Quantitative palaeoclimatic inference based on terrestrial mammal faunas

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-56

  Hernández Fernández, Manuel ^a,b,c   Peláez Campomanes, Pablo ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas   (Spain)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodimatology; Europe; Mammalia; Mammalian communities; Methodology; Multiple regression analysis; Palaeoclimatology; Pleistocene; Rodentia

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 12444306407     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2004.00125.x     Document Type: Review

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