Did humans cause the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene mammalian extinctions in South America in a context of shrinking open areas?
The last important –and possibly the most spectacular– turnover in South American mammal history occurred around the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary, when 100% of megamammal species and about 80% of large mammal species became extinct. In this paper, we consider as “megamammals” those with body mass o...
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| Autores principales: | Tonni, Eduardo Pedro, Cione, Alberto Luis, Soibelzon, Leopoldo Héctor, Haynes, Gary |
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| Formato: | Libro Capitulo de libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Springer
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/5370 |
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