Updating Martin's global extinction model

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 27-28, 2008, Pages 2522-2529

  Gillespie, Richard ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA; GLOBAL MODELS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MEGAFAUNA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA; WEAK LINKS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; ISLAND; PLEISTOCENE; REFUGIUM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 56949091230     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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