Size and shape stasis in late Pleistocene mammals and birds from Rancho La Brea during the Last Glacial-Interglacial cycle

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 56, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-10

  Prothero, Donald R ^a   Syverson, Valerie J ^b   Raymond, Kristina R ^c   Madan, Meena ^d   Molina, Sarah ^e   Fragomeni, Ashley ^a,d   DeSantis, Sylvana ^e   Sutyagina, Anastasiya ^e   Gage, Gina L ^f  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries   (United States)

^e OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Evolution; La Brea; Punctuated equilibrium; Stasis; Tar pits

Indexed keywords

BALD EAGLES; BODY SIZES; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CYCLE; DIRECTIONAL CHANGES; EVOLUTION; GLACIAL INTERGLACIAL TRANSITION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LOS ANGELES; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; NON-PARAMETRIC; PLEISTOCENE; PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM; RANDOM WALK; SELECTIVE PRESSURE; SIZE AND SHAPE; SMALL MAMMALS; STABILIZING SELECTION; STASIS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MAMMALS; PLANTS (BOTANY); TAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BERGMANN RULE; BIRD; BODY SHAPE; BODY SIZE; CHAPARRAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; RANCHO LA BREA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BISON; CAMELIDAE; CANIDAE; EQUIDAE; FALCONIDAE; GYMNOGYPS; HALIAEETUS LEUCOCEPHALUS; JUNIPERUS; MAMMALIA; SLOTHS; SMILODON FATALIS; TILLANDSIA LINEATISPICA;

EID: 84866789655     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.08.015     Document Type: Review

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