Evaluating the ecological architecture of major events in the Phanerozoic history of marine invertebrate life

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 167-170

  Droser, Mary L ^a   Bottjer, David J ^b   Sheehan, Peter M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE; ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; END PERMIAN EXTINCTION; LEVEL CHANGE; MARINE INVERTEBRATES; MASS EXTINCTION; SECOND LEVEL; TAXONOMIC CRITERIA; NON-ADDITIVE;

ECOSYSTEMS;

COLONIZATION; INVERTEBRATE; MASS EXTINCTION; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; SILURIAN; PALAEOECOLOGY; RADIATION;

EID: 0030820564     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0167:ETEAOM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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