List of works - Kay Behrensmeyer

A century of change in Kenya's mammal communities: increased richness and decreased uniqueness in six protected areas

scientific article

A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary

scientific article published in 2014

Animal bioturbation preserved in Pleistocene magadiite at Lake Magadi, Kenya Rift Valley, and its implications for the depositional environment of bedded magadiite

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene

Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record?

scientific article published on 14 July 2006

Atmosphere. Climate change and human evolution

scientific article

Bone assemblages track animal community structure over 40 years in an African savanna ecosystem

scientific article

Changes in shell durability of common marine taxa through the Phanerozoic: evidence for biological rather than taphonomic drivers

article

Changing patterns of carnivore modification in a landscape bone assemblage, Amboseli Park, Kenya

scientific article published in December 2006

Chronology of the Acheulean to Middle Stone Age transition in eastern Africa

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Climate change and faunal turnover: testing the mechanics of the turnover-pulse hypothesis with South African fossil data

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Comparative isotopic evidence from East Turkana supports a dietary shift within the genus Homo

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

Early hominin foot morphology based on 1.5-million-year-old footprints from Ileret, Kenya

scientific article (publication date: 27 February 2009)

Ecological changes in Miocene mammalian record show impact of prolonged climatic forcing

scientific article (publication date: 26 August 2008)

Ecological fidelity of functional traits based on species presence-absence in a modern mammalian bone assemblage (Amboseli, Kenya)

scientific article published on 11 July 2014

Environmental dynamics during the onset of the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Erratum: Corrigendum: Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

scientific article published in Nature

Faunal and environmental change in the late Miocene Siwaliks of northern Pakistan

article

Faunal change, environmental variability and late Pliocene hominin evolution

scientific article

Finale and future

Floodplains and paleosols of Pakistan Neogene and Wyoming Paleogene deposits: a comparative study

scientific article published in 1995

Floral and environmental gradients on a Late Cretaceous landscape

scientific article published in 2012

Footprints of a Pleistocene hominid in northern Kenya

scientific article published in Nature

Four million years of African herbivory

scientific article

FxJj50: An early Pleistocene site in northern Kenya

article

Geology and geochronology of the middle Miocene Kipsaramon site complex, Muruyur Beds, Tugen Hills, Kenya

scientific article

Grassland fire ecology has roots in the late Miocene

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Herbivore teeth predict climatic limits in Kenyan ecosystems

scientific article

Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

scientific article

Hominin track assemblages from Okote Member deposits near Ileret, Kenya, and their implications for understanding fossil hominin paleobiology at 1.5 Ma

scientific article

Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Introduction: Hominin paleobiology in the early Pleistocene Okote Member, Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Lateral trends in carbon isotope ratios reveal a Miocene vegetation gradient in the Siwaliks of Pakistan

scholarly article

Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age.

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Lyons et al. reply

scientific article

Lyons et al. reply

scientific article published in Nature

Middle Pliocene hominin distribution patterns in Eastern Africa

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

Paleosol carbonates from the Omo Group: Isotopic records of local and regional environmental change in East Africa

article

Patterns of abundance and diversity in late Cenozoic bovids from the Turkana and Hadar Basins, Kenya and Ethiopia

article

Pleistocene animal communities of a 1.5 million-year-old lake margin grassland and their relationship to Homo erectus paleoecology

article

Pleistocene footprints show intensive use of lake margin habitats by Homo erectus groups

scientific article

Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Small mid-Pleistocene hominin associated with East African Acheulean technology

scientific article published in July 2004

Spatial, temporal and taxonomic scaling of richness in an eastern African large mammal community

scientific article published on 30 October 2018

Strontium increases and crystallinity changes in taphonomic and archaeological bone

scientific article published in November 1989

Taphonomic and ecologic information from bone weathering

scientific article published in 1978

Taphonomy and paleobiology

article

The Oltulelei Formation of the southern Kenyan Rift Valley: A chronicle of rapid landscape transformation over the last 500 k.y

scholarly article

Time resolution in fluvial vertebrate assemblages ⬇️

scholarly article from 'Paleobiology' published in 1982

Trampling as a cause of bone surface damage and pseudo-cutmarks

scientific article published in Nature

Vertebrate preservation in fluvial channels

scientific article published in February 1988

List of works by Kay Behrensmeyer

A century of change in Kenya's mammal communities: increased richness and decreased uniqueness in six protected areas

