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Daryl Codron
Researcher at University of the Free State
Publications - 140
Citations - 4775
Daryl Codron is an academic researcher from University of the Free State. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tooth wear & Herbivore. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 132 publications receiving 4118 citations. Previous affiliations of Daryl Codron include University of Mainz & University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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Taxonomic, anatomical, and spatio-temporal variations in the stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions of plants from an African savanna
Jacqui Codron,Daryl Codron,Julia A. Lee-Thorp,Matt Sponheimer,William J. Bond,Darryl J. de Ruiter,Rina Grant +6 more
TL;DR: Variations in the isotopic compositions of plants collected over two years from the Kruger National Park, South Africa are document with respect to species and anatomical differences, and the influences of geological substrate and spatio-temporal shifts in climate are document.
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Hominins, sedges, and termites: new carbon isotope data from the Sterkfontein valley and Kruger National Park.
Matt Sponheimer,Matt Sponheimer,Julia A. Lee-Thorp,Darryl J. de Ruiter,Daryl Codron,Jacqui Codron,Alexander T. Baugh,Francis Thackeray +7 more
TL;DR: The consumption of C4 foods is a fundamental hominin trait that, along with bipedalism, allowed australopiths to pioneer increasingly open and seasonal environments.
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Assessing the Jarman–Bell Principle: Scaling of intake, digestibility, retention time and gut fill with body mass in mammalian herbivores
Dennis W. H. Müller,Daryl Codron,Carlo Meloro,Adam J. Munn,Angela Schwarm,Jürgen Hummel,Jürgen Hummel,Marcus Clauss +7 more
TL;DR: Traditional explanations for herbivore niche differentiation along a BM gradient should not be based on allometries of digestive physiology, and differences in the scaling of wet gut contents and dry matter gut contents confirm a previous finding that the dry matter concentration of gut contents decreases with body mass.
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Diets of savanna ungulates from stable carbon isotope composition of faeces
Daryl Codron,Jacqui Codron,Julia A. Lee-Thorp,Julia A. Lee-Thorp,Matt Sponheimer,Darryl J. de Ruiter,Judith Sealy,Rina Grant,Nicolaas H. Fourie +8 more
TL;DR: Cluster analysis based on a data matrix that incorporates the extent of spatio-temporal dietary variation among Kruger Park ungulates reveals several distinct categories of feeding preferences that extend beyond a two-edged browser/grazer dichotomy, such as mixed-feeders with a preference for either forage class, and spatial/seasonal shifts between uniform and mixed-feeding styles among variable browsers.
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Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins
Sandi R. Copeland,Matt Sponheimer,Darryl J. de Ruiter,Julia A. Lee-Thorp,Julia A. Lee-Thorp,Daryl Codron,Petrus le Roux,Vaughan Grimes,Michael P. Richards +8 more
TL;DR: Investigation of landscape use in Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus from the Sterkfontein and Swartkrans cave sites in South Africa uses strontium isotope analysis, a method that can help to identify the geological substrate on which an animal lived during tooth mineralization.