Reconstructing cave bear paleoecology from skeletons: A cross-disciplinary study of middle Pleistocene bears from Yarimburgaz Cave, Turkey

Agriculture & Biology

• abrasives 5%
• analytical methods 4%
• animals 2%
• bones 12%
• carbon 3%
• caves 69%
• diet 7%
• dimorphism 5%
• estuaries 5%
• food plants 5%
• fossils 5%
• gender 5%
• grinding 5%
• grits (particle size) 7%
• habitats 2%
• hibernation 16%
• invertebrates 4%
• isotopes 14%
• linkage (genetics) 4%
• Marmara Sea 7%
• mastication 5%
• methodology 2%
• nitrogen 2%
• nuts 5%
• overwintering 5%
• oxygen 3%
• paleoecology 100%
• population structure 4%
• proteins 1%
• provenance 4%
• sampling 5%
• sex ratio 8%
• skeleton 63%
• teeth 17%
• testing 1%
• tooth enamel 6%
• tubers 4%
• Turkey (country) 53%
• Ursidae 6%
• Ursus 15%
• Ursus arctos 19%
• winter 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• analytical method 4%
• animal 3%
• bear 5%
• body mass 5%
• bone 11%
• breakage 5%
• carbon 2%
• cave 58%
• damage 3%
• dentition 5%
• diet 12%
• dimorphism 7%
• enamel 5%
• estuary 3%
• food 13%
• fossil 3%
• grinding 4%
• habitat 2%
• hibernation 21%
• invertebrate 4%
• isotope 7%
• isotopic composition 4%
• material 1%
• mortality 3%
• nitrogen isotope 5%
• Northern Hemisphere 4%
• nut 6%
• overwintering 6%
• oxygen 3%
• paleoecology 72%
• pathology 5%
• Pleistocene 48%
• population structure 5%
• protein 3%
• provenance 4%
• sea 2%
• sex ratio 12%
• skeleton 59%
• test 1%
• tooth 17%
• tuber 6%
• water 1%
• winter 2%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Animals 2%
• Aptitude 3%
• Bone and Bones 5%
• Carbon 4%
• Carpal Bones 7%
• Caves 92%
• Cheek 4%
• Dental Enamel 5%
• Dentition 5%
• Diet 10%
• Ecosystem 5%
• Edible Plants 6%
• Estuaries 7%
• Food 10%
• Fresh Water 5%
• Habits 4%
• Hibernation 21%
• Invertebrates 5%
• Isotopes 10%
• Longevity 4%
• Mastication 5%
• Mortality 2%
• Nitrogen Isotopes 9%
• Nuts 6%
• Oceans and Seas 5%
• Oxygen 3%
• Pathology 3%
• Population 7%
• Proteins 1%
• Sex Characteristics 4%
• Sex Ratio 11%
• Skeleton 65%
• Tooth 10%
• Tooth Crown 6%
• Turkey 67%
• Ursidae 21%
• Weight-Bearing 5%
• Wounds and Injuries 2%