Dr. Gildas Merceron

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsPalaeontology
Keywords3D Dental Microwear, Ecology, Climate, Neogene, Mammals

Current contact address

CountryFrance
CityPoitiers
InstitutionUniversite de Poitiers
InstituteUMR 7262 CNRS INEE
Homepagehttp://palevoprim.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/equipe/direction-et-gestion/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Thomas M. KaiserBiozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2006

Programme(s)

2005Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2014Gildas Merceron, Emilia Hofman-Kaminska, Rafał Kowalczyk: 3D dental microwear texture analysis of feeding habits of sympatric ruminants in the Białowieza Primeval Forest, Poland. In: Forest Ecology and Management, 2014, 262-269
2014Ellen Schulz, Vanessa Piotrowski, Marcus Clauss, Marcus Mau, Gildas Merceron, Thomas M. Kaiser Dietary Abrasiveness Is Associated with Variability of Microwear and Dental Surface Texture in Rabbits. In: PLoS ONE, 2014, e56167
2014Julien Clavel, Gildas Merceron, and Gilles Escarguel: Missing Data Estimation in Morphometrics: How Much is Too Much?. In: Systematic Biology, 2014, 203-218
2013Kévin Rey, Romain Amiot, Christophe Lécuyer, George D. Koufos, François Martineau, François Fourel, Dimitri S. Kostopoulos, Gildas Merceron: Late Miocene climatic and environmental variations in northern Greece inferred from stable isotope compositions (d18O, d13C) of equid teeth apatite. In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2013, 48-57
2013Thomas Tütken, Thomas M. Kaiser, Torsten Vennemann, Gildas Merceron: Opportunistic Feeding Strategy for the Earliest Old World Hypsodont Equids: Evidence from Stable Isotope and Dental Wear Proxies. 2013, e74463
2013Gildas Merceron, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Louis de Bonis, François Fourel, George D. Koufos, Christophe Lécuyer, François Martineau: Stable isotope ecology of Miocene bovids from northern Greece and the ape/monkey turnover in the Balkans. In: Journal of Human Evolution, 2013, 185-198
2012Gildas Merceron, Loïc Costeur, Olivier Maridet, Anusha Ramdarshan, Ursula B. Göhlich: Multi-proxy approach detects heterogeneous habitats for primates during the Miocene climatic optimum in Central Europe. In: Journal of Human Evolution, 2012, 150-161
2012Julien Clavel, Gildas Merceron, Latinka Hristova, Nikolaï Spassov, Dimitar Kovachev, Gilles Escarguel: On Mesopithecus habitat: Insights from late Miocene fossil vertebrate localities of Bulgaria. In: Journal of Human Evolution, 2012, 162-179
2011Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Gildas Merceron: Correlating the success of Hippopotaminae with the C(4) grass expansion in Africa: Relationship and diet of early Pliocene hippopotamids from Langebaanweg, South Africa. In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2011, 350-361
2007Gildas Merceron, Cécile Blondel, Laurent Viriot, Georges D. Koufos, Louis de Bonis: Dental microwear analysis on bovids from the Vallesian (Late Miocene) of the Axios Valley in Greece: reconstruction of the habitat of Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Primates, Hominoidea) . In: Geodiversitas, 2007, 421-433
2007Peter S. Ungar, Gildas Merceron, Robert S. Scott : Dental microwear texture analysis of Varswater bovids and early Pliocene paleoenvironments of Langebaanweg, Western Cape Province, South Africa . In: Journal of Mammalian Evolution , 2007, 163-181
2007Ellen Schulz, Julia Fahlke, Gildas Merceron, Thomas Kaiser : Feeding ecology of the Chalicotheriidae ¿ results from dental micro- and mesowear analyses . In: Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Hamburg , 2007, 5-31
2007Gildas Merceron, Ellen Schulz, Laszlo Kordos, Thomas Kaiser: Palaeoenvironment of Dryopithecus brancoi at Rudabánya, Hungary evidence from dental meso and microwear analyses of large herbivorous mammals. In: Journal of Human Evolution, 2007, 331-349
2006Gildas Merceron, Antoine Zazzo, Nikolai Spassov, Denis Geraads, Dimitri Kovachev : Bovid paleoecology and paleoenvironments from the late Miocene of Bulgaria: evidence from dental microwear and stable isotopes . In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 2006, 637-654
2006Gildas Merceron, Sarah Taylor, Robert Scott, Yaowalak Chaimanee, Jean-Jacques Jaeger : Dietary characterization of the hominoid Khoratpithecus (Miocene of Thailand): evidence from dental topographic and microwear texture analyses . In: Naturwissenschaften, 2006, 329-333
2006Gildas Merceron, Stéphane Madelaine: Molar microwear pattern and paleoecology of ungulates from La Berbie (Dordogne, France): environment of Neanderthals and modern human populations at the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic . In: Boreas, 2006, 272-278
2006R. Macchiarelli, L. Bondioli, S. Caropreso, A. Mazurier, G. Merceron, E. Piana : The oldest human remains from the Beagle Channel Region, Tierra del Fuego . In: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2006, 328-337
2006Georges Koufos, Gildas Merceron, Dimitri Kostopoulos, Theodora Vlachou, Ioanna Sylvestrou: he late Miocene vertebrate locality of Perivolaki, Thessaly, Greece. 11. Palaeoecology and Palaeobiogeography . In: Palaeontographica A , 2006, 201-221
2005Gildas Merceron, Peter Ungar: Dental microwear and palaeoecology of bovids from the Early Pliocene of Langebaanweg, Cape Province, South Africa. In: South African Journal of Sciences, 2005, 365-370
Antoine Souron, Gildas Merceron, Cécile Blondel, Noël Brunetière, Marc Colyn, Emilia Hofman-Kamińska, Jean-Renaud Boisserie: Three-dimensional dental microwear texture analysis and diet in extant Suidae (Mammalia: Cetartiodactyla). In: Mammalia, ,