Global human impacts or climate change?: explaining the Sooty Shearwater decline at the Minard site, Washington State, USA

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1087-1097

  Bovy, Kristine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Avifaunas; Climate change; Human impacts; Muttonbirding; Sooty Shearwaters; Washington coast; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION DECLINE; SEABIRD;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

PROCELLARIIDAE; PUFFINUS GRISEUS;

EID: 33947523709     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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