Potential suitable areas of giant ground sloths dropped before its extinction in South America: The evidences from bioclimatic envelope modeling

Natureza a Conservacao

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-151

  Lima Ribeiro, Matheus Souza ^a   Varela, Sara ^b   Nogués Bravo, David ^c   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate changes; Last ice age; Late quaternary extinctions; Megafaunal extinctions; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875156530     PISSN: 16790073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4322/natcon.2012.022     Document Type: Article

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