As abundant and widespread apex predators, elasmobranchs play influential roles in the food-web dynamics of marine communities. This has obvious implications for fisheries management and marine conservation. For successful conservation, the ecology of a species must be known. An understanding of extinct species ecology is also useful. Unfortunately, diet a key component of a species’ ecology, is relatively understudied in elasmobranchs. For a majority of elasmobranch species, little or no quantitative dietary data exists. This reflects the limitations of current dietary defining methods. This thesis presents two alternative methods that can be used to determine the diet of extinct and extant elasmobranchs: meso-style wear analysis and 3D to...
Stereoscopic microwear and 3D surface texture analyses on the cheek teeth of ten Upper Triassic to L...
Elasmobranchii is a clade of chondrichthyans (cartilaginous fishes) that comprises sharks, skates an...
Reptiles are key components of modern ecosystems, yet for many species detailed characterisations of...
As abundant and widespread apex predators, elasmobranchs play influential roles in the food-web dyna...
As abundant and widespread predators, elasmobranchs play influential roles in food-web dynamics of m...
Fishes are a major component of modern aquatic ecosystems where they regulate some key biological pr...
Fishes are a major component of modern aquatic ecosystems where they regulate some key biological pr...
An understanding of how extinct animals functioned underpins our understanding of past evolutionary ...
The scratches found on teeth as a result of processing food items, referred to as tooth microwear, c...
Sharks are apex-predators that play an important role in past and present aquatic food webs. However...
Pterosaurs are an extinct group of Mesozoic flying reptiles that lived between 210 and 66 million ye...
Study of shark teeth and jaws represents an underutilized resource in understanding shark feeding ha...
The utility of orthodentine microwear analysis as a proxy for dietary reconstruction in xenarthrans ...
Lepidosauria show a large diversity in dietary adaptations, both among extant and extinct tetrapods....
Stereoscopic microwear and 3D surface texture analyses on the cheek teeth of ten Upper Triassic to L...
Stereoscopic microwear and 3D surface texture analyses on the cheek teeth of ten Upper Triassic to L...
Elasmobranchii is a clade of chondrichthyans (cartilaginous fishes) that comprises sharks, skates an...
Reptiles are key components of modern ecosystems, yet for many species detailed characterisations of...
As abundant and widespread apex predators, elasmobranchs play influential roles in the food-web dyna...
As abundant and widespread predators, elasmobranchs play influential roles in food-web dynamics of m...
Fishes are a major component of modern aquatic ecosystems where they regulate some key biological pr...
Fishes are a major component of modern aquatic ecosystems where they regulate some key biological pr...
An understanding of how extinct animals functioned underpins our understanding of past evolutionary ...
The scratches found on teeth as a result of processing food items, referred to as tooth microwear, c...
Sharks are apex-predators that play an important role in past and present aquatic food webs. However...
Pterosaurs are an extinct group of Mesozoic flying reptiles that lived between 210 and 66 million ye...
Study of shark teeth and jaws represents an underutilized resource in understanding shark feeding ha...
The utility of orthodentine microwear analysis as a proxy for dietary reconstruction in xenarthrans ...
Lepidosauria show a large diversity in dietary adaptations, both among extant and extinct tetrapods....
Stereoscopic microwear and 3D surface texture analyses on the cheek teeth of ten Upper Triassic to L...
Stereoscopic microwear and 3D surface texture analyses on the cheek teeth of ten Upper Triassic to L...
Elasmobranchii is a clade of chondrichthyans (cartilaginous fishes) that comprises sharks, skates an...
Reptiles are key components of modern ecosystems, yet for many species detailed characterisations of...