Local scale, proxy evidence for the presence of closed canopy forest in North-western Borneo in the late Pleistocene: Bones of Strategy I bats from the archaeological record of the Great Cave of Niah, Sarawak

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 331-332, Issue , 2012, Pages 136-149

  Stimpson, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bats; Borneo; Forest; Last Glacial Period; Niah; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BAT; BONE; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CHRONOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LAST GLACIAL; MORPHOLOGY; STAND STRUCTURE; TAPHONOMY; TIME SERIES;

BORNEO; EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; NIAH; SARAWAK;

HIPPOSIDEROS;

EID: 84859813715     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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