Response of bushy-tailed woodrats (Neotoma cinerea) to late Quaternary climatic change in the Colorado Plateau

Quaternary Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-11

  Smith, Felisa A ^a   Betancourt, Julio L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FAUNA; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

COLORADO PLATEAU; UNITED STATES;

NEOTOMA CINEREA;

EID: 0032415681     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1998.1982     Document Type: Article

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