Habitat fragmentation and the extinction of mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius, Proboscidea, Mammalia): Arguments for a causal relationship

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 259, 2007, Pages 279-286

  Reumer, Jelle W F ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extinction; Habitat fragmentation; Holocene; Overkill hypothesis; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HOLOCENE; MAMMOTH; PLEISTOCENE; PREDATION;

EURASIA;

COELODONTA; MAMMALIA; MAMMUTHUS; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS; PROBOSCIDEA (MAMMAL);

EID: 38349135375     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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