Publications

(2010) Copeland, S.R., Sponheimer, M., Lee-Thorp, J.A., de Ruiter, D.J., le Roux, P.J., Grimes, V., Codron, D., Codron, J., Berger, L.R., Richards, M.P. Using strontium isotopes to study site accumulation processes. Journal of Taphonomy 8 (2-3), 115-127.

(2010) Copeland, S.R., Sponheimer, M., Lee-Thorp, J.A., le Roux, P.J., de Ruiter, D.J., Richards, M.P. Strontium isotope ratios in fossil teeth from South Africa: assessing laser ablation MC-ICP-MS analysis and the extent of diagenesis. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 1437-1446.

(2010) de Ruiter, D.J., Copeland, S.R., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Sponheimer, M. Investigating the role of eagles as accumulating agents in the dolomitic cave infills of South Africa. Journal of Taphonomy 8 (2-3), 129-154.

(2009) Copeland, S.R. Potential hominin plant foods in northern Tanzania: semi-arid savannas versus savanna chimpanzee sites. Journal of Human Evolution 57: 365-378.

(2009) Copeland, S.R., M. Sponheimer, C.A. Spinage, J. Lee-Thorp, D. Codron, K.E. Reed. Stable isotope evidence for impala Aepyceros melampus diets at Akagera National Park, Rwanda. African Journal of Ecology 47, 490-501.

(2008) Copeland, S.R., M. Sponheimer, P. le Roux, V. Grimes, J. Lee-Thorp, D. de Ruiter, M. Richards. Strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) of tooth enamel: a comparison of solution and laser ablation MC-ICP-MS methods. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 22: 3187-3194.

(2008) Copeland, S.R., M. Sponheimer, C.A. Spinage, J. Lee-Thorp. Bulk and intra-tooth enamel stable isotopes of waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus from Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. African Journal of Ecology 46: 697-701.

(2007) Copeland, S.R. Vegetation and plant food reconstruction of lowermost Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, using modern analogs. Journal of Human Evolution 53, 146-175.

(1999) Copeland, S.R. Plant foods for hominids in East African habitats. Crosscurrents 11: 24-31.

(1997) Copeland, S.R., J. Hamilton, J. Peters, A. Gearheart, L. Lundquist. Treefall densities within forest fragments of various sizes. In (McClearn, D., B. Boyle, and M. Blanco, Eds.) OTS 97-1. Tropical Biology: an Ecological Approach. pp.251-253.

(1997) Copeland, S.R. Fruit availability for understory birds in tree-fall gaps versus forest interior. In (McClearn, D., B. Boyle, and M. Blanco, Eds.) OTS 97-1. Tropical Biology: an Ecological Approach.

Published Abstracts

(2008) Copeland, S.R., J. Lee-Thorp, M. Sponheimer, D. de Ruiter, P. le Roux, V. Grimes, D. Codron, J. Codron, M. Richards. New strontium isotope evidence for hominin residence and ranging in the Sterkfontein Valley, South Africa. PaleoAnthropology 2008:A7.

(1999) Copeland, S.R. Establishing resolution in paleohabitat reconstructions with relevance to hominid adaptations. Supplement 28 to the American Journal of Physical Anthropology Annual Meeting Issue, p.111.

(1998) Deocampo, D.M., G.M. Ashley, S.R. Copeland. Springs and streams in an East African closed basin: controls on biological communities in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs v.30, no.1, p. 14.