Abrupt vegetation change after the Late Quaternary megafaunal extinction in southeastern Australia

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 627-631

  Lopes Dos Santos, Raquel A ^a   De Deckker, Patrick ^b   Hopmans, Ellen C ^a   Magee, John W ^b   Mets, Anchelique ^a   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMARKER; BIOMASS BURNING; EXTINCTION; FAUNA; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; QUATERNARY; STABLE ISOTOPE; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIA;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84881337260     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1856     Document Type: Article

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