Skeletal and Dental Development Preserve Evidence of Energetic Stress in the Moose of Isle Royale
| Autor: | William J. Ripple, Caroline E. Rinaldi, Caitlin Brown, Blaire Van Valkenburgh |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Alces alces Ungulate ecosystem reconstruction mineralized tissue Population population irruption lcsh:Evolution Zoology Biology 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Population density 03 medical and health sciences stomatognathic system lcsh:QH540-549.5 medicine lcsh:QH359-425 ungulate education Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics enamel hypoplasia education.field_of_study Enamel paint Dentition Ecology 15. Life on land Enamel hypoplasia Tooth enamel biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Metapodial stomatognathic diseases 030104 developmental biology medicine.anatomical_structure visual_art visual_art.visual_art_medium lcsh:Ecology |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Vol 8 (2020) |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fevo.2020.00272/full |
| Popis: | Food shortages can leave diagnostic, and in the case of the dentition, irreversible changes in mineralized tissue that persist into historical and fossil records. Consequently, developmental defects of tooth enamel might be used to track ungulate population irruptions or declines in resource availability, but dental tissue’s capacity for preserving historical population density changes has yet to be investigated in wild populations. We test the ability of macroscopic enamel defects, mandible, and metapodial lengths to track changes in the well-known insular moose population of Isle Royale National Park. Our study demonstrates that (1) a moose density threshold exists on the island above for which there is a significant decrease in mandible and metatarsus length and a concomitant increase in enamel hypoplasias; (2) food limitation has a more pronounced effect on male than female skeletal and dental growth; and (3) combined data from tooth enamel hypoplasias and bone lengths reflect the relative density of this ungulate population and should be broadly applicable to other ungulate osteological samples. Developmental defects in dental enamel were among the highest recorded in a wild population, and even during low-density intervals the population density of Isle Royale moose has been high enough to negatively impact skeletal and dental growth, indicating the comparatively poor health of this isolated century-old ecosystem. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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