The utilisation of coprophilous fungal spores for discerning late Quaternary megaherbivore extinctions in Canada

• Main Author: Cocker, Scott
• Other Authors: Department of Earth Sciences
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Brock University 2020
• Subjects: Coprophilous fungi; Megaherbivore; Beringia; Pleistocene-Holocene transition; MIS 5a/4; Canada; Gravel Lake; Yukon; muskox; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10464/14913

Northern ecosystems are experiencing dramatic changes due to anthropogenically accelerated climatic warming. Understanding the impacts of this on fauna and flora is key to predicting the long-term sustainability of northern environments. This requires long-term data sets of ecosystem response to env...