Scales of climatic variability and time averaging in Pleistocene biotas: Implications for ecology and evolution

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 458-463

  Roy, Kaustuv ^a   Valentine, James W ^b   Jablonski, David ^c   Kidwell, Susan M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLAPTES;

BIOTIC RESPONSE; CLIMATIC FLUCTUATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

EID: 0030485357     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(96)10054-9     Document Type: Review

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