Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

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

Volumn 113, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 6388-6396

  Boivin, Nicole L ^a,b   Zeder, Melinda A ^c,d   Fuller, Dorian Q ^e   Crowther, Alison ^f   Larson, Greger ^a   Erlandson, Jon M ^g   Denhami, Tim ^h   Petraglia, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology   (Germany)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^h AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHEOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; MICROFOSSIL; NEOLITHIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; URBANIZATION; ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL);

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; ISLANDS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84973378625     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525200113     Document Type: Review

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