The changing role of mammal life histories in Late Quaternary extinction vulnerability on continents and islands

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Biology Letters

• Publication date

  2016-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0342PMID 27330176PMCID PMC4938058
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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