Extinction vulnerability and selectivity: Combining ecological and paleontological views

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 28, Issue , 1997, Pages 495-516

  McKinney, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction; Mass extinction; Phylogenetic; Risk proneness; Selectivity; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; EXTINCTION VULNERABILITY;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031450969     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.28.1.495     Document Type: Review

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