Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

Nature

Volumn 479, Issue 7373, 2011, Pages 359-364

  Lorenzen, Eline D ^a   Nogués Bravo, David ^a   Orlando, Ludovic ^a   Weinstock, Jaco ^a   Binladen, Jonas ^a   Marske, Katharine A ^a   Ugan, Andrew ^b,an,ao   Borregaard, Michael K ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^a   Nielsen, Rasmus ^a,c   Ho, Simon Y W ^d   Goebel, Ted ^e   Graf, Kelly E ^e   Byers, David ^f   Stenderup, Jesper T ^a   Rasmussen, Morten ^a   Campos, Paula F ^a   Leonard, Jennifer A ^g,h   Koepfli, Klaus Peter ^i,j   Froese, Duane ^k   Zazula, Grant ^l   Stafford Jr , Thomas W ^a,m   Aaris Sørensen, Kim ^a   Batra, Persaram ⁿ   Haywood, Alan M ^o   Singarayer, Joy S ^p   Valdes, Paul J ^p   Boeskorov, Gennady ^q   Burns, James A ^r,s   Davydov, Sergey P ^t   Haile, James ^a   Jenkins, Dennis L ^u   Kosintsev, Pavel ^v   Kuznetsova, Tatyana ^w   Lai, Xulong ^x   Martin, Larry D ^y   McDonald, H Gregory ^z   Mol, Dick ^aa   Meldgaard, Morten ^a   Munch, Kasper ^ab   Stephan, Elisabeth ^ac   Sablin, Mikhail ^ad   Sommer, Robert S ^ae   Sipko, Taras ^af   Scott, Eric ^ag   Suchard, Marc A ^ah,ai   Tikhonov, Alexei ^ad   Willerslev, Rane ^aj   Wayne, Robert K ⁱ   Cooper, Alan ^ak   Hofreiter, Michael ^al   Sher, Andrei ^af   Shapiro, Beth ^am   Rahbek, Carsten ^a   Willerslev, Eske ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^l Government of Yukon   (Canada)

^m Stafford Research Inc   (United States)

ⁿ MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^q DIAMOND AND PRECIOUS METAL GEOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^r ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM   (Canada)

^s Manitoba Museum   (Canada)

^t PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^u UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^v INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^w MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^x CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^y UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^z NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^aa Natural History Museum   (Netherlands)

^ab AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^ac Landesamt für Denkmalpflege ^*  (Germany)

^ad ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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

^ag San Bernardino County Museum   (United States)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^al UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^am PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^an UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^ao Museo de Historia Natural de San Rafael   (Argentina)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MAMMAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY;

ARTICLE; BISON PRISCUS; BUFFALO; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COELODONTA ANTIQUITATIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA DETERMINATION; EQUUS CABALLUS; FAUNA; FOSSIL; HABITAT; HORSE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MAMMOTH; NONHUMAN; OVIBOS MOSCHATUS; PALEOLITHIC; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUATERNARY (PERIOD); REINDEER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOTA; BISON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HORSES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MAMMOTHS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REINDEER; SIBERIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

BISON; BISON PRISCUS; COELODONTA ANTIQUITATIS; EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 81555200041     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10574     Document Type: Article

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