Response of Italian Late Neogene and Quaternary large land mammals to climatic and vegetation change

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 256, 2006, Pages 315-320

  Mazza, Paul P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Italy; Land mammals; Late Neogene to Quaternary

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MAMMAL; NEOGENE; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION COVER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 33947219974     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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