Of mice, mastodons and men: Human-mediated extinctions on four continents

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 339-358

  Lyons, S Kathleen ^a,b   Smith, Felisa A ^a   Brown, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size distributions; Climate change; Human hunting; Late Pleistocene; Megafaunal extinction; Size biased extinction

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

EID: 2642521259     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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