Assessing prey competition in fossil carnivore communities - a scenario for prey competition and its evolutionary consequences for tigers in Pleistocene Java

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 257, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 67-80

  Hertler, Christine ^a   Volmer, Rebekka ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body mass; Canidae; Felidae; Hyaenidae; Java; Pleistocene; Prey competition

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BODY MASS; CANID; CARNIVORE; CHRONOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FELID; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HOMINID; PLEISTOCENE;

CANIDAE; CARNIVORA; CUON; CUON ALPINUS; FELIDAE; HOMO ERECTUS; HYAENA; HYAENIDAE; PANTHERA; PANTHERA PARDUS; PANTHERA TIGRIS; STEGODON;

EID: 37049002395     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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