The Eurasian mammoth distribution during the second half of the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene: Regional aspects

Quaternary International

Volumn 445, Issue , 2017, Pages 71-88

  Puzachenko, A Yu ^a   Markova, A K ^a   Kosintsev, P A ^b   van Kolfschoten, T ^c   van der Plicht, J ^c,g   Kuznetsova, T V ^d   Tikhonov, A N ^e   Ponomarev, D V ^f   Kuitems, M ^c   Bachura, O P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eurasia; Extinction; Holocene; Late Pleistocene; Mammuthus primigenius; Regional dynamics

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MAMMOTH; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EUROPE;

MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 85006716908     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.05.019     Document Type: Article

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