Rapid body size decline in Alaskan Pleistocene horses before extinction

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6963, 2003, Pages 169-171

  Guthrie, R Dale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; VEGETATION;

FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIOCARBON DATING;

BIODIVERSITY;

CARBON 14;

BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; MAMMAL; PLEISTOCENE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; FOSSIL; HORSE; INDIVIDUALITY; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY CONSTITUTION; CLIMATE; FOSSILS; HORSES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345304856     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02098     Document Type: Article

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