Fox dietary ecology as a tracer of human impact on Pleistocene ecosystems.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Chris Baumann, Hervé Bocherens, Dorothée G Drucker, Nicholas J Conard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Jura; Vulpes lagopus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235692; https://doaj.org/article/9b6dc671fff9475480ebcbfcc96b172d

Nowadays, opportunistic small predators, such as foxes (Vulpes vulpes and Vulpes lagopus), are well known to be very adaptable to human modified ecosystems. However, the timing of the start of this phenomenon in terms of human impact on ecosystems and of the implications for foxes has hardly been st...