The forgotten megafauna

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5923, 2009, Pages 42-43

  Hansen, Dennis M ^a   Galetti, Mauro ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; EXTINCTION; SEED DISPERSAL; VERTEBRATE;

BODY MASS; ECOSYSTEM; MACROFAUNA; MADAGASCAR; MAMMAL; MEGAFAUNA; NONHUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; VERTEBRATE; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED;

CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; SEEDS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 64249123051     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172393     Document Type: Short Survey

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