Effects of Pleistocene environmental changes on the distribution and community structure of the mammalian fauna of Mexico

Quaternary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 464-473

  Ceballos, Gerardo ^a   Arroyo Cabrales, Joaquín ^b   Ponce, Eduardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGÍA E HISTORIA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Biogeographic corridors; Extinctions; Extralimital distributions; Mexico; Pleistocene mammals; Pleistocene refugia

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTINCTION; FAUNA; MAMMAL; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; REFUGIUM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES INVENTORY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

BOVIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77952290510     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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