A quantitative assessment of the range shifts of Pleistocene mammals

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 385-402

  Lyons, S Kathleen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community structure; Glaciation; Mammals; Nonanalog communities; Pleistocene; Range shifts; Range size

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MAMMAL; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038579342     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2003)084<0385:AQAOTR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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