Responses of Quaternary rainforest vertebrates to climate change in Australia

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 264, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 317-331

  Hocknull, Scott A ^a   Zhao, Jian xin ^b   Feng, Yue xing ^b   Webb, Gregory E ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; megafauna; palaeoclimate; Quaternary rainforest; U Th dating

Indexed keywords

ARID-ADAPTED FAUNA; MESIC-ADAPTED FAUNA; QUATERNARY RAINFOREST; XERIC-ADAPTED FAUNA;

ARID REGIONS; AUSTRALIA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; FORESTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFOREST; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATES; FORESTRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 36048949001     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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