
The author argues that regional radiocarbon databases can offer insights into predator-prey dynamics over centennial/millennial scales, using examples from Pleistocene Beringia and the Holocene Judean Desert.


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Predator-prey interactions have been a central theme in population ecology for the past century, but real-world data sets only exist for recent, relatively short (<100 years) time spans. This limits our ability to study centennial/millennial-scale predator-prey dynamics. We propose that regional radiocarbon databases can be used to reconstruct a signal of predator-prey population dynamics in deep time, overcoming this limitation. We support our argument with examples from Pleistocene Beringia and the Holocene Judean Desert.

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A note on predator-prey dynamics in radiocarbon datasets

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Exploring Predator-Prey Dynamics in Radiocarbon Datasets
