Isotopic tracking of carnivore palaeoecology is a relatively new approach that yielded
important results for the study of the non-analogue mammoth steppe biome. After describing …

The Mammoth Steppe was the dominant terrestrial biome of the Northern Hemisphere
during the late Pleistocene. It encompassed a nonanalog community of animals living in a …

Previous bone collagen carbon and nitrogen isotopic studies of Late Pleistocene European
cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) have shown that these bears frequently had low nitrogen …

More than 300 cave bear bones from all over Europe have carbon and nitrogen isotopic
composition that match overwhelmingly a diet based on plants, except for samples from two …

Collagen, the organic fraction of bone, records the isotopic parameters of consumed food for
carbon (δ 13 C) and nitrogen (δ 15 N). This relationship of isotopic signature between diet …

Abstract The Cave Bear, Ursus spelaeus (sensu lato), was one of many megafaunal species
that became extinct during the Late Pleistocene in Europe. With new data we revisit the …

Previous morphological and isotopic studies indicate that Late Pleistocene cave bear (Ursus
spelaeus) diet ranged from mostly vegetarian to omnivory or even carnivory. However, such …

Palaeoclimatic data that can be extracted from the isotopic signatures of δ13C and δ15N,
which are found in fossil bone collagen, should be analysed according to the specific …

Climate changes that occurred during the Late Pleistocene have profound effects on the
distribution of many plant and animal species and influenced the formation of contemporary …

Several types of bears lived in Europe during the Late Pleistocene. Some of them, such as
cave bears (Ursus s. spelaeus and Ursus ingressus), did not survive after about 25,000 …