Palaeozoology of Palawan Island, Philippines

Quaternary International

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 142-158

  Piper, Philip J ^a,c   Ochoa, Janine ^a   Robles, Emil C ^a   Lewis, Helen ^b   Paz, Victor ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c National Museum of the Philippines   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Extinctions; Holocene; Mammal biodiversity; Palaeozoology; Palawan Island; Terminal Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BONE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXCAVATION; EXTINCTION; HOLOCENE; MAMMAL; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY; ZOOLOGY;

MIMAROPA; PALAWAN [MIMAROPA]; PALAWAN [PALAWAN (PRV)]; PHILIPPINES;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79951577641     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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