Ghosts of Yellowstone: Multi-decadal histories of wildlife populations captured by bones on a modern landscape

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Miller, Joshua H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOME; BONE EXAMINATION; BUFFALO; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXTINCT SPECIES; FIRE; HORSE; LANDSCAPE; MOOSE; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES INVASION; SPECIES REINTRODUCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; UNGULATE; UNITED STATES; VERTEBRATE; WILDLIFE; WOLF; ANIMAL; BONE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLE SIZE; WILD ANIMAL;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; MAMMALIA; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BONE AND BONES; CLIMATE; DATA COLLECTION; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLE SIZE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953130590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018057     Document Type: Article

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