Reconstructing habitats in central Amazonia using megafauna, sedimentology, radiocarbon, and isotope analyses

Quaternary Research

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 289-300

  de Fátima Rossetti, Dilce ^a   de Toledo, Peter Mann ^a   Moraes Santos, Heloísa Maria ^a   de Araújo Santos Jr , Antônio Emídio ^b  

^a MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Landscape evolution; Mammals; Paleontology; Pleistocene; Radiocarbon dating; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOFLOOD; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SAVANNA; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EDENTATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 2342624691     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2004.02.010     Document Type: Article

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