The Iberian Peninsula - corridor or cul-de-sac? Mammalian faunal change and possible routes of dispersal in the last 2 million years

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 23-24, 2008, Pages 2136-2144

  O'Regan, Hannah J ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MAMMALS;

EUROPEANS; FAUNAL CHANGES; FOSSIL RECORDS; GIBRALTAR STRAITS; GLACIAL CYCLES; HOMININS; IBERIAN PENINSULAS; MOUNTAIN RANGES; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL; PYRENEES; SUMMER DROUGHTS; TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS;

ANIMALS;

DISPERSAL; FAUNA; FELID; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; MAMMAL; NEANDERTHAL; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; PYRENEES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

ANIMALIA; COELODONTA ANTIQUITATIS; LYNX; MAMMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 55949085980     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.08.007     Document Type: Article

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