Mammalian response to global warming on varied temporal scales

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 354-368

  Barnosky, Anthony D ^a   Hadly, Elizabeth A ^b   Bell, Christopher J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global warming; Holocene; Mammals; Miocene; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; MAMMAL; PALEOECOLOGY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037903150     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2003)084<0354:MRTGWO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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