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Título: | Taphonomic information from the modern vertebrate death assemblage of Doñana National Park, Spain |
Autor: | Domingo, María Soledad; Martín-Perea, David Manuel CSIC ORCID ; Badgley, Catherine; Cantero, Enrique CSIC; López-Guerrero, Paloma; Oliver, Adriana; Negro, Juan J. CSIC ORCID | Fecha de publicación: | 2020 | Editor: | Public Library of Science | Citación: | PLoS ONE 15: e0242082 (2020) | Resumen: | Modern death assemblages provide insights about the early stages of fossilization and useful ecological information about the species inhabiting the ecosystem. We present the results of taphonomic monitoring of modern vertebrate carcasses and bones from Doñana National Park, a Mediterranean coastal ecosystem in Andalusia, Spain. Ten different habitats were surveyed. Half of them occur in active depositional environments (marshland, lake margin, river margin, beach and dunes). Most of the skeletal remains belong to land mammals larger than 5 kg in body weight (mainly wild and feral ungulates). Overall, the Doñana bone assemblage shows good preservation with little damage to the bones, partly as a consequence of the low predator pressure on large vertebrates. Assemblages from active depositional habitats differ significantly from other habitats in terms of the higher incidence of breakage and chewing marks on bones in the latter, which result from scavenging, mainly by wild boar and red fox. The lake-margin and river-margin death assemblages have high concentrations of well preserved bones that are undergoing burial and offer the greatest potential to produce fossil assemblages. The spatial distribution of species in the Doñana death assemblage generally reflects the preferred habitats of the species in life. Meadows seem to be a preferred winter habitat for male deer, given the high number of shed antlers recorded there. This study is further proof that taphonomy can provide powerful insights to better understand the ecology of modern species and to infer past and future scenarios for the fossil record. | Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242082 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/228289 | DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0242082 | Identificadores: | doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242082 issn: 1932-6203 |
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