Assessing the causes of late pleistocene extinctions on the continents

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5693, 2004, Pages 70-75

  Barnosky, Anthony D ^a   Koch, Paul L ^b   Feranec, Robert S ^a   Wing, Scott L ^c   Shabel, Alan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ARCHEOLOGY; CONTINENTS; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE EXTINCTIONS;

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUNTING; MEGAFAUNA; PLEISTOCENE;

ARCHEOLOGY; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANIMAL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PREDATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TIME;

EID: 6044243344     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101476     Document Type: Review

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