Ecological changes in coyotes (canis latrans) in response to the ice age megafaunal extinctions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Meachen, Julie A ^a   Janowicz, Adrianna C ^a   Avery, Jori E ^a   Sadleir, Rudyard W ^b  

^a DES MOINES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARNIVORY; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COYOTE; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HOLOCENE; ICE AGE; MANDIBLE; MASS EXTINCTION; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PLEISTOCENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VETERINARY ANATOMY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS; CANIS LATRANS;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COYOTES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOOD HABITS; MANDIBLE; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84956578166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116041     Document Type: Article

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