More than three million years of community evolution. The temporal and geographical resolution of the Plio-Pleistocene Western Eurasia mammal faunas

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 276, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 15-23

  Raia, P ^a   Carotenuto, F ^a   Meloro, C ^a,c   Piras, P ^b   Barbera, C ^a   Kotsakis, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Community evolution; Large mammals; PCOM; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EURASIA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 64949167976     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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