The application of size-frequency distribution and energy flow in paleoecologic analysis: An example using parautochthonous death assemblages from a variable salinity bay

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 195-231

  Powell, Eric N ^a,b   Stanton Jr , Robert J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALAEOECOLOGY; PALAEOINGESTION; PALAEOPRODUCTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIZE/FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION;

USA, TEXAS, COPANO BAY;

EID: 0030222889     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(96)00006-5     Document Type: Article

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