List of works - Matt Sponheimer

'Remote' behavioural ecology: do megaherbivores consume vegetation in proportion to its presence in the landscape?

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

A Brief Update on Developments in Early Hominin Biogeochemistry

Advances in primate stable isotope ecology-Achievements and future prospects

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

Alteration of Enamel Carbonate Environments during Fossilization

An examination of triassic cynodont tooth enamel chemistry using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.

scientific article

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

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

Bulk and intra-tooth enamel stable isotopes of waterbuckKobus ellipsiprymnusfrom Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

scholarly article by Sandi R. Copeland et al published December 2008 in African Journal of Ecology

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

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

scientific article

Conservation: New Potential for Stable Isotope Analysis?

Contributions of biogeochemistry to understanding hominin dietary ecology

scientific article

Craniofacial biomechanics and functional and dietary inferences in hominin paleontology

scientific article published on 15 March 2010

DIETS OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN BOVIDAE: STABLE ISOTOPE EVIDENCE

article

Dental microwear and stable isotopes inform the paleoecology of extinct hominins

scientific article published on June 2012

Diet of Australopithecus afarensis from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Ethiopia

scientific article (publication date: 25 June 2013)

Diet of Paranthropus boisei in the early Pleistocene of East Africa

scientific article

Dietary Evolution: The Panda Paradox

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Dietary flexibility of Australopithecus afarensis in the face of paleoecological change during the middle Pliocene: Faunal evidence from Hadar, Ethiopia.

scientific article

Dietary trends in herbivores from the Shungura Formation, southwestern Ethiopia

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

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

scientific article published on September 2003

Digestibility and nitrogen retention in llamas and goats fed alfalfa, C3 grass, and C4 grass hays

Digestion and passage rates of grass hays by llamas, alpacas, goats, rabbits, and horses

Do "savanna" chimpanzees consume C4 resources?

scientific article

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

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Early dispersal of domestic horses into the Great Plains and northern Rockies

scientific article published on 31 March 2023

Erratum: Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

scientific article published in Nature

Grass leaves as potential hominin dietary resources

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

Hominin Diets

Hominin Ecology from Hard-Tissue Biogeochemistry

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

Indications of habitat association of Australopithecus robustus in the Bloubank Valley, South Africa

scientific article published on 27 September 2008

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

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)

Isotopic evidence for dietary variability in the early hominin Paranthropus robustus

scientific article

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

scientific article published in January 1999

Isotopic evidence for the timing of the dietary shift toward C4 foods in eastern African Paranthropus

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

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

scientific article

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

article

Nanoindentation of lemur enamel: an ecological investigation of mechanical property variations within and between sympatric species

scientific article published on June 2012

Nanomechanical properties of modern and fossil bone

scientific article published in April 2010

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

scholarly article

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

article

Oxygen Isotopes in Enamel Carbonate and their Ecological Significance

Problems with Paranthropus

scientific article published in 2023

Reply to Fontes-Villalba et al.: On a reluctance to conjecture about animal food consumption

scientific article published on October 2013

Saving Old Bones: a non-destructive method for bone collagen prescreening

scientific article published on 26 September 2019

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

scientific article published on May 2007

Small mammal insectivore stable carbon isotope compositions as habitat proxies in a South African savanna ecosystem

article

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

scientific article

Stable carbon isotope ecology of small mammals from the Sterkfontein Valley: Implications for habitat reconstruction

scholarly article by Jennifer Leichliter published in November 2017

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

Stable isotope analysis in primatology: a critical review

scientific article

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

Stable isotope evidence for impalaAepyceros melampusdiets at Akagera National Park, Rwanda

article

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

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2012)

Stable isotope turnover and variability in tail hairs of captive and free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta africana) reveal dietary niche differences within populations

scientific article published in 2013

Stable isotopes (carbon, nitrogen, sulfur), diet, and anthropometry in urban Colombian women: investigating socioeconomic differences

scientific article published on 12 October 2014

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

scientific article (publication date: 27 October 2010)

Strontium isotope analysis of curved tooth enamel surfaces by laser-ablation multi-collector ICP-MS

scholarly article by P.J. Le Roux published in December 2014

Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

scientific article (publication date: 2 June 2011)

