Small mammal diversity loss in response to late-Pleistocene climatic change

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Small mammal diversity loss in response to late-Pleistocene climatic change [1]

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Many large mammals became extinct worldwide at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, around 12,000 years ago. Here, it is shown that smaller mammals, which often provide much more comprehensive fossil records than large mammals, were much less likely to respond to the Pleistocene

Publication Date:

10/06/2010

Author(s): essica L. Blois [2], Jenny L. McGuire [3], Elizabeth A. Hadly [4]

Source: Nature [5]

Vol:

465

Issue:

7299

pp:

771

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Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/small-mammal-diversity-loss-response-late-pleistocene-climatic-change

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