The changing role of mammal life histories in Late Quaternary extinction vulnerability on continents and islands

Biology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Lyons, S Kathleen ^a   Miller, Joshua H ^b   Fraser, Danielle ^a   Smith, Felisa A ^c   Boyer, Alison ^d   Lindsey, Emily ^e   Mychajliw, Alexis M ^f  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Extinctions; Human impacts; Life history; Mammals; Megafauna

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; ISLAND; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MASS EXTINCTION; PHYLOGENETICS; QUATERNARY; VULNERABILITY;

MAMMALIA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; ISLANDS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 85010065662     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0342     Document Type: Article

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