Quantitative global analysis of the role of climate and people in explaining late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4527-4531

  Prescott, Graham W ^a   Williams, David R ^a   Balmford, Andrew ^a   Green, Rhys E ^a,b   Manica, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; FAUNA; HUMAN; LAND BIOME; LATE QUATERNARY; MASS EXTINCTION; MIGRATION; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PALAEARCTIC EURASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84863353622     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113875109     Document Type: Article

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