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Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska

Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska

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Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska

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Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska

Publisher

United States: National Academy of Sciences

Journal title

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2016-08, Vol.113 (33), p.9310-9314

Language

English

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United States: National Academy of Sciences

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Contents

Relict woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) populations survived on several small Beringian islands for thousands of years after mainland populations went extinct. Here we present multiproxy paleoenvironmental records to investigate the timing, causes, and consequences of mammoth disappearance from St. Paul Island, Alaska. Five independent indica...

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Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4995940

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4995940

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ISSN

0027-8424

E-ISSN

1091-6490

DOI

10.1073/pnas.1604903113

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