Cohesion and survivorship of a rodent community during the past 4 million years in southwestern Kansas

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-48

  Martin, R A ^a   Fairbanks, K B ^a  

^a MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnivore; Community similarity; Extinction; Immigration; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Quaternary; Red Queen; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001771181     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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