Antlers on the Arctic Refuge: Capturing multi-generational patterns of calving ground use from bones on the landscape

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1759, 2013, Pages

  Miller, Joshua H ^a,b,c,d   Druckenmiller, Patrick ^c   Bahn, Volker ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic national wildlife refuge; Conservation palaeobiology; Ecological baselines; Historical ecology; Porcupine caribou herd; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BONE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEER; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD; LATITUDE; PALEOBIOLOGY; REFUGE; TAPHONOMY;

ALASKA; ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878241117     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0275     Document Type: Article

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