Insights on the climatic constraints on the beetle fauna of Coastal Alaska, U.S.A., Derived from the mutual climatic range method of paleoclimate reconstruction

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 94-98

  Elias, Scott A ^a   Andrews, John T ^a   Anderson, Katherine H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; FAUNA; INSECT; PALEOCLIMATE;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 0032982825     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1552626     Document Type: Article

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