Linking top-down forces to the pleistocene megafaunal extinctions

BioScience

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 516-526

  Ripple, William J ^a   Van Valkenburgh, Blaire ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

extinctions; humans; large carnivores; megafauna; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77954586389     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2010.60.7.7     Document Type: Article

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