Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Review of the fur-mite genus Soricilichus Fain, 1970 (Acariformes: Chirodiscidae) - symbionts of the African shrews of the subfamily Crocidurinae (Soricomorpha: Soricidae)
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A new species of Hercostomus Loew, 1857 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Turkey
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Issid planthoppers from Bach Ma and Phong Dien in Central Vietnam. I. Tribe Parahiraciini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae)
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Exhumation de la collection faunique d’Edouard Dupont provenant du Trou Magrite (Pont-à-Less, Belgique). Quelles données et quelles perspectives pour une collection du XIX siècle ?
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Isotopic evidence for dietary ecology of late Neandertalsin North-Western Europe
- The Late Pleistocene site “Troisième caverne” of Goyet (Belgium) has yielded the broadest set of Neandertal remains in North-Western Europe and is associated with a rich and diverse large mammal assemblage. We reconstructed the dietary ecology at the site using stable isotope tracking (δ13C and δ15N) of bone collagen. The δ13C and δ15N values of all species are consistent with those observed in other “mammoth steppe” sites. The relative contribution of potential prey species to the diet of carnivores (including Neandertals) was evaluated using a Bayesian model. The distribution of individuals from herbivorous species and carnivorous ones was determined through cluster analysis in order to identify ecological niches, regardless of the individual species attribution. The Neandertals within the predator guild and the mammoth and reindeer as representatives of the herbivores occupied the most specific and most narrow ecological niches. The “Troisième caverne” of Goyet can be regarded as a key site for the investigation of Late Pleistocene Neandertal ecology north of the Alps.
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Ritual'nyj kompleks s prednamerennym pogrebeniem volka iz Bajkal'skoj Sibiri (Ritual complex with a deliberate wolf burial in Baikal Siberia).
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Intra-specific morphological variability in thecave bear Ursus spelaeus (Mammalia, Carnivora,Ursidae) from the Trou du Sureau (Montaiglecaves, Belgium) using an outline analysis
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Palaeoenvironmental and chronological investigations of the Magdalenian sites of GoyetCave and Trou de Chaleux (Belgium), via stable isotope and radiocarbon analyses of horse skeletal remains
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Reply to Bocherens: Dental microwear and stable isotopes on bone collagen are complementary to sort out cave bear diets
- Based on a dental microwear analysis, we demonstrated that cave bears from Goyet, Belgium, were generalist omnivores before dormancy (1). Bocherens (2) states that this interpretation may have been biased by the taxonomic composition of our comparative database, specifically by the absence of brown and black bears. First, the statement that these extant bears have a diet composed of grass, nuts, berries, and underground plant parts (2) provides an incomplete picture of the dietary ecology of bears. Actually, as expected for omnivores, diets of extant brown and black bears may be much more diverse, ranging from carnivory to herbivory depending on a great number of parameters (e.g., refs. 1, 3–5). Second, we do not believe that the addition of these extant species in our database would have altered our conclusions. It has been demonstrated that the differences in dental microwear pattern between extant species of carnivores do not reflect phylogenetic relationships, but feeding habits (6). Our database therefore aimed to cover all diets known in carnivoran mammals, which was more pertinent than completely covering one family only, e.g., Ursidae. Third, isotopic data mentioned by Bocherens (2) do not contradict our results. Isotopic studies provide an average diet over several years to a lifetime, whereas dental microwear analysis provides a perspective on seasonal variation in cave bear diet, e.g., the predormancy period (1). This finding indicates that studies only based on multiple approaches (morphology, geochemistry, dental microwear analysis) may provide a rather complete knowledge of the biology of an extinct species.
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Possible evidence of mammoth hunting during the Epigravettian at Yudinovo, Russian Plain
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Intraspecific phylogenetic analysis of Siberian woolly mammoths using complete mitochondrial genomes
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Nitrogen isotope analyses of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), 45,000BP to 9,000BP: Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions
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Isotopic biogeochemistry and the evolution of cave bear ecology during Marine Oxygen Isotopic Stage 3 in Western and Central Europe
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Ancient DNA reveals lack of postglacial habitat tracking in the arctic fox
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Fossil bear bones in the Belgian Upper Palaeolithic: the possibility of a proto-bear ceremonialism
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Whole-genome shotgun sequencing of mitochondria from ancient hair shafts
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Fiches descriptives des Habitats dans le cadre du PLAN D’AMENAGEMENT ET DE GESTION 2024-2034 : PARC NATIONAL DE LA KIBIRA
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La sépulture mésolithique du Petit Ri à Malonne (Namur, Belgique). Considérations archéologiques
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L'industrie lithique du Petit Ri à Malonne (Namur, Belgique)
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La sépulture mésolithique du Petit Ri à Malonne (Namur)
