Megafauna biomass tradeoff as a driver of Quaternary and future extinctions

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

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 11543-11548

  Barnosky, Anthony D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological threshold; Mammal; Paleoecology; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUNTING; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOSSIL; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 50049098290     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801918105     Document Type: Article

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