Ackermans Nicole L
Clinic for Zoo Animals, Exotic Pets and Wildlife, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
PeerJ. 2020 Feb 13;8:e8519. doi: 10.7717/peerj.8519. eCollection 2020.
Published mesowear data was reviewed from the year 2000 to November 2019 (211 publications, 707 species, 1,396 data points). Mesowear is a widely applied tooth wear technique that can be used to infer a herbivore's diet by scoring the height and sharpness of molar tooth cusps with the naked eye. Established as a fast and efficient tool for paleodiet reconstruction, the technique has seen multiple adaptations, simplifications, and extensions since its establishment, which have become complex to follow. The present study reviews all successive changes and adaptations to the mesowear technique in detail, providing a template for the application of each technique to the research question at hand. In addition, the array of species to which mesowear has been applied, along with the equivalent recorded diets have been compiled here in a large dataset. This review provides an insight into the metrics related to mesowear publication since its establishment. The large dataset overviews whether the species to which the various techniques of mesowear are applied are extant or extinct, their phylogenetic classification, their assigned diets and diet stability between studies, as a resource for future research on the topic.
回顾了2000年至2019年11月发表的中磨损数据（211篇出版物，707个物种，1396个数据点）。中磨损是一种广泛应用的牙齿磨损技术，可通过肉眼对臼齿尖的高度和锐度进行评分来推断食草动物的饮食。该技术作为古饮食重建的一种快速有效的工具，自建立以来经历了多次调整、简化和扩展，变得难以遵循。本研究详细回顾了中磨损技术的所有后续变化和调整，为将每种技术应用于手头的研究问题提供了一个模板。此外，已将应用中磨损技术的一系列物种以及相应记录的饮食汇编成一个大型数据集。本综述提供了自中磨损技术建立以来与中磨损出版物相关指标的见解。这个大型数据集概述了应用中磨损各种技术的物种是现存的还是已灭绝的，它们的系统发育分类，它们指定的饮食以及不同研究之间的饮食稳定性，作为该主题未来研究的资源。
