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Fossils reject climate change as the cause of extinction of Caribbean bats

We combined novel radiocarbon dates of bat fossils with time-scaled ecological niche models (ENM) to study bat extinctions in the Caribbean. Radiocarbon-dated fossils show that late Quaternary losses of bat populations took place during the late Holocene (<4 ka) rather than late Pleistocene (>...

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Autores principales: Soto-Centeno, J. Angel, Steadman, David W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25610991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep07971

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