Primate ?13C Values Reflect Aspects of Ecology

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Primate ?13C Values Reflect Aspects of Ecology

• Margaret J. Schoeninger
• University of CA at San Diego
• mjschoen_at_ucsd.edu

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(Broadmeadow et al., 1992van der MerweMedina,
1989) GartenTaylor, 1992 Vogel, 1978)
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(Fleagle, 1995)
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Majority ofprimates feedon C3 foods live in
C3 environments
Cebus - insectsfruit(Bloom Primate Atlas)
New Worldmonkey species
Ateles - fruitleaves(Schwake photo)
(Bloom Primate Atlas)
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Gallery dry forests
AlouattaHowler leavesfruit(Glander Photo)
(Glander Photo)
Brachyteles - muriqui -fruit leaves (Gaulin
photo)
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2 species of Galagoinsectsfruit-East Africa
Dry forests (Strier photo)
Lepilemurfolivore-Madagascardrought forest
3 prosimian speciesAfrica Madagascar
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(Lemur catta data fromLoudon et al. 2006)
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Telle inN.Congo
Miombo woodlandW.Tanzania
(Bloom Primate Atlas)
Within species variationChimpanzee
Gallery forest inDR Congo
Photos by Jim Moore
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(Miombo 2 dataSponheimer et al. 2006)
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?13CPDB in hair and keratin
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(Neandertal dataBoucherens, in press)
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1.5 added to original data to correct for
values in modern atmosphere
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South African cave sites
1.7 Ma
3 Ma
(Data fromLee-Thorp, Sponheimerand colleagues)
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Makapansgat, South Africa 3 mya
(fossil dataLee-Thorpcolleagues)
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Paleoecologyof HumanEvolution
(Schoeninger, 1995)
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Neandertal and early modernhuman behavior
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Primate Conservation
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Acknowledgements

• National Science Foundation, Wisconsin Alumni
  Research Foundation, Regents of the State of
  California
• Urszula Iwaniec, Leanne Nash, Jim Moore, Jeanne
  Sept, Ken Glander