![]() Here we combine δ 13C enamel data from a large dataset ( n = 1,643) with multidecadal Landsat estimates of C 3 woody cover across 30 African ecosystems to show that there is little relationship between intrataxonomic variation in δ 13C enamel and vegetation structure. However, a strong link between δ 13C enamel of herbivores and ecosystem vegetation structure has not been rigorously established. Many palaeoecological studies implicitly or explicitly assume that individual variation in C 3–C 4 plant consumption among fossil herbivores directly reflects the abundance of C 3 (trees, shrubs) or C 4 (low-altitude tropical grasses) vegetation. ![]() Analysis of enamel stable carbon isotopes (δ 13C enamel) of fossil herbivores is an important tool for making inferences about Plio-Pleistocene vegetation structure in Africa and the environmental context of hominin evolution.
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