Year
2023
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences
Abstract
Food webs play important roles in hypotheses relating to Pleistocene vertebrate evolution, such as megafauna evolution, insular dwarfism and gigantism, and Late Pleistocene extinctions. However, food webs reconstructions of Australasian Pleistocene fauna have been hindered by the lack of suitable trophic level proxies. This thesis aimed to improve our understanding of food webs of Pleistocene Australian megafauna and island fauna from Flores (Indonesia) through calcium (Ca) and strontium (Sr) isotope geochemistry.
Recommended Citation
Koutamanis, Dafne S., Reconstructing dietary behaviour and food webs of Pleistocene Australasian terrestrial vertebrates through calcium and strontium isotope geochemistry, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, 2023. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/1805
FoR codes (2008)
0499 OTHER EARTH SCIENCES, 2199 OTHER HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
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