What can the data on late survival of Australian megafauna tell us about the cause of their extinction?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 20-21, 2005, Pages 2167-2172

  Johnson, Christopher N ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES; AUSTRALIAN MEGAFAUNA; CLIMATE-CHANE MODELS; MEGAFAUNA SPECIES;

BIODIVERSITY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION; PLEISTOCENE; SURVIVAL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24944484155     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.06.006     Document Type: Article

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