Holocene elephant seal distribution implies warmer-than-present climate in the Ross Sea

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 27, 2006, Pages 10213-10217

  Hall, B L ^a   Hoelzel, A R ^b   Baroni, C ^c   Denton, G H ^a   Le Boeuf, B J ^d   Overturf, B ^a   Topf A L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Southern elephant seals

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; MIROUNGA LEONINA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEA ICE; SEAL; WARMING;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEALS, EARLESS; SPHENISCIDAE; TEMPERATURE;

MIROUNGA; MIROUNGA LEONINA;

EID: 33745927884     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0604002103     Document Type: Article

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