Publications of Tina Lüdecke

Meijers, M. J. M., Mikes, T., Rojay, B., Cubukcu, H. E., Aydar, E., Lüdecke, T. and Mulch, A.: Climate change drove Late Miocene to Pliocene rise and fall of C₄ vegetation at the crossroads of Africa and Eurasia (Anatolia, Turkiye), Climate of the Past, 22(5), 975–988, doi:10.5194/cp-22-975-2026, 2026.

Brömme, S., Oelze, V. M., Martinez-Garcia, A., Leichliter, J. N., Haug, G. H., Vonhof, H. B., Stewart, F. A., Piel, A. K. and Lüdecke, T.: Multi-isotope analysis reconstructs termite feeding in chimpanzees, Scientific Reports, 16(1), doi:10.1038/s41598-026-45049-4, 2026.

Camagni, V., Sestaioni, D., Ventisette, S., Gatti, L., Bray, F., Rolando, C., Lüdecke, T., Sciutto, G., Prati, S., Mazzeo, R. and Scarano, S.: A molecular finger-imprinting approach for detecting dental enamel amelogenins via surface plasmon resonance and bio-layer interferometry, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 294, doi:10.1016/j.bios.2025.118217, 2026.

Vink, M., Leichliter, J. N., Green, D. R., Brömme, S., Tacail, T., Kindler, L., Roebroeks, W., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Haug, G. H., Vonhof, H. B., Martinez-Garcia, A., Tütken, T. and Lüdecke, T.: Eemian climate seasonality reconstructed from intra-tooth oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen stable isotopes in equid enamel from Neumark-Nord 2, Germany, Quaternary Science Reviews, 373, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109724, 2026.

Bourgon, N., Lüdecke, T., Leichliter, J. N., Bauman chris, C., Brömme, S., Vink, M., Bacon, A.-M., McCormack, J., Nguyen, T. M. H., Nguyen, A. T., Antoine, P.-O., Ponche, J.-L., Duringer, P., Demeter, F., Boualaphane, S., Luangkhoth, T., Dufour, E., Hublin, J.-J., Jaouen, K., Tütken, T., Martinez-Garcia, A. and Roberts, P.: Faunal persistence and ecological flexibility in Pleistocene Southeast Asia revealed through multi-isotope analysis, Science Advances, 11(42), doi:10.1126/sciadv.adu3642, 2025.

Danielisová, A., Maiorano, M. P., Šneberger, J., Ackerman, L., Daněček, D., Garba, R., Martinez-Garcia, A. and Lüdecke, T.: The first collective Neolithic megalithic tomb in Oman, Antiquity, 99, doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.10146 , 2025.

Ferreira da Silva, M. J., Tralma, P., Colmonero-Costeira, I., Cravo-Mota, M., Farassi, R., Hammond, P., Lewis-Bevan, L., Bamford, M. K., Biro, D., Lüdecke, T., Mathe, J., Bobe, R., Capelli, C., Carvalho, S. and Martinez, F. I.: Sex-mediated Gene Flow in Grayfoot Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus griseipes) in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, International Journal of Primatology, 46(3), 705–736, doi:10.1007/s10764-025-00494-2, 2025.

Biro, D., Muschinski, J., Hammond, P., Bobe, R., Bamford, M. K., Capelli, C., d'Oliveira Coelho, J., Farassi, R., Lüdecke, T., Martinez, F. I., Mathe, J., Silva, M. J. F. and Carvalho, S.: West Side Story: Regional Inter-Troop Variation in Baboon Bark-Stripping at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, American journal of biological anthropology, 187(1), doi:10.1002/ajpa.70057, 2025.

Lüdecke, T., Leichliter, J. N., Stratford, D., Sigman, D. M., Vonhof, H., Haug, G. H., Bamford, M. K. and Martinez-Garcia, A.: Australopithecus at Sterkfontein did not consume substantial mammalian meat, Science, 387(6731), 309–314, doi:10.1126/science.adq7315, 2025.

Danielisova, A., Maiorano, M. P., Sneberger, J., Ackerman, L., Danecek, D., Garba, R., Martinez-Garcia, A. and Lüdecke, T.: The first collective Neolithic megalithic tomb in Oman, Antiquity, 99(408), doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.10146, 2025.

Wang, X., Bocksberger, G., Arandjelovic, M., Agbor, A., Angedakin, S., Aubert, F., Ayimisin, E. A., Bailey, E., Barubiyo, D., Bessone, M., Bobe, R., Bonnet, M., Boucher, R., Brazzola, G., Brewer, S., Lee, K. C., Carvalho, S., Chancellor, R., Cipoletta, C., Cohen, H., Copeland, S. R., Corogenes, K., Costa, A. M., Coupland, C., Curran, B., de Ruiter, D. J., Deschner, T., Dieguez, P., Dierks, K., Dilambaka, E., Dowd, D., Dunn, A., Egbe, V. E., Finckh, M., Fruth, B., Gijanto, L., Yuh, Y. G., Goedmakers, A., Gokee, C., Gomes Coelho, R., Goodman, A. H., Granjon, A.-C., Grimes, V., Grueter, C. C., Haour, A., Hedwig, D., Hermans, V., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., Hohmann, G., Imong, I., Jeffery, K. J., Jones, S., Junker, J., Kadam, P., Kambere, M., Kambi, M., Kienast, I., Knudson, K. J., Langergraber, K. E., Lapeyre, V., Lapuente, J., Larson, B., Lautenschlaeger, T., le Roux, P., Leinert, V., Llana, M., Logan, A., Lowry, B., Lüdecke, T., Maretti, G., Marrocoli, S., Fernandez, R., Mcneill, P. J., Meier, A. C., Meller, P., Monroe, J. C., Morgan, D., Mulindahabi, F., Murai, M., Neil, E., Nicholl, S., Niyigaba, P., Normand, E., Ormsby, L. J., Diotoh, O., Pacheco, L., Piel, A., Preece, J., Regnaut, S., Richard, F. G., Richards, M. P., Rundus, A., Sanz, C., Sommer, V., Sponheimer, M., Steele, T. E., Stewart, F. A., Tagg, N., Tedonzong, L. R., et al.: Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade, Nature Communications, 15(1), doi:10.1038/s41467-024-55256-0, 2024.

