Ornithogenic soils and the paleoecology of pygoscelid penguins in antarctica

Quaternary International

Volumn 352, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 4-15

  Emslie, S D ^a   Polito, M J ^b   Brasso, R ^a   Patterson, W P ^c   Sun, L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEABIRD;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

AVES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 85027916639     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.07.031     Document Type: Article

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