Extinct mammalian biodiversity of the ancient New World tropics

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 157-165

  MacFadden, Bruce J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMAL;

ISTHMIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33644659948     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2005.12.003     Document Type: Review

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