Timing and dynamics of Late Pleistocene mammal extinctions in southwestern Australia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 51, 2010, Pages 22157-22162

  Prideaux, Gavin J ^a   Gully, Grant A ^a   Couzens, Aidan M C ^b   Ayliffe, Linda K ^c   Jankowski, Nathan R ^d   Jacobs, Zenobia ^d   Roberts, Richard G ^d   Hellstrom, John C ^e   Gagan, Michael K ^c   Hatcher, Lindsay M ^f  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f Augusta Margaret River Tourism Association   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fire history; Human hunting; Megafauna; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAUNA; KANGAROO; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; UPPER PLEISTOCENE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSILS; HUMANS; MAMMALS;

MAMMALIA; THYLACINUS CYNOCEPHALUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78650676068     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011073107     Document Type: Article

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