Explaining the Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions: Models, chronologies, and assumptions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 99, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 14624-14627

  Brook, Barry W ^a   Bowman, David M J S ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUNTING; AUSTRALIA; CHRONOLOGY; FAUNA; GEOLOGY; HUMAN; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEATH; FOSSILS; HUMANS; PALEONTOLOGY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TIME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037069376     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.232126899     Document Type: Review

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