Environmental correlates of the cercopithecoid radiations

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 78, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 344-364

  Elton, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Cercopithecids; Environmental change; Miocene; Old World monkeys; Omo Turkana Basin; Plio Pleistocene; South Africa

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CLIMATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTORY; OMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; OMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TURKEY;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECOIDEA;

EID: 34548663147     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000105149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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