Ecological correlates of range shifts of late pleistocene mammals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1558, 2010, Pages 3681-3693

  Lyons, S Kathleen ^a   Wagner, Peter J ^a   Dzikiewicz, Katherine ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Climate change; Ecological traits; Late pleistocene mammals; Life history traits; Range shifts

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAMMAL; PLEISTOCENE; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

NORTH AMERICA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 78650339687     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0263     Document Type: Article

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