American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human colonization and terminal Pleistocene climate change

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

Volumn 111, Issue 52, 2014, Pages 18460-18465

  Zazula, Grant D ^a   MacPhee, Ross D E ^b   Metcalfe, Jessica Z ^c   Reyes, Alberto V ^d   Brock, Fiona ^e   Druckenmiller, Patrick S ^f,g   Groves, Pamela ^g   Harington, C Richard ^h   Hodgins, Gregory W L ⁱ   Kunz, Michael L ^g   J Longstaffe, Fred ^j   Mann, Daniel H ^g   McDonald, H Gregory ^k   Nalawade Chavan, Shweta ^e   Southon, John R ^l  

^a Government of Yukon   (Canada)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^h CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

ⁱ University of Arizona   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^k NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Beringia; Extinctions; Megafauna; Pleistocene; Radiocarbon

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBON 14;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTINENTAL ICE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; ICE SHEET; INFORMATION CENTER; INTERGLACIAL; LATITUDE; MASTODON; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; STEPPE; TAIGA; ULTRAFILTRATION; ANIMAL; FOREST; FOSSIL; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

MAMMUT AMERICANUM;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTS; FOSSILS; HUMANS; MASTODONS;

EID: 84924302009     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1416072111     Document Type: Article

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