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

scientific article

Strontium isotope ratios in fossil teeth from South Africa: assessing laser ablation MC-ICP-MS analysis and the extent of diagenesis

article

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

article

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

article

The Reaction Progress Variable and Isotope Turnover in Biological Systems

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

scientific article published on 17 February 2012

The diet of Australopithecus sediba

scientific article published in July 2012

The diets of early hominins

scientific article published on October 2011

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

scientific article published on 11 May 2005

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

scientific article published on January 2001

The stable isotope ecology of Pan in Uganda and beyond

scientific article

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

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

Tracking the fate of digesta 13C and 15N compositions along the ruminant gastrointestinal tract: Does digestion influence the relationship between diet and faeces?

article

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published in January 2006

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

scientific article

Using the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope compositions of vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) to examine questions in ethnoprimatology

scientific article

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

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

Within-Population Isotopic Niche Variability in Savanna Mammals: Disparity between Carnivores and Herbivores

scientific article published in 2016

List of works by Matt Sponheimer

'Remote' behavioural ecology: do megaherbivores consume vegetation in proportion to its presence in the landscape?

A Brief Update on Developments in Early Hominin Biogeochemistry

Advances in primate stable isotope ecology-Achievements and future prospects

Alteration of Enamel Carbonate Environments during Fossilization

An examination of triassic cynodont tooth enamel chemistry using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.

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

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

Bulk and intra-tooth enamel stable isotopes of waterbuckKobus ellipsiprymnusfrom Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

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

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

Conservation: New Potential for Stable Isotope Analysis?

Contributions of biogeochemistry to understanding hominin dietary ecology

Craniofacial biomechanics and functional and dietary inferences in hominin paleontology

DIETS OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN BOVIDAE: STABLE ISOTOPE EVIDENCE

Dental microwear and stable isotopes inform the paleoecology of extinct hominins

Diet of Australopithecus afarensis from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Ethiopia

Diet of Paranthropus boisei in the early Pleistocene of East Africa

Dietary Evolution: The Panda Paradox

Dietary flexibility of Australopithecus afarensis in the face of paleoecological change during the middle Pliocene: Faunal evidence from Hadar, Ethiopia.

Dietary trends in herbivores from the Shungura Formation, southwestern Ethiopia

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

Digestibility and nitrogen retention in llamas and goats fed alfalfa, C3 grass, and C4 grass hays

Digestion and passage rates of grass hays by llamas, alpacas, goats, rabbits, and horses

Do "savanna" chimpanzees consume C4 resources?

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

Early dispersal of domestic horses into the Great Plains and northern Rockies

Erratum: Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

Grass leaves as potential hominin dietary resources

Hominin Diets

Hominin Ecology from Hard-Tissue Biogeochemistry

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

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

Indications of habitat association of Australopithecus robustus in the Bloubank Valley, South Africa

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

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

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

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

Isotopic evidence for dietary variability in the early hominin Paranthropus robustus

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

Isotopic evidence for the timing of the dietary shift toward C4 foods in eastern African Paranthropus

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

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

Nanoindentation of lemur enamel: an ecological investigation of mechanical property variations within and between sympatric species

Nanomechanical properties of modern and fossil bone

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

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

Oxygen Isotopes in Enamel Carbonate and their Ecological Significance

Problems with Paranthropus

Reply to Fontes-Villalba et al.: On a reluctance to conjecture about animal food consumption

Saving Old Bones: a non-destructive method for bone collagen prescreening

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

Small mammal insectivore stable carbon isotope compositions as habitat proxies in a South African savanna ecosystem

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

Stable carbon isotope ecology of small mammals from the Sterkfontein Valley: Implications for habitat reconstruction

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

Stable isotope analysis in primatology: a critical review

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

Stable isotope evidence for impalaAepyceros melampusdiets at Akagera National Park, Rwanda

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

Stable isotope turnover and variability in tail hairs of captive and free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta africana) reveal dietary niche differences within populations

Stable isotopes (carbon, nitrogen, sulfur), diet, and anthropometry in urban Colombian women: investigating socioeconomic differences

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

Strontium isotope analysis of curved tooth enamel surfaces by laser-ablation multi-collector ICP-MS

Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

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

Strontium isotope ratios in fossil teeth from South Africa: assessing laser ablation MC-ICP-MS analysis and the extent of diagenesis

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

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

The Reaction Progress Variable and Isotope Turnover in Biological Systems

The Reaction Progress Variable and Isotope Turnover in Biological Systems

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

The diet of Australopithecus sediba

The diets of early hominins

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

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

The stable isotope ecology of Pan in Uganda and beyond

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

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

Tracking the fate of digesta 13C and 15N compositions along the ruminant gastrointestinal tract: Does digestion influence the relationship between diet and faeces?