Comans, C. M., Smart, S. M., Kast, E. R., Lu, Y. H., Lüdecke, T., Leichliter, J. N., Sigman, D. M., Ikejiri, T. and Martinez-Garcia, A.: Enameloid-bound δ¹⁵N reveals large trophic separation among Late Cretaceous sharks in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Geobiology, 22(1), doi:10.1111/gbi.12585, 2024.

Moretti, S., Duprey, N. N., Foreman, A. D., Arns, A., Brömme, S., Jung, J., Ai, X. E., Auderset, A., Bieler, A. L., Eck, C., Farmer, J., Hinnenberg, B., Lacerra, M., Leichliter, J., Lüdecke, T., Oleynik , S., Rubach, F., Schmitt, M., Vink, M., Wald, T., Yehudai, M., Sigman , D. M. and Martinez-Garcia, A.: Analytical improvements and assessment of long-term performance of the oxidation-denitrifier method, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 38(1), doi:10.1002/rcm.9650, 2024.

Bobe, R., Aldeias, V., Alemseged, Z., Anemone, R. L., Archer, W., Aumaître, G., Bamford, M. K., Biro, D., Bourlès, D. L., Doyle Boyd, M., Braun, D. R., Capelli, C., d’Oliveira Coelho, J., Habermann, J. M., Head, J. J., Keddadouche, K., Kupczik, K., Lebatard, A.-E., Lüdecke, T., Macôa, A., Martínez, F. I., Mathe, J., Mendes, C., Paulo, L. M., Pinto, M., Presnyakova, D., Püschel, T. A., Regala, F. T., Sier, M., Ferreira da Silva, M. J., Stalmans, M. and Carvalho, S.: The first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift, iScience, 26(9), doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.107644, 2023.

Leichliter, J. N., Lüdecke, T., Foreman, A. D., Bourgon, N., Duprey, N. N., Vonhof, H., Souksavatdy, V., Bacon, A.-M., Sigman, D. M., Tütken, T. and Martinez-Garcia, A.: Tooth enamel nitrogen isotope composition records trophic position: A tool for reconstructing food webs, Communications Biology, 6, doi:10.1038/s42003-023-04744-y, 2023.

Jaouen, K., Tütken, T., Bourgon, N., Lüdecke, T., Smith, G. M., Salazar-García, D. C., Hublin, J.-J., Villalba-Mouco, V. and Méjean, P.: Reply to Ben-Dor and Barkai: A low Zn isotope ratio is not equal to a low Zn content, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(6), doi: 10.1073/pnas.2218491120, 2023.

Kubat, J., Nava, A., Bondioli, L., Dean, M. C., Zanolli, C., Bourgon, N., Bacon, A.-M., Demeter, F., Peripoli, B., Albert, R., Lüdecke, T., Hertler, C., Mahoney, P., Kullmer, O., Schrenk, F. and Mueller, W.: Dietary strategies of Pleistocene Pongo sp. and Homo erectus on Java (Indonesia), Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7, doi:10.1038/s41559-022-01947-0, 2023.

Lüdecke, T., Leichliter, J. N., Aldeias, V., Bamford, M. K., Biro, D., Braun, D. R., Capelli, C., Cybulski, J. D., Duprey, N. N., Ferreira da Silva, M. J., Foreman, A. D., Habermann, J. M., Haug, G. H., Martínez, F. I., Mathe, J., Mulch, A., Sigman , D. M., Vonhof, H., Bobe, R., Carvalho, S. and Martinez-Garcia, A.: Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen stable isotopes in modern tooth enamel: A case study from Gorongosa National Park, central Mozambique, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, doi:10.3389/fevo.2022.958032, 2022.

Martinez-Garcia, A., Jung, J., Ai, X. E., Sigman, D. M., Auderset, A., Duprey, N. N., Foreman, A., Fripiat, F., Leichliter, J., Lüdecke, T., Moretti, S. and Wald, T.: Laboratory Assessment of the Impact of Chemical Oxidation, Mineral Dissolution, and Heating on the Nitrogen Isotopic Composition of Fossil-Bound Organic Matter, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(8), doi:10.1029/2022GC010396, 2022.

Kast, E. R., Griffiths, M. L., Kim, S. L., Rao, Z. C., Shimada, K., Becker, M. A., Maisch, H. M., Eagle, R. A., Clarke, C. A., Neumann, A. N., Karnes, M. E., Lüdecke, T., Leichliter, J. N., Martinez-Garcia, A., Akhtar, A. A., Wang, X. T., Haug, G. H. and Sigman, D. M.: Cenozoic megatooth sharks occupied extremely high trophic positions, Science Advances, 8(25), doi:10.1126/sciadv.abl6529, 2022.