Exploring the pattern of coordinated stasis: Simulations and extinction scenarios

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 127, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 135-145

  Baumiller, T K ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Hamilton Group; paleoecology; simulations

Indexed keywords

COORDINATED STASIS; DEVONIAN; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; PALAEOECOLOGY;

EID: 0030595826     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00091-0     Document Type: Article

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