Historic and prehistoric human-driven extinctions have reshaped global mammal diversity patterns

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1155-1166

  Faurby, S ^a,b   Svenning, J C ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Extinction; Functional diversity; Macroecology; Mammals; Megafauna; Phylogenetic diversity

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; MACROECOLOGY; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENETICS;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84941024095     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12369     Document Type: Article

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