Ice-age megafauna in Arctic Alaska: Extinction, invasion, survival

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 70, Issue , 2013, Pages 91-108

  Mann, Daniel H ^a   Groves, Pamela ^a   Kunz, Michael L ^b   Reanier, Richard E ^c   Gaglioti, Benjamin V ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^c Reanier and Associates Inc   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Arctic; Bones; Climate change; Extinction; Horse; Ice age; Megafauna; Peat; Pleistocene; Steppe bison; Woolly mammoth

Indexed keywords

ALASKA; ARCTIC; HORSE; ICE AGE; MEGAFAUNA; PLEISTOCENE; STEPPE BISON; WOOLLY MAMMOTHS;

ANIMALS; BONE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LIGHT EXTINCTION; MOISTURE; PEAT; SOILS;

LOADING;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMASS; BONE; CLIMATE VARIATION; MAMMAL; MASS EXTINCTION; MOISTURE CONTENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEONTOLOGY; PALUDIFICATION; PEAT; PLEISTOCENE; SOIL HORIZON; STEPPE; SURVIVAL;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BISON; BISON PRISCUS; CANIDAE; EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS; OVIBOS MOSCHATUS MOSCHATUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 84877134537     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.03.015     Document Type: Article

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