Effects of global warming on ancient mammalian communities and their environments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  DeSantis, Larisa R G ^a,b   Feranec, Robert S ^c   MacFadden, Bruce J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; OXYGEN; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL; GLACIAL PERIOD; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INTERGLACIAL; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TAXONOMY; TOOTH; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; DIET; ENAMEL; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SEASON;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; DENTAL ENAMEL; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSILS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; MAMMALS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEASONS;

EID: 66749173977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005750     Document Type: Article

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