Range sizes and shifts of North American Pleistocene mammals are not consistent with a climatic explanation for extinction

World Archaeology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-55

  Grund, Brigid S ^a   Surovell, Todd A ^a   Lyons, S Kathleen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; GIS; North America; overkill; Pleistocene extinction; range shift; range size

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTINCTION; GIS; HOLOCENE; MAMMAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; RANGE SIZE; TAXONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84858133338     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2012.648427     Document Type: Article

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