Ruminant diets and the Miocene extinction of European great apes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1697, 2010, Pages 3105-3112

  Merceron, Gildas ^a   Kaiser, Thomas M ^b   Kostopoulos, Dimitris S ^c   Schulz, Ellen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Environmental dynamics; Hominoids; Neogene; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXTINCTION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GRAZING; HABITAT LOSS; HOMINID; MIOCENE; MORTALITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RUMINANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EUROPE;

BOVIDAE; HOMINIDAE; HOMO; PRIMATES; UNGULATA;

EID: 77956896859     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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