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Modern-day African softshell turtles have less diverse diets than their ancient counterparts, with human-driven agriculture and carrion likely shaping their change in foraging

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Stable isotope evidence of anthropocene disruption in African softshell turtle foraging

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A big softshell turtle; image taken at Dalaman.

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Credit: Willemien de Kock, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Modern-day African softshell turtles have less diverse diets than their ancient counterparts, with human-driven agriculture and carrion likely shaping their change in foraging

Article URL: https://plos.io/4k8K2kF

Article title: Stable isotope evidence of anthropocene disruption in African softshell turtle foraging

Author countries: The Netherlands, Denmark, U.K., Italy, U.S., Türkiye.

Funding: The first author received support from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network SeaChanges, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 813383), and from the Netherlands Sectorplan Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH, 2022). This study was funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Ecology Fund under grant number KNAWWF/747/ECO2021-17. There was no additional external funding received for this study.


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