Bigger kill than chill: The uneven roles of humans and climate on late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions

Quaternary International

Volumn 431, Issue , 2017, Pages 216-222

  Araujo, Bernardo B A ^a   Oliveira Santos, Luiz Gustavo R ^a,c   Lima Ribeiro, Matheus S ^b   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre F ^b   Fernandez, Fernando A S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Extinction; Holocene; Human impacts; Megafauna; Pleistocene; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATING METHOD; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84960839644     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.045     Document Type: Article

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