Mammoth tracks indicate a declining Late Pleistocene population in southwestern Alberta, Canada

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 10-11, 2005, Pages 1253-1259

  McNeil, Paul ^a   Hills, L V ^a   Kooyman, B ^a   Tolman, Shayne M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Box 1146 ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEDIMENTS;

FOSSIL MAMMOTH; MEGAFAUNA; PLEISTOCENE;

BIODIVERSITY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; EXTINCTION; FOOTPRINT; PLEISTOCENE;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

BOVIDAE; ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 14944379090     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.08.019     Document Type: Article

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