Last straw versus Blitzkrieg overkill: Climate-driven changes in the Arctic Siberian mammoth population and the Late Pleistocene extinction problem

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 17-18, 2011, Pages 2309-2328

  Nikolskiy, P A ^a   Sulerzhitsky, L D ^a   Pitulko, V V ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; EXTINCTION PROBLEM; EXTINCTION TIME; HOLOCENES; HUMAN POPULATION; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MAJOR FACTORS; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATES; SIBERIA; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOLARCTIC REGION; HOLOCENE; MAMMOTH; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; REFUGIUM;

ARCTIC OCEAN; SIBERIA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 79961208852     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.10.017     Document Type: Article

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