Small mammal diversity loss in response to late-Pleistocene climatic change

Nature

Volumn 465, Issue 7299, 2010, Pages 771-774

  Blois, Jessica L ^a,c   McGuire, Jenny L ^b   Hadly, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DOMINANCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MASS EXTINCTION; NATIVE SPECIES; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRANSITION ZONE; WEED;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLOBAL CHANGE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GLOBAL WARMING; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MAMMALS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77953477997     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09077     Document Type: Article

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