Quaternary extinctions and their link to climate change

Saving a Million Species: Extinction Risk from Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 179-198

  Brook, Barry W ^a   Barnosky, Anthony D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84879177748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.5822/978-1-61091-182-5_11     Document Type: Chapter

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