Ecological consequences of early Late Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Africa

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

Volumn 104, Issue 42, 2007, Pages 16422-16427

  Cohen, Andrew S ^a   Stone, Jeffery R ^b   Beuning, Kristina R M ^c   Park, Lisa E ^d   Reinthal, Peter N ^a   Dettman, David ^a   Scholz, Christopher A ^e   Johnson, Thomas C ^f   King, John W ^g   Talbot, Michael R ^h   Brown, Erik T ^f   Ivory, Sarah J ^c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^e SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cichlid evolution; Lake Malawi; Out of Africa hypothesis; Paleoclimate; Paleolimnology

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; DROUGHT; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HUMAN; LAKE; NONHUMAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TROPICS;

AFRICA; AIR CONDITIONING; ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; FISHES; FOSSILS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; NATURAL DISASTERS; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

CICHLIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 36749048665     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0703873104     Document Type: Article

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