Climate predictors of late quaternary extinctions

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2442-2449

  Nogués Bravo, David ^a,b   Ohlemüller, Ralf ^c   Batra, Persaram ^d   Araújo, Miguel B ^e  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Body size; Climate change; Climate footprint; Genetic diversity; Global extinctions; Late Quaternary; Phylogeography; Refugia; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BODY MASS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTINCTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAMMAL; QUATERNARY; REFUGIUM; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHY; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; MAMMALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77955301659     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01009.x     Document Type: Article

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