A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary

Animal bioturbation preserved in Pleistocene magadiite at Lake Magadi, Kenya Rift Valley, and its implications for the depositional environment of bedded magadiite

Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene

Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record?

Atmosphere. Climate change and human evolution

Bone assemblages track animal community structure over 40 years in an African savanna ecosystem

Changes in shell durability of common marine taxa through the Phanerozoic: evidence for biological rather than taphonomic drivers

Changing patterns of carnivore modification in a landscape bone assemblage, Amboseli Park, Kenya

Chronology of the Acheulean to Middle Stone Age transition in eastern Africa

Climate change and faunal turnover: testing the mechanics of the turnover-pulse hypothesis with South African fossil data

Comparative isotopic evidence from East Turkana supports a dietary shift within the genus Homo

Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale

Early hominin foot morphology based on 1.5-million-year-old footprints from Ileret, Kenya

Ecological changes in Miocene mammalian record show impact of prolonged climatic forcing

Ecological fidelity of functional traits based on species presence-absence in a modern mammalian bone assemblage (Amboseli, Kenya)

Environmental dynamics during the onset of the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa

Erratum: Corrigendum: Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

Faunal and environmental change in the late Miocene Siwaliks of northern Pakistan

Faunal change, environmental variability and late Pliocene hominin evolution

Finale and future

Floodplains and paleosols of Pakistan Neogene and Wyoming Paleogene deposits: a comparative study

Floral and environmental gradients on a Late Cretaceous landscape

Footprints of a Pleistocene hominid in northern Kenya

Four million years of African herbivory

FxJj50: An early Pleistocene site in northern Kenya

Geology and geochronology of the middle Miocene Kipsaramon site complex, Muruyur Beds, Tugen Hills, Kenya

Grassland fire ecology has roots in the late Miocene

Herbivore teeth predict climatic limits in Kenyan ecosystems

Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

Hominin track assemblages from Okote Member deposits near Ileret, Kenya, and their implications for understanding fossil hominin paleobiology at 1.5 Ma

Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution

Introduction: Hominin paleobiology in the early Pleistocene Okote Member, Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya

Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time

Lateral trends in carbon isotope ratios reveal a Miocene vegetation gradient in the Siwaliks of Pakistan

Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age.

Lyons et al. reply

Lyons et al. reply

Middle Pliocene hominin distribution patterns in Eastern Africa

Paleosol carbonates from the Omo Group: Isotopic records of local and regional environmental change in East Africa

Patterns of abundance and diversity in late Cenozoic bovids from the Turkana and Hadar Basins, Kenya and Ethiopia

Pleistocene animal communities of a 1.5 million-year-old lake margin grassland and their relationship to Homo erectus paleoecology

Pleistocene footprints show intensive use of lake margin habitats by Homo erectus groups

Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction

Small mid-Pleistocene hominin associated with East African Acheulean technology

Spatial, temporal and taxonomic scaling of richness in an eastern African large mammal community

Strontium increases and crystallinity changes in taphonomic and archaeological bone

Taphonomic and ecologic information from bone weathering

Taphonomy and paleobiology

The Oltulelei Formation of the southern Kenyan Rift Valley: A chronicle of rapid landscape transformation over the last 500 k.y

Time resolution in fluvial vertebrate assemblages ⬇️

Trampling as a cause of bone surface damage and pseudo-cutmarks

Vertebrate preservation in fluvial channels