A view of the river and trees at South Turkwell

The below and other publications are available at ResearchGate.

  • Loudon, J.E., Sandberg, P.A., Wrangham, R.W., Fahey, B. & Sponheimer, M. (2016). The Stable Isotope Ecology of Pan in Uganda and Beyond. American Journal of Primatology. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22552.
  • Codron, D., Codron,  J., Sponheimer, M. & Clauss, M. (2016). Within-population isotopic niche variability in savanna mammals: disparity between carnivores and herbivores. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 4:15. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00015.
  • Codron, J., Duffy, K.J., Avenant, N.L., Sponheimer, M., Leichliter, J., Paine, O., Sandberg, P., Codron, D. (2015). Stable isotope evidence for trophic niche partitioning in a South African savanna rodent community. Current Zoology 61(3): 397–411.
  • Bender, R.L., Dufour, D.L.,  Valenzuela, L.O., Cerling, T.E., Sponheimer, M., Reina, J.C., Ehleringer, J.R. (2015). Stable Isotopes (Carbon, Nitrogen, Sulfur), Diet, and Anthropometry in Urban Colombian Women: Investigating Socioeconomic Differences. American Journal of Human Biology 27: 207-218. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22640.
  • Sandberg PA, Sponheimer M, Lee-Thorp J, Van Gerven D. (2014). Intra-tooth stable isotope analysis of dentine: A step toward addressing selective mortality in the reconstruction of life history in the archaeological record. Am J Phys Anthropol 155:281–293.
  • Le Roux PJ, Lee-Thorp JA, Copeland SR, Sponheimer M, de Ruiter DJ. (2014). Strontium isotope analysis of curved tooth enamel surfaces by laser-ablation multi-collector ICP-MS. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 416, 142-149.
  • Loudon, J.E., Grobler, J.P., Sponheimer, M., Moyer, K., Lorenz, J.G., Turner, T.R. (2014). Using the Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Compositions of Vervet Monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) to Examine Questions in Ethnoprimatology. PLoS ONE 9(7): e100758. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100758
  • Frost, G.S., Walton, G.E., Swann, J.R., Psichas, A., Costabile, A., Johnson, L.P., Sponheimer, M., Gibson, G.R., Barraclough, T.G. (2014). Impacts of plant-based foods in ancestral hominin diets on the metabolism and function of gut microbiota in vitro. mBio 5, e00853-14.
  • Sponheimer, M. & Cerling, T.E. (2014). Investigating Ancient Diets Using Stable Isotopes in Bioapatites. Treatise of Geochemistry Volume 14: Archaeology and Anthropology. Elsevier. Pages 341–355.
  • Sponheimer, M., Lee-Thorp, J., Reed, K.  & Ungar, P., Eds.  (2013). Early Hominin Paleoecology. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
  • Sponheimer, M., Lee-Thorp, J.A. & Codron, D. (2013). A Brief Update on Developments in Early Hominin Biogeochemistry. In R. Armitage & J. Burton (Eds), Archaeological Chemistry VIII. American Chemical Society.
  • Wynn, J.G., Sponheimer, M., Kimbel, W.H., Alemseged, Z., Reed, K., Bedaso, Z.K. & Wilson, J.N. (2013). Diet of Australopithecus afarensis from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Ethiopia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA. doi:10.1073/pnas.1222559110
  • Sponheimer, M., Alemseged, Z., Cerling, T.E., Grine, F.E., Kimbel, W.H., Leakey, M.G., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Manthi, F.K., Reed, K.E., Wood, B.A. & Wynn, J.G. (2013).  Isotopic Evidence of Early Hominin Diets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA. doi:10.1073/pnas.1222579110
  • Lee-Thorp, J. & Sponheimer, M. (2013). Hominin Paleoecology from Hard Tissue Biogeochemistry. In M. Sponheimer, J. Lee-Thorp, K. Reed & P. Ungar (Eds), Early Hominin Paleoecology. University Press of Colorado, Boulder, pp 281-324.
  • Codron, J., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Sponheimer, M. & Codron, D. (2013). Plant stable isotope composition across habitat gradients in a semi-arid savanna: implications for environmental reconstruction. Journal of Quaternary Science 28, 301-310.
  • Ungar, P.S. & Sponheimer, M. (2013). Hominin Diets. Companion to Paleoanthropology. D. Begun (ed.), Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, pp. 165-182.
  • Sponheimer, M. (2013). Some Ruminations on Australopith Diets. In K. Reed, J. Fleagle & R. Leakey (eds.) The Paleobiology of Australopithecus. Springer, Dordrecht, pp 225-233.
  • Codron, J., Kirkman, K., Duffy, KJ., Sponheimer, M., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Ganswindt, A., Clauss, M. &  Codron, D. (2013). Stable isotope turnover and variability in tail hairs of captive and free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta africana) reveal dietary niche differences within populations. Canadian Journal of Zoology 91, 124–134.