Range dynamics of the reindeer in Europe during the last 25,000 years

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 298-306

  Sommer, Robert S ^a   Kalbe, Johannes ^b   Ekström, Jonas ^c   Benecke, Norbert ^d   Liljegren, Ronnie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental change; Extinction; Global change; Late Quaternary; Pleistocene Holocene transition; Rangifer tarandus; Reindeer

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEER; EXTINCTION; HOLOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

SCANDINAVIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

CAPREOLUS; CERVUS ELAPHUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 84892497879     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12193     Document Type: Article

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