Quantifying the extent of north american mammal extinction relative to the pre-anthropogenic baseline

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Carrasco, Marc A ^a   Barnosky, Anthony D ^a   Graham, Russell W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOSSIL ANIMAL; HOLOCENE; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); MAMMAL; NORTH AMERICA; PALEOECOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAMMALS; NORTH AMERICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77949538419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008331     Document Type: Article

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