Human arrival scenarios have a strong influence on interpretations of the late Quaternary extinctions

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

Volumn 109, Issue 37, 2012, Pages

  Lima Ribeiro, Matheus S ^a   Nogués Bravo, David ^b   Marske, Katharine A ^b   Fernandez, Fernando A S ^c   Araujo, Bernardo ^c   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN; LATE QUATERNARY; LATE QUATERNARY MASS EXTINCTION; LETTER; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84866302617     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206920109     Document Type: Letter

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