Fossils reject climate change as the cause of extinction of Caribbean bats

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Soto Centeno, J Angel ^a,b   Steadman, David W ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BAT; CARIBBEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSIL; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; CARIBBEAN REGION; CHIROPTERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS;

EID: 84923094752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07971     Document Type: Article

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