The nature and timing of faunal change in the British Isles across the Pleistocene/Holocene transition

Holocene

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 372-376

  Coard, R ^a   Chamberlain, A T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Early Holocene; Lynx; Reindeer; Southern Ireland; Southwest Britain; Vertebrate fauna; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FAUNA; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

COLEOPTERA; LYNX; MAMMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032963323     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968399672435429     Document Type: Article

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