Diego P Fernandez

Biographic Data

ID3607167
NAMEDiego P Fernandez
GIVEN NAMESDiego P
FAMILY NAMEFernandez
SIGNATUREFERNÁNDEZ D P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Utah
ORCID0000-0002-4727-5031
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS39
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Migratory behavior in the enigmatic Late Pleistocene bovid Rusingoryx atopocranion

    Open AccessKaedan O’brien, Katya Podkovyroff et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Environmental…2023

    For many animals, migration is an important strategy for navigating seasonal bottlenecks in resource availability. In the savannas of eastern Africa, herds of grazing animals, including blue wildebeest ( Connochaetes taurinus ), Thomson's gazelle ( Eudorcas thomsonii ), and plains zebra ( Equus quagga ), travel hundreds of kilometers annually tracking suitable forage and water. However, we know nearly nothing about migration among the extinct spe…

  • Strontium Isotope Analysis, the Neonatal Line, and Archaeological Caribou Herd Identity in Northwest Alaska

    Open AccessNathan I Harmston, Patrick L Tomco et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2023

    Rangifer tarandus is a keystone species in the Arctic and has shaped human land use in this region for tens of thousands of years. The migratory ecotype requires large landscapes and long migrations between summer and winter ranges to meet their nutritional needs. The extent to which these ranges have remained the same has been controversial and uncertain. Archaeological caribou herd identity is usually ascribed based on modern caribou herd distr…

  • Water Provenance at the Old River Bed Inland Delta and Ground Water Flow from the Sevier Basin of Central Utah during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition

    Open AccessChristopher D Bradbury, Paul W Jewell et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2021

    To ascertain the provenance of water reaching wetlands in an area sustaining a population of Pleistocene–Holocene foragers, 87-strontium/86-strontium isotopic ratios ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) of mollusks from channels of the Old River Bed inland delta of central Utah were measured. Potential provenances examined included overflow from Pleistocene–Holocene Lake Gunnison, ground water flow from the Sevier basin, ground water discharge from piedmont aquifers …

  • Using strontium isotopes to trace dust from a drying Great Salt Lake to adjacent urban areas and mountain snowpack

    Open AccessGreg Carling, Diego P Fernandez et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    With the desiccation of saline lakes around the globe, it is increasingly important to quantify the impacts of playa dust on downwind urban areas and mountain snowpack. In this study, we used 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios of carbonate minerals to trace dust from playas to urban areas and mountain snowpack. We focused on dust contributions from Great Salt Lake (GSL), in northern Utah, USA, which recently reached historic lows in water levels exposing large …

  • Detecting riparian habitat preferences in “savanna” chimpanzees and associated Fauna with strontium isotope ratios

    Open AccessMarian I Hamilton, Sherry V Nelson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2019Cited by: 3References: 70

    OBJECTIVES: Riparian or gallery forests are critical habitats for numerous plants and animals today. Paleoanthropologically, reliance on such habitats informs behavioral and ecological reconstructions; for example, gallery forest habitats likely played a critical role in the transition from ape to hominin in the early Pliocene and may represent a preferred habitat for the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans. Direct indicators for galle…

  • Geochemical composition of source obsidians from Kenya

    Open AccessFrancis H Brown, Barbara P Nash et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2013Cited by: 36References: 3