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

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Baumann, Chris, Bocherens, Hervé, Drucker, Dorothée G., Conard, Nicholas J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2020
• Subjects: Research Article; Jura; Vulpes lagopus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7375521/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32697783; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235692

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...