the development of C4 ecosystems, and mammalian evolution by Cerling, T. E., Ehleringer, J. R., Harris, J. M.

“…biomass is recorded in the diets of mammals from Asia, Africa, North America, and South America during the interval from about 8 to 5 Ma. This was accompanied…”
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Geomorphology and In-Situ Cosmogenic Isotopes by Cerling, T. E, Craig, H

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Short-Term Diet Changes Revealed Using Stable Carbon Isotopes in Horse Tail-Hair by West, A. G., Ayliffe, L. K., Cerling, T. E., Robinson, T. F., Karren, B., Dearing, M. D., Ehleringer, J. R.

“…1. We demonstrate the potential of extracting high-resolution dietary information from stable carbon isotopes (δ13C) in horse tail-hair, in response to…”
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Atmospheric CO2 and the ratio of intercellular to ambient CO2 concentrations in plants by Ehleringer, J. R., Cerling, T. E.

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Carbon isotopes in soils and palaeosols as ecology and palaeoecology indicators by Cerling, T. E, Quade, J, Wang, Y, Bowman, J. R

“…There are few quantitative techniques in use today for palaeoecological reconstruction in terrestrial depositional systems. One approach to such…”
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Dietary and environmental reconstruction with stable isotope analyses of herbivore tooth enamel from the Miocene locality of Fort Ternan, Kenya by Cerling, Thure E., Harris, John M., Ambrose, Stanley H., Leakey, Meave G., Solounias, Nikos

“…Tooth enamel of nine Middle Miocene mammalian herbivores from Fort Ternan, Kenya, was analyzed for δ13C and δ18O. The δ18O values of the tooth enamel compared…”
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Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary by Cerling, Thure E, Harris, John M, MacFadden, Bruce J, Leakey, Meave G, Quade, Jay, Eisenmann, Vera, Ehleringer, James R

“…Between 8 and 6 million years ago, there was a global increase in the biomass of plants using C4 photosynthesis as indicated by changes in the carbon isotope…”
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Ancient Diets, Ecology, and Extinction of 5-Million-Year-Old Horses from Florida by MacFadden, Bruce J., Solounias, Nikos, Cerling, Thure E.

“…Six sympatric species of 5-million-year-old (late Hemphillian) horses from Florida existed during a time of major global change and extinction in terrestrial…”
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Expansion of C4 ecosystems as an indicator of global ecological change in the late Miocene by Cerling, Thure E, Wang, Yang, Quade, Jay

“…Recent studies of palaeovegetation from palaeosols and palaeodiet from fossil tooth enamel indicate a rapid expansion of C4 biomass in the the Old World and…”
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Carbon Isotopes in Soils and Paleosols as Ecology and Paleoecology Indicators by Cerling, T E, Quade, J, Wang, Y, Bowman, J R

“…There are few quantitative techniques for paleontological reconstruction in terrestrial depositional systems. A study proposes a model for understanding the…”
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Calcium isotopes in enamel of modern and Plio-Pleistocene East African mammals by Martin, J.E., Tacail, T., Cerling, T.E., Balter, V.

“…Calcium isotope analyses show a depletion of heavy calcium isotopes in vertebrates, compared to food sources along each trophic step. Recent studies show…”
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