Responses of non-volant mammals to late quaternary climatic changes in the Wet Tropics region of north-eastern Australia

Wildlife Research

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 493-511

  Winter, J W ^a  

^a Massey Creek Ecology Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGE; MAMMAL; RAINFOREST; SCLEROPHYLL FOREST;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030665819     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR96035     Document Type: Article

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