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Ressource Partitioning

Mesowear Database

Sharjah Donkey Project

Herbivores and Landscapes

Palaeoecology

Sub-Sahara-Palaeogene-Project (SSPP)

Zambia Palaeokarst Research Projct (ZPRP)

Characterize dental contact faces using 3D-micro-texture Analysis

Relating occlusal topography with masticatory efficiency

Cave Taphonomy

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Lectures | Student Projects | Seminaries for Graduates

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Lectures:

Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrate Skeleton

Chondrichthyes, Osteichtyes, Amphibia, Reptilia, Mammalia

Student Projects available:
(WS 2007/2008)

General topics:

Differential dietary diagnosis in african bovids and equids

Dietary segregation in palaeotropic ungulates

Evoltution of terrestrial ecosystems in the Neogene

Trophic diversity of herbivorous mammals

Sexual dietary segregation in ungulates

Ontogenetic gradients in the dentition of extant and fossil equids

Ontogenetic variability of parameters of the occlusal surface in molariform teeth of herbivorous mammals

Evolutiopn of Neogene and Palaeogene terrestrial Ecosystems in Sub-Saharan-Africa

Turnover in Pleistocene faunas in Central Africa

Practical Classes:

Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrate Skeleton (2 weeks at the end of the term)

including introduction into functional morphology, archaeozoology, taphonomy, and bone chemistry

•  DZG-Workschop Morphologie: 3D Visualisierung und -Analyse, 24. — 27. Juli 2007. http://web.mac.com/pyxicephalus/iWeb/Morphologie/Mitteilungen/Mitteilungen.html

past Project Classes:

•  Dental microwear pattern, feeding habits, and niche partitioning of sympatric proboscidians from the Neogene of Europe.

•  Diffferentielle Mikrowearanalyse von kontolliert gefüttterten Kaninchen ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ).

•  Dental microwear pattern and dietary habits of fossil meso-herbivores from Csakvar (Late Miocene of Hungary ).

•  3-D Schmelzbandmorphometrie ausgewählter rezenter und fossilerArtiodactyla.

•  Vergleichende Microwear-Analyse der Geschlechtersegregation bei Alces alces, Cervus elaphus und Rupicapra rupicapra.

•  Dental-microwear-Analyse und Bestimmung der Nahrungspräferenzen bei Chalicotherium grande und Chalicotherium goldfussi

•  Osteologische Diagnose des dentalen Materials der pleistozänen Wirbeltierlokalitäten Lunyemu und Chanyungue Cave (Sambia).

•  Ontogenetische Gradienten im dentalen Usurmuster ausgewählter Primaten (3-D Analysed von Zahnkronen).

•  Sexual dietary segregation in ruminat populations : Es wird die Geschlechtersegregation im Ernährungsverhalten verschiedener Wiederkäuer gemessen und mit biometrischen Danten sowie Habitatdaten korrelliert.

•  Rekonstruktion von Nahrungssegregation in einer Population von Alces alces auf der Basis dentaler Usurgradienten – Rekonstruktion der Geschlechtersegregation im Ernährungsverhalten.

Seminaries for graduates and undergraduates:

Mammalian dietary Biology (winter term)

Palaozoology and Archaeozoology (summer term)

 

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