Fifty millennia of catastrophic extinctions after human contact

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 395-401

  Burney, David A ^a   Flannery, Timothy F ^b  

^a NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY;

EID: 20444479464     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2005.04.022     Document Type: Review

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