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Isotope Ecology from Biominerals

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Stable isotopes of carbon and oxygen can be used to make inferences about ancient climates and habitats. Biological hard tissues, particularly the biominerals of bioapatite, calcite , and aragonite are excellent archives of these isotopes and can be used to explore environments of Earth’s deep past.

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Higgins, P. (2018). Isotope Ecology from Biominerals. In: Croft, D., Su, D., Simpson, S. (eds) Methods in Paleoecology. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94265-0_7

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