Constraint envelope analyses of macroecological patterns reveal climatic effects on Pleistocene mammal extinctions

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 260-269

  Lima Ribeiro, Matheus S ^a   Hortal, Joaquín ^b   Varela, Sara ^c   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Body size; Climate changes; Extinction risk; Habitat tracking; Late Quaternary extinctions; North America; Quantile regression; Range shift; Species sorting; Triangular shaped envelopes

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ECOSYSTEMS; MAMMALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BODY SIZES; EXTINCTION RISKS; LATE QUATERNARY; NORTH AMERICA; QUANTILE REGRESSION; RANGE SHIFTS; TRIANGULAR-SHAPED ENVELOPES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BODY SIZE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTINCTION RISK; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HABITAT LOSS; MACROECOLOGY; MAMMAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RANGE SIZE;

NORTH AMERICA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84904046167     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2014.02.003     Document Type: Article

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