Lack of chronological support for stepwise prehuman extinctions of Australian megafauna

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 36, 2013, Pages

  Brook, Barry W ^a   Bradshaw, Corey J A ^a   Cooper, Alan ^a   Johnson, Christopher N ^b   Worthy, Trevor H ^c   Bird, Michael ^d   Gillespie, Richard ^e   Roberts, Richard G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL;

AUSTRALIA; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FAUNA; FOSSIL; HUMAN; INTERGLACIAL; LETTER; MEGAFAUNA; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; UNCERTAINTY; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84883444004     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309226110     Document Type: Letter

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