Human population dynamics in Europe over the Last Glacial Maximum

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

Volumn 112, Issue 27, 2015, Pages 8232-8237

  Tallavaara, Miikka ^a   Luoto, Miska ^a   Korhonen, Natalia ^a,b   Järvinen, Heikki ^a   Seppä, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Demography; Hunter gatherers; Niche modeling; Paleolithic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; ICE COVER; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALIA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ICE COVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84936803076     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1503784112     Document Type: Article

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