Were the Late Pleistocene climatic changes responsible for the disappearance of the European spotted hyena populations? Hindcasting a species geographic distribution across time

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 17-18, 2010, Pages 2027-2035

  Varela, Sara ^a   Lobo, Jorge M ^a   Rodríguez, Jesús ^b   Batra, Persaram ^c  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^c MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSS TIME; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC SCENARIOS; ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS; ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HINDCASTING; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE PLEISTOCENE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; FELID; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HINDCASTING; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST GLACIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PREY AVAILABILITY; TOLERANCE;

NORTHERN EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CROCUTA CROCUTA;

EID: 77955274419     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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