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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Restructuring of nutrient flows in island ecosystems following human colonization evidenced by isotopic analysis of commensal rats.

Jillian A Swift, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin, Patrick V Kirch

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  2. Fossils, fish and tropical forests: prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers of Oceania.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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4 authors.

Jillian A SwiftDepartment of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany; swift@shh.mpg.de kirch@berkeley.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7436-1947
Patrick RobertsDepartment of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.
Nicole BoivinDepartment of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.
Patrick V KirchDepartment of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 swift@shh.mpg.de kirch@berkeley.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of humans in shaping local ecosystems is an increasing focus of archaeological research, yet researchers often lack an appropriate means of measuring past anthropogenic effects on local food webs and nutrient cycling. Stable isotope analysis of commensal animals provides an effective proxy for local human environments because these species are closely associated with human activities without being under direct human management. Such species are thus central to nutrient flows across a range of socionatural environments and can provide insight into how they intersected and transformed over time. Here we measure and compare stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data from Pacific rat (

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AnimalsCarbonEcosystemFoodFood ChainHumansNitrogen IsotopesPacific IslandsRatsCarbonNitrogen Isotopescommensalismnutrient flowsPacific islandsRattus exulansstable isotopes

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PMID29866832
PMCPMC6016769

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