The legacy of the Pleistocene megafauna extinctions on nutrient availability in Amazonia

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 761-764

  Doughty, Christopher E ^a   Wolf, Adam ^b   Malhi, Yadvinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; EXTINCTION; FLOODPLAIN; LAND SURFACE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLEISTOCENE; SEED DISPERSAL;

AMAZONIA; AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84883404049     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1895     Document Type: Article

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