Small-mammal diversity in spain during the late pleistocene to early holocene: Climate, landscape, and human impact

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 267-270

  López García, Juan Manuel ^a,b   Blain, Hugues Alexandre ^a,b   Morales, Juan Ignacio ^a,b   Lorenzo, Carlos ^a,b   Bañuls Cardona, Sandra ^a,b   Cuenca Bescós, Gloria ^c  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS; HEINRICH EVENTS; HOLOCENES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN IMPACT; HUMAN INFLUENCES; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; SMALL MAMMALS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

GEOLOGY;

MAMMALS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NEOLITHIC; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SPAIN;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84873474851     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33744.1     Document Type: Article

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