Track: Ecology, Conservation, and Archaeology
Using GIS To Study the Responses of Mammals to Pleistocene Environmental Change in Asia
Nina JablonskiMatthew Whitfort , Nola Roberts-Smith
Environmental changes during the Pleistocene had profound impacts on the distributions of mammalian groups. Critical for many mammals were the southward latitudinal shifts of the tropical and subtropical zones. In this study, ArcInfo GIS was used to visualize and analyze changes in the patterns of distributions of selected mammalian genera through the Pleistocene in eastern Asia. These changes were then related to the biology of the genera and used as the basis for making preliminary predictive statements about the relative vulnerability of the groups to future environmental change.
Nina Jablonski
California Academy of Sciences
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