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List of works by Matt Sponheimer

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Diet of Paranthropus boisei in the early Pleistocene of East Africa

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Turnover of carbon isotopes in tail hair and breath CO2 of horses fed an isotopically varied diet.

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The effect of dietary protein quality on nitrogen isotope discrimination in mammals and birds

scientific article published on 11 May 2005

Nitrogen isotopes in mammalian herbivores: hair δ15N values from a controlled feeding study

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Isotopic evidence for the diet of an early hominid, Australopithecus africanus

scientific article published in January 1999

Carbon isotope fractionation between diet, breath CO2, and bioapatite in different mammals

article by Benjamin H. Passey et al published October 2005 in Journal of Archaeological Science

The diets of early hominins

scientific article published on October 2011

Isotopic evidence for dietary variability in the early hominin Paranthropus robustus

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Do "savanna" chimpanzees consume C4 resources?

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An experimental study of carbon-isotope fractionation between diet, hair, and feces of mammalian herbivores

scholarly article by Matt Sponheimer et al published May 2003 in Canadian Journal of Zoology

Sulphur isotopes in palaeodietary studies: a review and results from a controlled feeding experiment

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Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

scientific article (publication date: 2 June 2011)

Hominins, sedges, and termites: new carbon isotope data from the Sterkfontein valley and Kruger National Park.

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Inter- and intrahabitat dietary variability of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in South African savannas based on fecal delta13C, delta15N, and %N.

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Taxonomic, anatomical, and spatio-temporal variations in the stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions of plants from an African savanna

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Three case studies used to reassess the reliability of fossil bone and enamel isotope signals for paleodietary studies

scholarly article by Julia Lee-Thorp published in September 2003

Stable isotopes in fossil hominin tooth enamel suggest a fundamental dietary shift in the Pliocene

scientific article (publication date: 27 October 2010)

Dental microwear and stable isotopes inform the paleoecology of extinct hominins

scientific article published on June 2012

Turnover of stable carbon isotopes in the muscle, liver, and breath CO2 of alpacas (Lama pacos).

scientific article published in January 2006

Oxygen Isotopes in Enamel Carbonate and their Ecological Significance

The diet of Australopithecus sediba

scientific article published in July 2012

An experimental study of nitrogen flux in llamas: is 14N preferentially excreted?

Craniofacial biomechanics and functional and dietary inferences in hominin paleontology

scientific article published on 15 March 2010

Intraspecific variation in hair δ13C and δ15N values of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) with known individual histories, behavior, and feeding ecology

scientific article published on July 2007

Isotopic evidence for an early shift to C₄ resources by Pliocene hominins in Chad

scientific article (publication date: 11 December 2012)

Using carbon isotopes to track dietary change in modern, historical, and ancient primates

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When animals are not quite what they eat: diet digestibility influences 13C-incorporation rates and apparent discrimination in a mixed-feeding herbivore

article by Daryl Codron et al published June 2011 in Canadian Journal of Zoology

Diet of Australopithecus afarensis from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Ethiopia

scientific article (publication date: 25 June 2013)

Significance of diet type and diet quality for ecological diversity of African ungulates.

scientific article published on May 2007

What Insights Can Baboon Feeding Ecology Provide for Early Hominin Niche Differentiation?

The oxygen isotope composition of mammalian enamel carbonate from Morea Estate, South Africa

scientific article published on January 2001

Contributions of biogeochemistry to understanding hominin dietary ecology

scientific article published in January 2006

Alteration of Enamel Carbonate Environments during Fossilization

Stable isotope series from elephant ivory reveal lifetime histories of a true dietary generalist

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2012)

Sr/Ca and early hominin diets revisited: new data from modern and fossil tooth enamel.

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Combining isotopic and ecomorphological data to refine bovid paleodietary reconstruction: a case study from the Makapansgat Limeworks hominin locality.

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Tracking changing environments using stable carbon isotopes in fossil tooth enamel: an example from the South African hominin sites

scientific article published on 24 October 2007

Stable isotope analysis in primatology: a critical review

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Nutritional content of savanna plant foods: implications for browser/grazer models of ungulate diversification

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Intra-tooth stable isotope analysis of dentine: a step toward addressing selective mortality in the reconstruction of life history in the archaeological record

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Strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) of tooth enamel: a comparison of solution and laser ablation multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry methods

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The confounding effects of source isotopic heterogeneity on consumer-diet and tissue-tissue stable isotope relationships

scientific article published on 17 February 2012

Landscape-scale feeding patterns of African elephant inferred from carbon isotope analysis of feces

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Impacts of plant-based foods in ancestral hominin diets on the metabolism and function of gut microbiota in vitro

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DIETS OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN BOVIDAE: STABLE ISOTOPE EVIDENCE

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ELEPHANT (LOXODONTA AFRICANA) DIETS IN KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH AFRICA: SPATIAL AND LANDSCAPE DIFFERENCES

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Differential resource utilization by extant great apes and australopithecines: towards solving the C4 conundrum.

scientific article published on September 2003

Stable carbon isotope reconstruction of ungulate diet changes through the seasonal cycle

article by Daryl Codron et al published October 2007 in South African Journal of Wildlife Research

Microwear evidence for Plio–Pleistocene bovid diets from Makapansgat Limeworks Cave, South Africa

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Stable isotope characterization of mammalian predator–prey relationships in a South African savanna

scholarly article by Daryl Codron et al published 28 November 2006 in European Journal of Wildlife Research