The late Pleistocene environment of the Eastern West Beringia based on the principal section at the Main River, Chukotka

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 17-18, 2011, Pages 2091-2106

  Kuzmina, Svetlana A ^a,b   Sher, Andrei V ^c   Edwards, Mary E ^d,e   Haile, James ^f   Yan, Evgeny V ^b   Kotov, Anatoly V ^g   Willerslev, Eske ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g Chukotsky Branch of the North East Complex Science and Research Institute   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERING SEA; COLD CONDITIONS; EASTERN EDGE; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; LAND BRIDGES; LATE PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE;

LANDFORMS;

ANIMALS;

BERINGIA; COEVOLUTION; MIGRATORY POPULATION; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; STEPPE; THERMOPHILY; TUNDRA;

CHUKCHI; MAYN RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 79961210823     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.03.019     Document Type: Article

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