New carbon dates link climatic change with human colonization and Pleistocene extinctions

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7090, 2006, Pages 207-209

  Guthrie, R Dale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASES; ECOLOGY; FOSSIL FUELS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

ECOLOGICAL REPLACEMENT; ECOLOGICAL RESTRUCTURING; HUMAN COLONIZATION; PLEISTOCENE EXTINCTIONS;

CARBON;

CARBON 14;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ARTICLE; BUFFALO; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORAGE; FOSSIL; HOLOCENE; MOOSE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

ALASKA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUKON TERRITORY;

ALCES ALCES; BISON; BISON BISON; BISON PRISCUS; CERVUS CANADENSIS; EQUUS CABALLUS; EQUUS FERUS; MAMMALIA; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 33646588343     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04604     Document Type: Article

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